Copper Hardware Store Earrings

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Copper Hardware Store Earrings

by Lynda Carson
(Spring Valley, CA)

Hardware store copper washers

I recently received several tips from Making Jewelry Now readers about Harbor Freight as a source for copper washers. They sell a box of 110 various sized washers for $9.99.

What a treasure chest of jewelry possibilities!

For the earrings pictured, I hammered two washers, added pretty amethyst Czech beads, and handmade ear wires - the wire was from another hardware store.

Dipped them into liver of sulphur solution, and buffed the surfaces with OOOO steel wool.

FYI - Google Harbor Freight for store locations - or they also sell online. They do not have copper tubing or wire.

Lynda Carson
Fresh Baked Designs

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Copper Hardware Store Earrings

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Free copper wire source
by: Diane

A free source for pieces of copper wire, although not necessarily an abundant source, is residential job sites. The electricians do not pick up pieces they have to cut off of longer pieces !! A rare but plentiful source is a house being rewired and replumbed. Recently I had this experience and I instructed all the workers to save all the copper wire and discarded pipes. What a bundle I ended up with !

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