HEMATITE has been used for many centuries as a GROUNDING device. It operates as a sort of AUTOMATIC GROUNDING MECHANISM. Grounding & Centering are two vital parts of your Work on Self. Look on the internet for more information about Grounding, and experience the power of HEMATITE yourself, by wearing your very own Jewels of Ancient Lands HEMATITE GROUNDING FORCE Earrings!Here’s what you should have received in your kit, each packaged in its own zip-lock baggie, tagged for quick identification — check each item off this list to make sure you have everything you’re supposed to have in the kit:
- TWO Guaranteed Genuine 10mm HEMATITE BEADS.
- Four 3mm modern factory-made .925 sterling silver “spacer” beads.
- Four 6mm handmade modern .999 fine silver Bali style fancy spacer beads.
- One labeled package containing 12 modern .925 sterling silver wires, about 1″-1.5″ (30mm – 40mm) long, ready for clipping & bending.
- One labeled package containing 2 modern .925 sterling silver .22 gauge wires, about 4″, or 100mm long, to form the Core Wires.
- One labeled package containing 2 modern .925 sterling silver .20 gauge silver wires, about 4″, or 100 mm long, from which you’ll make the hand-made ear-wires, the crowning touch of a fine set of ancient style earrings.
The fancy Bali style beads were handmade over a charcoal brick with a blowpipe, and the technique, which Lily Nova and I have used to produce many hundreds of granulation beads, is rapidly being lost in the mire of modern technological junk.
The wires were all cut with one end flush, so you don’t have to re-cut the wires, just bend them at the flush-cut end. The other end will be clipped or hammered, so don’t worry about cutting both ends; it isn’t necessary, and takes off more silver weight than you want to lose.
Always save your sterling silver clippings — they are worth money, and you will be amazed at how fast the scrap adds up, even when your wires are pre-sized to fit the project requirements.
The tools required for this project are:
- Round needlenose pliers.
- Flush-cutter, medium small.
- 2-ounce ball-pein hammer.
- small desk type anvil, vise or steel hammering block.
- rat-tail file or ring file, very fine.
- Opti-Visor goggles if additional visual help is needed. Choose your lens correction carefully; don’t get more magnification than you actually need. These lenses can be changed as your vision gets progressively worse from age.
- Jeweler’s polishing cloth. Make sure it does NOT contain red polishing rouge.
First we start with the Core Element. Make your Core with the .22 gauge wires provided in the kit. Take your time and make them right. Using your needlenose pliers, gently COAX the wire into the shapes you want them to be, and using your flush-cutters, trim the wire after making the loop and winding the wire back on itself, as shown above.
Holding the .22 gauge wire Core Element straight up and down with the open end up and the loop at the bottom, load one 3mm bead, one Bali Style FANCY bead, then ONE of your HEMATITE beads onto the Core wire as shown, then add a Bali Style FANCY bead, then a 3mm round bead, and you’re ready to close the top loop.
The packet indicates that the .22 gauge is intended to be your Core Wire, and the packet of slightly heavier, slightly thicker .20 gauge wire is meant for ear-wires, so be careful not to mix them up. They don’t work backwards, meaning that you shouldn’t get them mixed up; this is important.
Make certain that there are no sharp points where you cut and trimmed the wire. Be sure to trim the wire so that the FLUSH side remains and the SHARP side is removed; keep the FLAT side of your flush-cutters to the FINISH or client-side of the wire. Feel the end to determine if you’ve done it right. If not, you’ll have to trim it slightly once again, leaving less silver wire to work with, so be careful the first time.
Don’t RUSH through the project; that’s a sure way to louse it up. A few seconds won’t make any dent in any endeavor.
Make BOTH Core Elements at this time, then proceed to the next stage:
Deftly make a nice, generous, roundish loop at the top, about 6mm from the top of the HEMATITE bead, then wind the wire back down from the loop down, toward the HEMATITE bead, making the opposite end of the lower loop.
Be super-careful not to put too much pressure on the HEMATITE Core Bead. Try to maintain a weaving trance-dance state during this maneuver. You can use my trance-dance CDs to achieve the right work-rhythms.
Keep in mind that you are using the same tools that YOU used almost 7,000 years ago, except that instead of being made of bronze, they’re now made of modern steel, so they last longer and don’t need to be repaired every few days, as the much softer ancient bronze instruments demanded. Aren’t you glad of that?
The techniques you are using are also the exact same ones that YOU used some 7,000 years ago, and you’ll find that if you perform these tasks at an outdoor event, you will not need electricity to run your tools. Everything is done by hand, with tools that were in common daily use back in 4,500 B.C. and even earlier.
Now you’re going to form the ear-wires directly onto the Core Element. Thread the .20 gauge wire — that’s the slightly thicker wire — through the top loop of the Core Element, so that about 40mm, or 1 1/2″, sticks out the other end. Make sure you have the right wire!!!
Make a nice large loop, enough to allow good swing and tilt, and finish the loop by winding the wire back onto itself, as shown below:
You should now have the ear-wires attached to the tops of the Core Elements on both earrings, and you’re ready to to go the next step, where you’ll make and attach your paddles, articulated bangle drops on the bottom of your earring elements, as follows:
Open your packet of .22 gauge short wires. There should be 12 of them. You only need 10, five for each earring, so there’s a little room here for error. If you get all 12 right, keep two, you may need them another time.
Remember that ALL scraps, all trims and cuts, should be saved, and many of them will be long enough to make something out of it, once you know how, and all the info is available FREE on JewelsOfAncientLands.com. It also appears in book form, if you want it in hard-copy.
Working your way from the sharp tip toward the loop, hammer gently and let the weight of the 2 oz. hammer do all the work for you. Keep the flat of the hammer exactly even with the vise, anvil or steel strike-plate, so the silver doesn’t get dinged from the edge of the hammer-head.
As you hammer the very end, you’ll note that if you did it right, the sharpness will vanish, and the end will form a perfect tear-drop shape. Following the wire up toward the loop, GENTLY tap it to help it keep its shape. Do NOT flatten the wire except at the bottom, the formerly sharp end, which presumably now has a nice rounded tip with no sharp edges.
Open the loop of the paddle to the SIDE, not outward. Do not make the loop larger by doing this operation. The loop stays the same size, and the end moves a bit to the left as you attach it to the bottom loop of the Core Element.
Try to get all the paddles facing the same way, if you can figure out how to do that, but don’t worry over it, unless you’re a fanatic for neatness. The paddles work either way they’re put on, frontward or backward.
You’ll put FIVE paddles on each earring, keeping back two for future use. Do not attempt to put six paddles on the bottom loop. It will look overcrowded, and three aren’t enough to make a good flashpoint on the earring.
Be sure to check ALL the places on BOTH earrings where sharp points might still be lurking, and polish them smooth with a Dremel and some Green Jeweler’s rouge, or GENTLY and SLOWLY file them down with your EXTRA-FINE or FINE rat-tail or ring file, taking care not to score the metal as you do this cleanup operation.
Now use your Jeweler’s Polishing Cloth to get them sparkling, and they’re ready to sell.
Congratulations! You have just made a powerful HEMATITE GROUNDING Earring Set! Whether you wear your HEMATITE Earrings or sell them, you will never forget this life-changing event.
STERLING SILVER HEMATITE EARRING KIT:
RETAIL … $35.00 includes everything needed to make one pair of HEMATITE Earrings in SOLID .925 sterling silver.
WHOLESALE … $17.50 for the entire kit as stated above. No further discounts on kits. SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY.
You can order as many HEMATITE EARRING Project Kits as you want, at $17.50 per kit, with a 5 kit minimum to get the wholesale price. Plus, think about it — you’re getting a CASH REBATE in the form of .925 sterling silver AND a set of exotic beads! What a great way to engage Powerful Quantum Entanglement with your own very ancient past!!!
See You At The Top!!!
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