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Do you love simple earrings made from fine materials? Here’s how to make a pair of hammer detail threader earrings!
I find it very satisfying to make my own jewellery using precious metals! This tutorial shows you how to turn some sterling silver wire into a gorgeous pair of threader earrings with a hammered detail at the front! This tutorial will outline all the tools you’ll need to make your earrings, as well as all the steps to follow to create your own special pair. Please note that this tutorial contains affiliate links.
You’ll need these tools and materials to make these earrings:
1: Two pieces of silver wire, each about 5cm long.
2: A steel hammering block.
3: A hammer. I used a jewellery hammer, but if you don’t have one, you can make use of a small household hammer.
4: Some cutting pliers to cut the wire to length.
5: Your flat nose pliers to straighten out the wire.
6: A pen or something round to use to shape your earrings.
7: A piece of sticky tape.
8: A file or sandpaper to smooth the ends of the wire. I used both to make sure my earrings weren’t too sharp.
Follow these steps to make your wire threader earrings with a hammer detail:
1: If your wire has any kinks, straighten the pieces out by gently squeezing them with your flat nose pliers. In this instance, it is better to use flat nose pliers that don’t have any texture on them.
2: Check that your pieces of wire are the same length. Trim accordingly to make sure they are equal using your cutting pliers.
3: Hold the wires on the steel block and hammer the ends until you have a texture you like.
Here are the hammered wires, the hammering is quite subtle. 4: Take the hammered wires, holding them together so that they are equal, and tape them to the pen or other round thing you are using to make the earring shape.
5: Gently bend the wires around the pen to form a curved arch shape.
6: Remove the tape and take the earrings off the pen. You can shape the earrings a bit more by squeezing the ends together gently.
7: File the ends of the earrings with the file and sandpaper to make sure that there are no sharp ends.
The earrings before the ends are filed and sanded. 
The earrings after filing and sanding. Now your earrings are complete and ready to wear! So cute! Here are some pics of the final product 🙂
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Here’s how to make some cute studs out of some wire!
These tiny studs are made using a hammer and some gold-fill wire, I love them!
You will need the following tools and materials to make your wire stud earrings.
1: Two short pieces of wire. I used some rose-gold fill wire.
2: A steel block.
3: A hammer.
4: Some plastic nose pliers for bending the wire.
5: A file.
Follow these steps to make your wire stud earrings:
1: Place the wires on the steel block and hammer one side of each wire flat.
2: File the ends of the wires so that they are smooth.
3: Fold the wires around the pliers. Make sure you leave the posts long enough to fit in your lobes. I had to adjust mine a little bit after I took this photo.
4: Add the earring backs and now you’re done! How cute are these little guys?
Here’s another pair I made using thicker gold-fill wire.
