How to: Making Your Own Jump Rings
Published: November 5, 2007
Select a wooden dowel with a diameter that matches the inside diameter of the jump rings you want to make. Drill a hole through one end of the dowel. Insert the end of the wire into the hole to anchor it to the dowel. Wrap the wire around the dowel, keeping the coils tight against one another.
Cut the wire at the end that anchors the spring. Slide the spring to the opposite end of the dowel.
Secure the dowel against the V notch in your bench pin, and use a jeweler's saw with a 2/0 blade to cut a shallow, vertical slot at the end of the dowel to guide your blade as you cut the spring.
Hold the spring and dowel with your nondominant hand. Saw through the top of the spring, feeding the spring toward the slot in the dowel. Be careful not to cut the jump rings in half. |