How to Attach Wire for Handcrafted Earrings

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Ella Seltzer, from Expert Village. Right, the next stage is to put the ear wires and add them on to the components, it’s a pretty easy step. So here are examples There are three different examples here in different ear wire an antique copper, depending on where you buy your supplies from, you could probably get more, this is a leaver back which is favored by a famous jewelry designer who worked with antique copper alot. And it’s called leaver back because the back works a leaver. Some people find this more comfortable to wear, and it stays in the ear better than a regular fish hook, this is an example of the fish hook, it is the most common type of ear wire and it just slips through the ear and it doesn’t have anything to keep it I place although some indications some people put a butterflies in the back of it and this is just another style of leaver back, I’m sure there are plenty more available. I thought this one was probably the most appropriate because it has a flower, which reflects the flower in the earring. This lever back has a loop here if you can see where the component can be inserted and if you look very closely there is a broken line here in the top and which means that the loop is already open all you have to do is gently take your pliers and pull it apart like this now you have a gap. And then you slide to open it out a little bit more, all you have to do is fit the piece in, and then close it again. Just got to be a bit careful not to move this metal to much it is quite a thin piece of metal and can break off. "