{"id":256,"date":"2011-06-21T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/?p=256"},"modified":"2011-06-21T13:46:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T13:46:09","slug":"jewelry-arts-institutes-student-of-the-week-sheila-gudis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/2011\/06\/21\/jewelry-arts-institutes-student-of-the-week-sheila-gudis\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewelry Arts Institute’s Student of the Week- Sheila Gudis"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"\"$ <\/a> Congratulations to our latest Student of the Week- Sheila Gudis.\u00a0 These beautiful dangling earrings depend on one key element-jumprings to bring everything together.\u00a0 In all my years of teaching, I don’t think any one topic induces such fear and loathing in students as jumprings.\u00a0 I thought maybe I would offer a few tips to make things easier in tackling this jewelry necessity.<\/p>\n

First a simple human truth- what we fear we avoid.\u00a0 Students avoid making them at all costs so they will try to use the lousy two they have already made.\u00a0 The key to making jumprings is to make LOTS of them and then choose the best ones.\u00a0 We usually have students wrap annealed wire around steel rods tightly and then saw.\u00a0 The trick to wrapping tightly is to clamp the end of the wire and the steel rod in a bolted table vise so you can pull tightly and maintain tension.\u00a0 Not to mention if you have only two it is almost a certainty you will drop and lose one.\u00a0 The jewelry gods are tricksters.\u00a0 Once you make sure your jump rings are threaded through and butted back together tightly, use the smallest amount of solder possible.\u00a0 If you cut what you think the proper amount of solder is probably you should cut it into fourths and use one fourth.\u00a0 Solder lumps are a real pain to clean up and never look quite right.\u00a0 One last tip for dangling earrings.\u00a0 After you solder the jumprings closed, squeeze them into an oval shape.\u00a0 Oval jumprings still let your elements move but keep them oriented to the front, where you want to see your earrings.\u00a0 Round jumprings let your earrings move too much from side to side so that your hard work is harder to see from the front.\u00a0 Sheila followed all of these guidelines to make beautiful dangling earrings.\u00a0 Well Done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"