[Jewelry making - Article 01115] - Re: [Orchid] Cutting Jump Rings

[timhonn]

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    On the subject of making jump rings. I use a much easier, at least
    for me, process. 

    1.Take your large coil of wire and hang it beside your vice(make
    sure you use the plastic covers on the grip. Having uncoiled a
    couple of meters of wire grip it in the vice so that the end is
    free. 

    2. Insert your rod of the right diameter into a battery powered had
    drill, tighten down well. The drill should have a moment realease in
    case you get caught in the wire.. Put the machine in reverse and
    insert the end of your wire inbetween the ends of the chuck, and run
    the drill slowly backward(or forwards depending on if you want right
    or left hand rings). When you get a couple of turns on the rod, take
    an open grip on the other end and increas the speed to what you feel
    safe useing DO NOT USE A DRILL POWERED FROM THE MAINS. When the rod
    is as full as you want clip it off and pull it off of the rod,
    carefully as not to bend it. Contine making coils untill you have
    enough. For making 4mm rings I use a rod that is about 35 cm and
    make a coil of about 30 cm, that equeals 300 rings if you are using
    1 mm wire(about 20 gage). 

    3. Sawing-- Take a rod of equeal size and put it in your vice, then
    take an ordinary hack saw and make a cut in the middle of the end of
    the rod. Cut straight down for about 2-3 cm. You now have one end of
    your rod divided. Remember this slit or slot should be wider then the
    saw blade thickness you will be using later.  Remove it from the vice
    and slide one of your coils. Clamp this down in the vice leaving
    about 15cm above the grip, make sure you have positioned the rod so
    that it is at least 2-3 mm higher then the coil. If you turn you vice
    just tight enough your rod can be move up and down and turned when
    the grip is just right,it sould not be so lose as to move on its own
    or fall out, that way you do not have to repossition it every time.
    Then using a jewelers saw, or a little hack saw. Cut your rings
    keeping the saw at a rather steep angle as not to cut through to the
    back.  You can generally cut about 10 jump rings before removing
    them.REMEMBER  THE TEETH MUST BE BACK TOWARD YOU NOT FORWARD, that
    way the saw pulls the coil tighter togeather and not apart. I find
    that using a small hack saw which I sand off the side edges of the
    teeth,I only get a slight increase in the width of the cut and can
    cut jump rings much faster. I have timed from start to finis and can
    avarage 20-30 rings a minute. When the coil is down to a couple of cm
    long I lay it aside untill I have more of the same size and then put
    them on the rod at the same time 

    4. Any questions can be e-mailed to me if you like, timhonn AT msn.com 

I live in northern Sweden.
August 25 2004 

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