Does anyone know how to wire wrap a marble? I need a loop on both ends to attach it to a chain. Since there is no hole, I am stumped.

SueW

you need to make a cage. see Mark Lareau's book, "All Wired Up" for instructions.

 Great dvd for doing wire wrapped marbles... yes... it's my dvd. It's volume 3.

 http://www.createapendant.com/wirewrappingdvds.htm

Matthew
 

Sue, let me know if you find something... I need to do the same! I dont have access to buy anything right now, so I'm open to anything free or buy and receive by email(for instructions) or just ideas to look at and figure out. I have found this

http://www.enioken.com/journal/2006/05/lantern-pendant-with-tumbled-stone.html 

but I don't know if it will work for me... my client wants the marble to be as visible as possible, and this idea does cover it up a lot. 

Mathew, I found this on your etsy store, would you say this type of wrapping is very safe? I would not be making it interchangeable, but I want to know if the marble wont fall off. My client likes to take this marble (which is a huge crystal ball, like 25-30 mm) when she goes on hikes and to waterfalls and stuff, so it needs to be really secure. Also, what size wire would you recommend? 18 ga?

Thanks! 

The marble will not fall out. It is interchangeable by nature but you don't have to change out the marbles if you don't want to. Being interchangeable is just more marketable and appealing to customers. Since the marble you are wrapping is bigger than usual... I would go 20 or 18 gauge. You can use dead soft or medium hard.

Matthew 

Thanks Matthew! Have you ever thought about making smaller tutorials available via email? 

Here is a great tutorial for free! From studioheath just scroll a small bit down, it will be the first tutorial you see, called the cage pendant. It is very pretty and can be very versatile. Enjoy!

Here is the link:

http://www.studioheath.com/tutorials.php 

 Thanks duckie! I had that one already and I had forgotten about it! It worked perfect for my trial version and it lend itself well for a variation that will make it my own.

Eni has this one, too.

http://www.enioken.com/jewelry/cagedbead-008.html

Check out how mine came out!

unique and beautiful! 

I just found this if you are still interested great tutorial.

http://www.studioheath.com/tutorials/tute001cagepend/tute001cagependant.pdf

Hi Sue,

Very good advice was given here. I've read everything.

I was thinking of another way to turn a tumbled stone with no holes in it into a pendant.

This involves wires and a bit of soldering, and it's quite an easy project.

Here are pictures of a couple of pendants I made.  If you're interested, I'll post for you instructions of how to make it (wrote it for a member in another forum).

 Hanna

Thanks Hannah and everyone. All of your help is much appreciated!

SueW

You can download a complete pattern for this project plus print out and use about 30 more plus look at over 100 streaming videos for about the same price as a cheeseburger on my new streaming video site.

Preston

www.wirejewelrybootcamp.com

Outstanding Job On This.  Would love to try this with Sea Glass but haven't a clue where to start.

Some how I ran across a picture of your wraped , tumbled stone. you said that you have instructions on how to do this. I am new at this jewelry making, (that's why i am roaming the web) I would like to get a copy of these instructions

Dave

dlenheim@hotmail.com