Buy your kit here: https://www.anniepennington.com/store/p140/ColorfulCalyxEarringsKit
Add a burst of color to your ears! This kit includes the raw materials needed to make these earrings (in any length up to 4-1/2 in. long!), and full-color, easy-to-follow instructions with more than 24 crisp, clear photos. Additional basic tools are required, so be sure to check out the longer description, below, for a list of everything you need—if you’ve done any metalwork before, you’ll likely have most of these on hand. Bead sizes and materials vary.
Included in Kit
Beads: 2
Copper washer, 2
Elongated copper floral blanks, 2
Sterling silver wire: multiple gauges
Full-color instructions with step-by-step photos
Additional tools & materials needed
Abrasive paper
Bud bur, approx. 1.78mm (opt.)
Dapping block with punches
Drill bits: #61, various sizes up to #50 (1.78mm)
Files: half-round hand or needle file
Fine-tip permanent marker
Flex shaft or rotary tool
Flush cutters rated for 14-gauge wire
Hammers/mallets: planishing, chasing (opt.), rawhide mallet
Liver of sulfur
Painter’s tape
Pliers: nylon-jaw pliers (opt.), roundnose, two pairs chainnose or flatnose
Pumice powder (opt.)
Scrap wood
Scribe
Snap-on sanding disc and mandrel, fine (optional)
Soldering setup (opt.): torch, cross-locking tweezers, third hand base (opt.), heat-proof work surface, flux, copper tongs, pickle in a pickle pot
Steel bench block
Straight edge
Texturing tools (opt.)
Post time: Jun-19-2017