Making a Jewelry Wire Bail Finding --
A Beginner's Jewelry Making Technique -- Page 1

Some of our instructions are easy for us to prepare.  We often find that we can sit down and using practice wire make a jewelry wire component the first time and be satisfied with the results.  Rarely, we will find that making a nice jewelry wire component takes much more effort.  This is one of those skills where our first seven attempts at making this jewelry wire finding failed.  We have been working on this skill for about 4 months.  What this means is that the approach to making a bail finding like the ones shown left and right may seem to be obvious, but what we actually found is that it isn't as easy to figure out how to do this as it might seem.

With all of the above said on how difficult it was to figure out how to make a bail finding, should one assume it is that difficult to make?  Here is the good news.  Once we figured out how to do it, we learned that this is an advanced beginners jewelry making skill.  Determining what the steps are to make this finding was difficult.  Actually following those steps is relatively easy. 

As with all the skills we discuss on our web site, we strongly suggest that everyone practice making this jewelry wire finding with practice wire several times before cutting your good wire.  You will get better at this with practice.  We did. 

Please visit Page 2 to view our instructions for making a jewelry wire bail finding.
 

Skills Required:

• Ability to cut wire with with a flush cutter.
• Ability to straighten wire with nylon jaw pliers.
• Ability to use our WigJig tools to make wire components.