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    Hippy Crystal Twist Materials: This one is a crystal about 2 ¾ inches long. It is a sodilite stone cut like a crystal. 2 wires: I used 20ga round soft but you can use 24 ga. and double the wires up. Use two on each side. For this stone I used 12” for each wire. Tools: Cutters and flat or needle nose piers. Read the whole thing through before you start wrapping. Lets start: Find the middle of the two wires and move back a short ways. It depends on the diameter of the piece you are doing. You wan

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    Hippy Crystal Twist Materials: This one is a crystal about 2 ¾ inches long. It is a sodilite stone cut like a crystal. 2 wires: I used 20ga round soft but you can use 24 ga. and double the wires up. Use two on each side. For this stone I used 12” for each wire. Tools: Cutters and flat or needle nose piers. Read the whole thing through before you start wrapping. Lets start: Find the middle of the two wires and move back a short ways. It depends on the diameter of the piece you are doing. You wan

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    Wire-Wrapping Tutorial - Hippy Twist

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    Hippy Crystal Twist Materials: This one is a crystal about 2 ¾ inches long. It is a sodilite stone cut like a crystal. 2 wires: I used 20ga round soft but you can use 24 ga. and double the wires up. Use two on each side. For this stone I used 12” for each wire. Tools: Cutters and flat or needle nose piers. Read the whole thing through before you start wrapping. Lets start: Find the middle of the two wires and move back a short ways. It depends on the diameter of the piece you are doing. You wan

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    Hippy Crystal Twist

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    This one is a crystal about 2 inches long. It is a sodilite stone cut like a crystal. 2 wires: I used 20ga round soft but you can use 24 ga. and double the wires up. Use two on each side. For this stone I used 12 for each wire. Tools: Cutters and flat or needle nose piers. Read the whole thing through before you start wrapping. Lets start: Find the middle of the two wires and move back a short ways. It depends on the diameter of the piece you are doing. You want to have enough wire on the long side to go around the stone and be in the middle of the wires. Make a twist of the two wires here. You need to make at least three but can make more. Twist the shorter of the two wires. Not the longer two.

    Push the longer wires (the bottom two in this picture) out like in the picture. This is where the stone will go. Hold the two longer wires and push the twisted wire up so the twist will lay against the stone and the two wire are on each side of the stone and pointing to the other side of the stone. They should look like an L. Place the twist against the stone on one side and wrap the two longer wires around the stone. This is the hardest part of the wrap. You will have to work at this to get it right. If you wrap the two wires all the way until they cross and lay more or less flat on the stone it will be easier. Then twist those wires together like the other side. Push the twist up against the stone. This is what it should look like.

    Now you just shape is up so that it looks like you want it to look. Make a few more twists if you want to. Next you spread the wires so two go to the front and two to the back.

    You need to hold the twists that you have already made where you want them to stay. And keep pushing the stone down into the opening. Now twist the front two wires. You need to push the two wires, that you are twisting, from each side to the front. That keeps the wires close to the stone while you twist. Should look like this.

    You just keep going like this until it is the way you want it.

    At the top you twist the back two wires and bend them in a loop toward the back. Bring the front two wires around to the back and wrap them around the loop at the bottom to hold the loop in place. At the very bottom of the loop you may have to tuck the ends of the loop wires in some place to hide them and make them secure.

    Although this is just two wires instead of four you can see what it looks like. The two wires on the left would really be the two wires from the front of the stone. The loop would be from the two in the back. You just bring the front ones around and wrap around the loop. The bottom of the look needs to be tucked under a wire on the back Each stone will be different so you just have to play with that. Now some tips. When you are twisting the wires be sure to twist one wire over the other wire. If you just twist one wire all the time you will wrap one wire around a wire that is straight. Does that make sense? Its a little like braiding. You do one wire and then another wire. Try some practice wire and see what I mean. If the twists next to the stone are not tight enough you may need to use the flat nose pliers to tighten it. Make sure the wires are spread apart a little before you get a hold of them with the pliers. Because of the reason I just mentioned in the first tip. You have to be careful not to twist too tight or your wire will break. GRRR! When you are making the first loop for the stone to set in you need to find a spot for the wire so it will hold the stone. You notice on this one I put the loop down on the point of the stone where it was smaller than the rest of the stone. A straight sided stone like this one has to have something to hold the wire down. You cant get it tight enough to hold on the straight sides. The soft wire works best for these wraps and they harden when you twist them. Using two smaller ga wires works well on smaller stones or where you want a more delicate look. Hope you have fun with this and let me know what you think.

    You can use one wire on some stones. The crystal on the far right is just one wire. You have to find a spot for the first loop around the stone that will hold. That is the most important problem with the single wire wrap. Then again at the top you have to have a dip in the stone to catch the wire.

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