I enjoy making my own silver head pins by melting a ball of metal at the end of a piece of wire. It’s fairly easy to do, and enables you to always have the length you need in the gauge you need for a project.
I use a slightly different technique depending on which type of [...]

I make a lot of jewelry using wire - in fact, nearly everything I make incorporates wire in some way, even if it’s just a wire head pin or an earwire.
One problem beginning wireworkers have is that when you cut a piece of wire, the ends feel sharp and jagged. To make wire jewelry look [...]

For people interested in learning to make jewelry from wire, here are a couple sites with very good tutorials:
Studio Heath
Eni Oken
These two artists make intricate jewelry from silver wire, and are very skilled at explaining their techniques, as well as photographing steps needed to create their jewelry.

Fusing fine silver is possibly the easiest thing that a jewelry maker can do with a torch. That is my opinion, of course, but in my experience, it’s a great way to begin working with a torch.
Because fine silver doesn’t get firescale, and doesn’t require flux, you really don’t have to do any clean-up after [...]

Resin is an alternative material that is gaining popularity with jewelry and mixed media artists. There are many different brands of resin available for artists and crafters to experiment with.
The basics are the same though - follow the mixing instructions given by the manufacturer (resins come with two parts - resin and hardener - [...]