Tips & Techniques

Jewellery Making Tips and Techniques

(As recommended by our customers)

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• If your drill bit breaks in your piece of work while drilling, place your piece of work in a cup of safety pickle (ideally warm) and leave for a few hours or overnight until the drill bit has dissolved away.  Tamara Gomez
  
  
• Colour code your beads. I used drawers and used stickers to represent the main colours of the beads. Time saver indeed!  Emma Elizabeth Jewellery
  
  
• Don't throw away your mis-shaped wire components, they can be linked with others to make a charm bracelet, dangles on a necklace, or if there are two of the same - for earrings.  Dani Ronke Adekunle
  
  
• Don't throw away buttons do as your grandmother did and have a button pot and look what you could make if you save up a few (CLICK to see picture)  Sara Elvin
  
  
• Steal your boyfriend/girlfriend/flatmate's guitar plectrum. Wrap it in fine sandpaper and you have the perfect sanding tool to get in to those tricky spaces. Plus they come in various thicknesses and flexibility. Super Useful.  Sarah Burns