[Jewelry making - Article 00168] - Re: [Orchid] Making tapered wire

[Jim Malone]

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    Jason, I regularly have need of a tapered wire and this is how I do
    it: Anneal the piece first Pickle and clean Using the square end of my
    rolling mill, I begin rolling a decreasingly smaller amount of the
    wire through decreasingly smaller squares in the mill, so that I end
    up with a piece that looks somewhat like a square radio antenna( the
    type that collapses on itself). So, if my piece is 2.5mm at the large
    end, I would roll 80% of that wire through the squares to reduce it
    to 2mm. I then roll 80% of the newly formed 2mm section through and
    reduce to perhaps 1.6mm. I continue like this until I have reduced
    the small end to the desired size. The next step in this time
    consuming process is to draw this wire through decreasing size holes
    in the drawplate to knock off the square corners. The last thing I do
    is roll file the piece in a groove in my bench pin to smooth the
    taper. I must admit that I am usually working with 12 ga BS
    wire...not 6mm at the butt end! I think the technique would work, but
    the drawplate portion of the process might be difficult without a
    good sturdy drawbench. Good Luck 

Jim Malone
Diamond Point Metalsmiths


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