hi, this is nancy l. t. hamilton and [withan italian accent] today i maka for you, wire stuff! hmmm...[kissing sound]. you're goingto love it! anyway, you ever want to make a pin stem or need a graduated wire for maybemaking some flowers and a stem, there's a million other things that i cannot think ofat the moment. but, i do have a brooch here, that does have a graduated wire, on here andi'm going to show you two methods to make graduated wire. but, there's more...we'regoing to be doing, we're going to be doing, i'm going to be doing and showing you howto draw down wire using um, the draw thingy, that i just forgot the name of...the drawbench,drawbench! and also, just using a vise and a draw plate to, like when you get 20 gaugewire and think, "oh my god, i really need
22 and i don't have any and it's going totake two days to get here". i'll show you how to make 22 gauge wire from your 20 gauge.so, that's what we're going to do today. get ready! start your engines! so, this versionof the graduated wire, that i'm going to show you, involves forging, um with hammers anda steel block. um, we're basically, what we're doing is thinning the metal down to a point.and we're going to try to do it in a even fashion. so, that one side is not flat andthe other side is rounded. so, you want your metal to be very straight and then annealit and then come back to, um, the hammering part because, we're going need to anneal thisoften so that we don't get. um, if you hammer too much without annealing it makes this likelittle flaps and they break off and they get
brittle and they can crack. there's all kindsof terrible, terrible little things that can happen. so, we're gonna hammer for a littlebit, anneal, hammer a little bit, okay? okay? so, um, i'm gonna start and your hammer shouldhave a nice shiny finish on it because whatever is on your hammer is going to be transferredto your metal. this doesn't look beautiful but, it's not bad. actually, needs a littlemending. and i'm just using this, what is this, a raising hammer? you can use any kindbasically. [hammering sounds]. i'm going to start from about back here and i'm gonna startpushing the metal up to the point. [hammering]. and rolling it, like this. it's one of thereasons you want it straight - so, it makes it easier to roll. [hammering] so, i'm gonnastart moving up. you wanna do the hammer blows
close together. [hammering]. so, you can seethe, in comparison, this is not tapered and this is. the taper is starting to develop.um, so, at this point i'm gonna go anneal it again and, um, we'll continue to work thisdown, in this direction to thin it. um, i did want to mention the reason that i chosethat heavier hammer was because it requires less work to move the metal in the initialphases. we're going to be switching to a planishing hammer after, um, i get the length and shapei want. so, i'm going to go anneal. so, now we're getting the shape of the uh, graduatedwire a little more fine tuned and i'm not going to be hammering as far back as wheni first started. i'm going to start working the middle to tip, at this point. okay? so,i'm just gonna do that for a minute and then
i'm gonna go anneal it. [hammering]. and youtry to, you're gonna look for spots that haven't been hammered. [hammering] and little flatareas. try and round them out. [hammering]. see, i'm working the tip a little more, atthis point. so, at this, i would go anneal this now and i'm probably going to do anothercourse, without you watching and then we'll talk about the last step on this and thenthe planishing of this and sanding. and we'll be done with this part! [strange sounds].so, you can see that the taper is getting more pronounced. i've switched to this heavierplanishing hammer. this fretz one is probably what i'm going to use as my final 'cause ithas a really nice polish on it. it's a lighter hammer. but, at this point, i want to putmore of a, more of a fine point on this - especially,
if you're going to use it for a pin back orsomething. so, we're going to pretty much work from this area forward and concentrate,in your head think: i'm making a really fine point, i'm making [laughter] a really finepoint and it will help guide you and visually, in your brain, on what you want to make andsee. [hammering]. the harder you hit this, the faster this goes. if you're a tapper,it's going to take longer than if you're a pounder. but, pounders - you don't want toget too hard - because you could flatten it and then you would have a harder time gettingit back into round again. so, somewhere between pounding and tapping. [hammering] i'm pullingthe tip forward. [hammering] pull that metal! [hammering] so, i'm going to check and makesure that i don't have square tips [hammering].
so, i want to keep that point nice and sharp![hammering] okay, so it's probably time for me to go anneal again. ah, so i'm probablygoing to do another course or two and then i'll come back and we'll show you with theshiny planishing hammer and then we'll be done with this part! so, i'm at a point wherei'm going to say that i have a sufficient, uh, taper on this. and you can see the differencebetween the two. uh, as far as gauge, i'll measure it afterwards and see what we wentfrom to, what we went to. so, now i'm going to just switch to my little, ah, planishinghammer here and kinda clean the whole thing up a little bit. [hammering]. and then i'mgoing to switch to a, my sanding discs. but, i'm going to save that to show you, um, usingthe rolling mill method so, we don't have
to repeat it twice. okay? so, i'm just goingto continue planishing. [hammering] and i'm smoothing the, trying to smooth the metaldown so there's a minimal amount of bumps and flat spots. so, there's less work thati have to do when i'm sanding. [hammering] you can go back and take your nap now! so,here we are at ye olde rolling mill for the second method of creating tapered wire. thistakes a lot less time. um, the things you have to watch out for is that it can flattenon one side and be very hard to flatten on the other side. um, it's just one of thosethings. you just have to keep trying to pulling it and fighting it because, it wants to flopback on the flat side. but, we're going to switch our angle up so, that you can see what'shappening here, from behind, as closely as
we can possibly pull it off. um, briefly,what i'm going to do is: i open the rolling mill up so that i can fit the wire in andthen i tighten it down, just so that it catches. and then, i'm going to open it up a tiny bitand pull it out. so, and then, tighten down just a little bit. so, it's slightly tighterthan holding it in place. that's going to be our first roll and you decide where youwant your taper to start. so, i'm going to start about midway, on this one. so, i willput this part in and roll the whole thing through, once in this direction, once in thisdirection and maybe once or twice more and then i'll have to anneal it. so, that's whati'm going to do now and we'll switch the angle in a minute. for the first part, we're notgoing to do that. so, right now, i'm just
going to start. so, i'm going to roll it through.it shouldn't be really hard to do it. and then flip it on its side and roll it throughagain. and then you can give it another tighten down and do the same thing. roll it through.and these are incremental, small uh, tightening downs. so, i'm kinda just half turning it.i mean quarter turning it to be able to start it. so, here we are. we're starting the, theum, i don't know why i can't remember that word today! tapering! so, i'm going to straightenthis out, a little bit, with a hammer. i want to try and keep it as straight as possibleand i'm going to go anneal it. okay? so, it's annealed. i'm tightening it down a littlemore. i'm going to run it through. this is really fun with lisa back here! because she'strying to fit into a tiny corner. uh, now
i've got a, i don't know if you can see itbut, i've got a flat edge there that i'm going to try and roll down. wait, is it that sideor that side? oops, sorry! [laughter] it's really tight, you guys. you should see this,it's pretty funny. and one more time. now, after i anneal this, ah, i'm going to um,stop rolling from midway and start rolling from, like about here, up. here we go in [grunt]and out. check it and see. come on, it wants to lay on its side. tighten it down a littlemore. oh, it really wants to go on that side! alright, i can pull with all my might to keepit from doing so. [laughter] [grunt, sigh] so, we're starting to get the shape of thetaper. now, i'm going to start working closer to the tip. and i'm just kinda giving it a,i don't know, a quarter of a swing in here.
it's starting to get smaller. come on. it'strying to flatten down on me again. ow! that was my elbow. okay, see, we're starting toget the graduation on it and um, what i'm going to do after i take this down, just alittle bit more, is use the planishing hammers to round up all these edges here and thenwe'll do that. okay, i'm just gonna pretty much work on the tip area here and turn it.[groan] a lot. trying to keep it from getting goofy on me. if it does get really flat andit's really hard to keep in the rolling mill, um, i would go ahead and use your hammer,planishing hammer or whatever. this is feeling like it's getting close to needing a littlehammering (should have said: annealing!). come on! you can see it's a little wider herethan it is over here so, i've got to try to
put it in without it twisting but, i'm goingto have to resort to pulling out the hammer on the tip here. so, [crash] that's the handleof the rolling mill! whoops! [laughter] okay, so i'm going to go anneal this and then we'regoing to meet back over at my um, steel block - if i can get this back on. so, um, the onethat we planished is a lot smoother and will take less sanding to clean up. but, with thesesanding discs, it doesn't take long. i'm using a rough one here and [scritching/grindingnoise] and putting it into the bench pin and turning it. so, that i can get an even cleanupon it. so, you're just rounding up any unrounded edges. putting a point on. hey! [grindingnoise] and then, um, i'll switch to, um, my medium disc - you don't have to watch thiswhole thing - i just wanted to briefly run
through it. you can do this with steel andstainless steel wire too for pin backs. preferably, stainless steel on the pin back. [grindingnoise] and, you're just basically go through and use the graduated...hi, safey nancy! uh,use your graduated discs down to your finest one until you achieve the finish that youwant. and, that's that on that. and we're going to start uh, doing the, whew, drawingwire. [choking sounds] oh, there goes my hair! i'm no longer fabulous! we're going to dodrawing wire next. so, now we're on the drawing wire part [said really fast]. i'll say thatslowly so, that you can understand me. drawing wire part. um, and you do need a taper onthis but, not as extensive of a taper as we put on the other wire. so, this one, i'm smiling- i'm trying to smile more in my videos. [laughter]
i look insidious - insipid! um, you can usethe sanding disc and i would graduate it about 10 millimeters - mas o menos - on the wire.so, about that far is good. and you don't need a huge taper on it but, you, what, ah,i'm not going to tell - i'll show you later. you can also, if you are fortunate enoughto have one of my favorite tools - the wolf belt sander - you can do this...[grindingnoise]. ah, it actually works better, down here. [grinding] and cut your taper that way.which is a lot faster but, it gets hot. so, you gotta watch the finger tips. so, thisis ready to be drawn through. it's been annealed um, and i will meet you over...ah, where dowe want to go? belize! let's go to belize! see you in belize. so, the first thing - seei'm smiling again - the first thing you wanna
do is ann - not anneal - well, after you'veannealed and pointed is to put a lubricant on 'em you're going to use bur life - liquidbur life. this draw plate that i have is filled with beeswax because that's what i used touse but, this is nice because it doesn't clog up the draw plate - which is what this is.and when you use the draw plate you don't want to put the wire through on the - thisthing is scary, i'm putting it down - um, you don't want to use, start it, on this side.this is the back of the thing - see all that funky beeswax. so, what you want to do is,find the hole that the wire fits the tightest in. so, i can't push it through anymore andit's just our tapered part coming out. so, i'm going to clamp this thing in here well.and these are called draw tongs. they have
a cheaper pair than this. i think it's like16 - 17 bucks at ole rio grande. so, what i'm going to do is, i'm going to grab thistip here and i'm gonna brace myself so, when it comes through, i don't fall backwards.so, you want a really good center of gravity and then you're going to just yank it through- like that. so, now we have our first pull uh, and this wire - i actually wrote it downso, that we'll compare later - uh, how many times it takes us. i can probably pull itone more time but, i've got to recoat with um, the liquid bur life. okay, we were at16 before, right? where the heck did it go? maybe we weren't in 16. were we in 16? onmy god. okay, we must have been at 16. so, now i've got to go, nope, that's 17. 18. goeighteen! and same thing! i'm only going to
do this twice before i anneal. there we go.so, now i'm going to go anneal this. um, what usually happens: if you're really pullingdown a lot of wire, is this ends up getting mangled and breaks off on you. so, don't besurprised if you have to re-uh-tip this thing. i'm going to anneal it and draw it down alittle more. smiling. kinda. [laugh] okay, so now um, i stopped using the draw platein the vise 'cause i wanted to show you how, what, how a draw bench works. this is a table-topdraw bench. for some reason, they are really hard to find now. i found one person that'sselling them and it's like twice what i paid for this. but, this is nice because i canstack it in the corner and i don't have to have this giant draw bench in my studio. um,so, the parts are: you've got this kind of
roller, cranky-thing here. you've got yourdraw tongs. here's your draw plate and our little wire back here. um, when i start ilet out some line [cranking sound] so, that it reaches and will access down to the end.like that! and you want to put your draw plate in with the holes, the front side of the drawplate, facing forward. it goes into these little slotty things here. and you also wantto lubricate your wire, like we did, um, with the other technique. same technique, differenttool. so, there, that's lubricated. and, um, that's how you set it up. okay so, now whatwe want to do is grab hold of our tip there, with our draw tongs. and i kinda moved thebar, tried to make it more centered when i pull. and now, i'm just going to crank. andit's, my hand's here because i'm holding the
pliers shut. and you just pull through. now,this is really great when you're pulling a lot of wire or when you're pulling reallyheavy wire because you don't have to rely on um, your brute strength or lack thereof.well, let out a little more. one more time. by the way, the two pulls through just thedraw plate in the vise brought it from a 16 to a 17, almost 17 gauge. so, it's going totake a few pulls if you want to get it down to 22. i'll check and see what this is after.so, basically, that's that on drawing, drawing wire. oh, another good thing about using thebenchtop or the the draw - oh my god, i'm so dense sometimes - draw bench! hhhhh! is,that you can pulling tubing through it is a easier too and i'm not going to show youhow to do that today because i've already
babbled on too long again! but, ah, it makesit a lot easier. i kept falling on the floor [laughter] when i was pulling wire and tubingthrough the vise and i figured the cost of this was worth saving my spine from anymoredamage, than it already has. so, that's why i bought this. i don't use it that often but,when i do, i'm very happy i have it! so. alright [zipping sounds]. smile, shut up. thanks forcoming. this is nancy l. t. hamilton saying: "don't forget to subscribe! otherwise, i justwon't feel wanted [crying sounds]. god, i'm needy. and also, just keep watching. go visitmy website: nancy.l - that's my email. nancylthamilton.com and you can email me at nancy.lt.hamilton@gmail.com.sayånara! boy, did i massacre that!
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