The other day I bought some craft wire and was expecting it to be the same as my usual wire i.e very flexible, easy enough to bend when attahing the clasp for a bracelet/necklace etc. However this wire is very stiff and I am unsure what to do with it now. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I could use it for as I cant use it for jewellery?
You might still be able to use it for jewelry, just in a different way. I have some stiffer wire I use for jewelry. It bends, but not easily. There are tricks to bending it. Email me with specifics if you want more help on that. Click on my avatar for an email link, and tell me what kind of wire it is, any names on the packaging, the material, the gauge, and any of that good stuff that you know. Then, I can tell you how to handle it.
Otherwise, if it really and truly won’t work for jewelry, have fun and get creative. A friend got some 9ga or 10ga copper wire and used it for ornamental plant stakes, for example. It was really too big for jewelry, but looks great in potted plants.
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thejanith
2010 Mar 17 1You might still be able to use it for jewelry, just in a different way. I have some stiffer wire I use for jewelry. It bends, but not easily. There are tricks to bending it. Email me with specifics if you want more help on that. Click on my avatar for an email link, and tell me what kind of wire it is, any names on the packaging, the material, the gauge, and any of that good stuff that you know. Then, I can tell you how to handle it.
Otherwise, if it really and truly won’t work for jewelry, have fun and get creative. A friend got some 9ga or 10ga copper wire and used it for ornamental plant stakes, for example. It was really too big for jewelry, but looks great in potted plants.
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been making wire and bead jewelry for several years
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