Posts tagged with 'pliers'

  • Little Jewelry Tools for Big Jobs

    POSTED BY TAMMY POWLEY, SEPTEMBER 18 2007 09:00 AM | PERMALINK

     

     

    Beadalon may be known mainly for its beading wire, but it also manufactures a kinds of other jewelry making goodies, such as tools. The company recently came out with this handy little tool kit, which includes 4 pairs of Beadstrom pliers (semi-flush cutter, round-nosed pliers, flat-nosed pliers, and chain-nosed pleirs). While they have the same pliers sold individually as well as with longer handles, for me, I prefer smaller handles with most of my tools because they fit my hands better.

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  • Jewelry Then & Now

    POSTED BY TAMMY POWLEY, SEPTEMBER 04 2007 10:17 AM | PERMALINK

     

     

    I totally stole this idea from some fellow jewelry bloggers I know who have been looking back at some of their original "creations," and taking stock in how their techniques and design skills have grown over the years.

    Pictured above are a pair of earrings I made way, way back when, probably late 80s/early 90s. This is before I discovered round-nosed pliers. In fact, this is before I ever saw a pair, and yes, I actually sold earrings like this with these horrible loops! Yikes!

     

     

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