For Christmas, Santa left me an interesting little gadget. As I happen to love gadgets, I had fun exploring this one.
Over the past several months, I’ve complained ad nauseum about not being able to find consistently made jump rings. It’s rather painful to be partway through some great project, run out of rings, get the exact same rings form somewhere you’ve bought them from repeatedly…and discover that something has change.
I’ve run into everything from rings measured across the wrong diameter to a company deciding they want to reinvent traditional gauge settings.
It’s been so frustrating that I’ve almost walked out on knitting chains, which is what originally brought me into serious jewelry design.
Santa must have heard my cries, because my new gadget is a travel-sized jump ring maker! There are four mandrels (that I still need to measure) and a weird shaped hand-crank base. As long as wire companies remain consistent with their wire gauges, I’m set!
I can hardly wait to give it a try!
