How to Prevent Twists in Jewelry Wire

Prevent twists in your jewelry wire makes projects much easier to accomplish. With a few organizational steps and the proper way of uncoiling wire from spools, you can easily avoid twist in the jewelry wire. Even if twists or kinks do occur in the wire, there are steps you can take to gently remove the twists from the wire.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Keep your wire organized. This includes both the wire you have on spools and the spare bits that you have individually. For your straight lengths of wire use a small box to keep the wire together and reduce the possibilities of the wire getting kinked and twisted. For the spools, keep the wire tightly wound on the spools and tape the loose end of the wire after you are finished with each project. This will keep the wire firmly wrapped around the spool.

2. Pull the wire straight off the spool. This means pulling it so that it uncoils from the spool in a basically straight piece. Don't allow the wire to roll off the side in coils. This can cause major kinks in the wire.

3. Straighten the wire if the wire does become twisted or kinked. For this you will need a pair of nylon pliers and a pair of straight nosed pliers. To straighten the wire, all you do is take one end of the wire with the straight nosed pliers and then the nylon pliers. With the straight nosed pliers, pull the wire through the nylon pliers. The nylon pliers will straighten the wire easily.

4. Don't pull on the wire if it is coiled. This will cause tight kinks and twists in the wire that are difficult to remove. If this does happen, use a pair of round nosed pliers to untwist the kink in the wire and then use the technique in step three to straighten the wire again.

Tips & Warnings

• Old cardboard jewelry boxes work great to hold all the spare and odd pieces of wire that you have.

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on 11/28/2008 This article really speaks to me. I have a problem with brass wire on spools. No matter what I do, the wire springs open and unravels anytime I try to cut a piece. This only happens with 26 and 24 gauge brass wire. Any suggestions?