Ronna Sarvas Weltman’s article about cool tools in the Summer Issue of Step by Step Wire Jewelry features several interesting gadgets to help you with your wire and metal work – my favorite is the Cool Tool Chick’s metal bender.
Use the pressure of your thumbs to easily bend and shape metal into bracelets and rings without altering the existing patterns and textures. Make a parallel bend without rotating your piece. With this amazing tool, you can easily shape anticlastic, synclastic, corrugated and other surface designs without hammers, stakes or mandrels.
For more bending options Ronna sent along these links:
Any of these tools will help you craft a bracelet blank that you can cover with polymer clay. I’d love to see the bracelets that you make using one (or more) of Ronna’s picks!
