Boy I needed this information. I am designing a cuff to pull my ear forward. Then I can hear better like when I put my cuffed hand behind my ear. Lots of older people will hear better without hearing aids. You helped me again. Thanks, it means so much to me. Patty Clark
Matt you are always spitting knowledge and you have no idea you're doing it. You'll say something about jewelry and its something beneficial about life. I watch you all the time, great job!
How funny, I was just making my first ear cuffs tonight and it is a LOT harder than it looks! Everyone's ears are different too, no clue how you make them for others yet bc I can barely do it for myself. Lol
I believe that pair wire is the best. Although if you are looking for sterling silver wire Rio Grande is the best for the sterling silver because they have many options of different sizes as well as half round and square
Just adorable I am very grateful Mat for taking the time to teach and share your knowledge about how to the ear cuts Thank you very much. God bless you
Matt when you find a good wire supplier please let us know. It's very expensive in craft stores for so few feet and I've been searching too. Many thanks😊
You are AMAZING at what you do. Thank you so much for inspiring me. You explain well, make it fun, and not to mention your awesome personality! I am blessed to have come upon your channel. Subscribed, subscribed, and yessssssssss, I totally SUBSCRIBED!!! THANK YOU!
Hi! New subscriber here. I LOOVVEE YOU! Lol. Your energy is great.. you crack me up... and love the way you explain stuff! You are giving me soooo many ideas! Been wanting to work with wire for awhile... I’ve had a bunch just sitting there.... So found your rose earrings video where you used flattened wire.. twisted.. then rolled it to a rose and I’ve been addicted for 3 days! Lol. I had some pinkish flat 20 gage wire...I have made rose earrings.. rings... and bracelet cuffs making both ends a rose so it squeezes on your wrist. Same wire for the rings. I also curled a rondel faceted crystal in that first curl...nice and tight... then twisted the wire and rolled to a rose. Wish you could see what you inspired. 🙏🏼 For sharing your videos. One of my new fav channels 💖💖💖💖 Happy crafting 🤗
P.s. SOOOOO happy you said 90 percent is adjusting... cause I’m like... how do I have so few pieces in 3 hours 😂 Was I really adjusting them for so long. 🤣😂 I’m a perfectionist like you when it comes to how the wire lays for sure!
It’s so funny how I found your channel, but I’m so glad I did! I was looking for reviews for the horror~comedy “Cute Little Buggers” about killer alien bunnies, & your video titled “Cute Little Gypsy Earrings” was in there somewhere. 😂 I love making jewelry! Can’t wait to have the extra $ to buy some wire, some awesome beads, & put your tutorials to good use! Definitely subbing!
It will be interesting what you find regarding the silver. I find Artistic "nicks" if you will and gets sharp edges. I generally use raw dead soft, but keeping an inventory can get expensive.
These ear cuffs are magical! So pretty, relatively easy, very popular and saleable. Love the stained chopstick idea! You are so creative and talented, dude!
Yvonne Williams, who has a channel on UA-cam and does a lot of wire wrapped jewellery, along with chain mail stuff, swears by Parawire for everything she does!
@@smithk6977 Truly an exceptional human being and artist, I hope to someday create jewellery nearly as beautiful as her, and Matt, my two favourite channels!
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS!!! I AM TOTALLY NEW AT ALL THIS WIRE WORK STUFF. I AM INTO CRYSTALS & BEEN COLLECTING THEM FOR LIKE FOREVER!! BUT NOW I THINK IT'S TIME TO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING VERY CREATIVE WITH THEM. AS MY SANITY, LATELY, DESPERATELY NEEDS A CREATIVE OUTLET. LOL IT ALL CAN SEEM VERY INTIMIDATING & GET OVERWHELMING FOR ME. SO I ALWAYS TURN TO YOU, FOR ALL MY GUIDANCE. I ESP LOVE THIS VIDEO. AS YOU ARE STEP-BY-STEP, CLEARLY & ESSSSP SLOWLY, EXPLAINING EVERYTHING IN AWESOME DETAIL, PERRRFECT FOR A TOTAL NEWBIE LIKE ME😮LOL AS I AM A BIG TIME VISUAL LEARNER, THIS VID WAS PERFECT FOR ME & IS MY NEW, LATEST, #1 FAVE💞👌😁👍💞 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING MATT!!! AS YOU ARE TRULY GIVING ME THE CONFIDENCE & ESP COURAGE, TO ATTEMPT THESE WIRE WORK MASTERPIECES, THAT YOU EFFORTLESSLY, ALWAYS MAKE LOOK SO EASY😒 LOL!!😆😅 😉 MUCH LOVE, RESPECT & APPRECIATION TO YOU MY AWESOME MENTOR & FRIEND!!💙 😊
HAHAAAAAA!!!! 😄😅😆😂 THAT SENTIMENT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED MY FRIEND 😀 SO, SINCE YOU HAD TO PUT ME BETWEEN A ROCK & A HARD PLACE... 🤔 MY #5 ROBOTS 🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖 MUST TRUMP YOUR 3🐙🐙🐙 😏😎 😆😂 😉 #BEST COMMENT REPLY EVER!! 👌🙃👍 LOL!! 😄😉❤️
I have found that the 18 ga silver or titanium (antique looking) silver is and has been harder and kinkier than antique copper and antique bronze. I moved down to 20 ga to make it easier on myself. My supplier is Parawire. They have given me great cutomer service, i 'think' the process of coating dead soft copper with silver and then another coating of enamel, might be the unavoidable result of the kinks and hard temper. But, I'm not a science major. I'd love to see what you might find that is better.
Linda, Parawire is the one who has had problems with their silver. Silver coated copper used to be soft, no matter where you got it from, like regular copper or brass. They kept saying every batch comes out different and they have no control. I will try other companies and see if other places have this problem.
I have been using raw copper much softer and more malleable. Also, if you cut your wire with the flat side toward the part you’re keeping it’s a smoother end.
Hi, The silver wire Zebra is good and you can get it at Fire mountain gems. Pure cooper wire 25 feet for 5.24 is at home Depot. I just brought 2-22 gauge wire 75 feet for 1 roll, 180 feet for 11 .38 5.29 each. If I can remember other places, I will let you know.
I thought you used para wire.. I read thru some of the comments and saw your post about it. maybe they sent the half hard instead of the dead soft. Have you made toe rings by doing 2 bendy parts?
MellyAnn, I had many conversations over the phone with the people at Parawire. They insist every silver batch comes out different and they have no way to control it. It used to be as soft as plain copper - then it got harder, then harder, then softer, then so hard the last time I bought a giant spool, I almost found it worthless.
Matt you just amaze me with everything you make. Great and easy to follow tutorial. Thanks so much for sharing your tips and tricks again with us. I really am in awe at what you create and how simple you make it look. Thanks so much. Everything was absolutely stunning. A question what would you charge for 1 of them? A ballpark figure. Much love and hugs as always. You're the man!! I've gotten alot of my parawire at JTV.COM. They have some awesome deals on kits with different colored parawire and sizes. I've been really happy so far. 😎😎😙😙🤗🤗🖒🖒💜💜
I need help! I'm needing a collet for my battery-operated bead reamer...can you tell me where to get one or what I need to look for? Anyone that knows please let me know. I've searched the internet but I first need to know what to look for and where to get it would be helpful. Thanks!
Hey. I like ParaWire, and you can get it from Fire Mountain Gems at literally half what it costs from ParaWire's own website. And it is NOT Zebra Wire or that other cheap wire stuff FMG sells, it is genuine ParaWIre...at least that's what's on the label anyway. If, on the other hand, you don't really like ParaWire then I got nothin' for ya dude, sorry. Good luck finding what you want. Oh yeah, I really like all your stuff. Not just the jewelry but your ceramics and other art work, too.
I am from Sri Lanka. These designs are very beautiful. I love to make these designs. I can't buy copper wire in Sri Lanka. Can you help me to get the price of copper wire from your country or somewhere.... thanku
I so want ear cuffs!!!! Matt is this real silver ? Can;t wait to give this a try. No silver wire here but will try on other wire to get the hang f it. I do have some stainless steel but the gauge might be too small. I think it might be 25 or 26?? Forget now. I was making French beaded flowers with it. Was so fun.
Question, I was gifted a bunch of stainless steel wire. Super tough on the fingers, but the gauge has me a little perplexed. It looks approximately 18 gauge. Are calipers what I need to figure this out?
Boy I needed this information. I am designing a cuff to pull my ear forward. Then I can hear better like when I put my cuffed hand behind my ear. Lots of older people will hear better without hearing aids. You helped me again. Thanks, it means so much to me. Patty Clark
I love it that you present a more simplistic way to make these, and I don't feel hindered just because I don't have all those fancy tools.
I loved how you had people model them at the end. They looked fantastic.
I agree with most, Parawire is the best I've used in over 40 yrs.
I love your loop technique! Thank you for explaining more than once, for people like me with a sieve for a memory!
Veryyyy cute and simple. They looked good on the models.
Matt you are always spitting knowledge and you have no idea you're doing it. You'll say something about jewelry and its something beneficial about life. I watch you all the time, great job!
Copper, and the 25 feet at home Depot is 18 gauge. For 5.24.
Urban Cowgirl .......thank you very much
How funny, I was just making my first ear cuffs tonight and it is a LOT harder than it looks! Everyone's ears are different too, no clue how you make them for others yet bc I can barely do it for myself. Lol
I believe that pair wire is the best. Although if you are looking for sterling silver wire Rio Grande is the best for the sterling silver because they have many options of different sizes as well as half round and square
Just adorable
I am very grateful Mat for taking the time to teach and share your knowledge about how to the ear cuts
Thank you very much.
God bless you
I like adding a swirl at the end of a head charm. Gives it a more finished look. I love your channel!
Love your teaching style and easy vibe. Reminds me of the person that introduced me to craft jewellery way back in 2010
Being an 80s girl I really like those.. very nice.
Have you ever tried using a wire bur tool to smooth the end of the wire? I use one every time. No rough edges to worry about.
Cute little cuffs! 😊
I'm addicted to your channel I've never done anything like this before but I want to so badly
anything is possible Lindsy :)
just try
Love it! Good tutorial!
I have often wondered where you film at. In a mall?
Matt you have done it again impressed me i mean i tried to do ear cuff's a while back but gave up i must try them again
Why did you give up on the cuff earrings? J.w
Love all the things you make.
These are amazing Matt.
Great ear cuffs, thanks for showing how to display them.
I so love your style of showing us.. its easy to follow and easy to do the way you show..Kudo's Matt.
Matt when you find a good wire supplier please let us know. It's very expensive in craft stores for so few feet and I've been searching too. Many thanks😊
Did you find one man because I just started this Hobby
You are AMAZING at what you do.
Thank you so much for inspiring me. You explain well, make it fun, and not to mention your awesome personality!
I am blessed to have come upon your channel.
Subscribed, subscribed, and yessssssssss, I totally SUBSCRIBED!!!
THANK YOU!
I like those!
Hi! New subscriber here. I LOOVVEE YOU! Lol. Your energy is great.. you crack me up... and love the way you explain stuff! You are giving me soooo many ideas! Been wanting to work with wire for awhile... I’ve had a bunch just sitting there.... So found your rose earrings video where you used flattened wire.. twisted.. then rolled it to a rose and I’ve been addicted for 3 days! Lol. I had some pinkish flat 20 gage wire...I have made rose earrings.. rings... and bracelet cuffs making both ends a rose so it squeezes on your wrist. Same wire for the rings. I also curled a rondel faceted crystal in that first curl...nice and tight... then twisted the wire and rolled to a rose. Wish you could see what you inspired. 🙏🏼 For sharing your videos. One of my new fav channels 💖💖💖💖 Happy crafting 🤗
P.s. SOOOOO happy you said 90 percent is adjusting... cause I’m like... how do I have so few pieces in 3 hours 😂 Was I really adjusting them for so long. 🤣😂 I’m a perfectionist like you when it comes to how the wire lays for sure!
It’s so funny how I found your channel, but I’m so glad I did! I was looking for reviews for the horror~comedy “Cute Little Buggers” about killer alien bunnies, & your video titled “Cute Little Gypsy Earrings” was in there somewhere. 😂 I love making jewelry! Can’t wait to have the extra $ to buy some wire, some awesome beads, & put your tutorials to good use! Definitely subbing!
Love it. You are so creative
I have started using parawire, so far am pretty happy
so pretty. thanks for your inspirations🌻❤
You are a Bad Ass Matt! Love ya!!!!!!
Thank you for sharing 😊
Very cool, Matt!
Hilarious...enjoying this...but nice ear cuffs, really nice!
Hi MATT you are very creative thanks for sharing.
Do you sell your stuff at Etsy?
I would love to buy something
You made.
It will be interesting what you find regarding the silver. I find Artistic "nicks" if you will and gets sharp edges. I generally use raw dead soft, but keeping an inventory can get expensive.
Love Ear Cuffs 👍😍👏
going to try some ... love it ...
Thank you for your idea on how to display the ear cuffs. That is a great idea and I will use it at my next craft show.
Love Yvonne! 😍
Super cute!! Love them all!
You’re awesome. Thanks for this super fun and creative video❤️
These ear cuffs are magical! So pretty, relatively easy, very popular and saleable. Love the stained chopstick idea! You are so creative and talented, dude!
Oh my such pretty little ear cuffs! 😊💜
Omgoodness, your CUTE ! ....the ear cuff isnt bad either, teehehehe!
That is too cool. I ♥ it. Thank you!
Yvonne Williams, who has a channel on UA-cam and does a lot of wire wrapped jewellery, along with chain mail stuff, swears by Parawire for everything she does!
I did too until all their silver started coming out harder and harder and they said they had no control of how it came out.
@@MattsCrazyArt
Oh, that's shitty, other place she buys is from The Ring Lord, otherwise I can't be much help!
Love the cuffs, BTW!
@@quietinspirationcreations3448 no problem, I'm gonna try some more companies out and try figure out what's goin on.
Love Yvonne William she and her videos are awesome 👍👏
@@smithk6977
Truly an exceptional human being and artist, I hope to someday create jewellery nearly as beautiful as her, and Matt, my two favourite channels!
I love it. I'm going to make myself asset of those. I saved it so can watch overandover
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS!!!
I AM TOTALLY NEW AT ALL THIS WIRE WORK STUFF. I AM INTO CRYSTALS & BEEN COLLECTING THEM FOR LIKE FOREVER!! BUT NOW I THINK IT'S TIME TO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING VERY CREATIVE WITH THEM. AS MY SANITY, LATELY, DESPERATELY NEEDS A CREATIVE OUTLET. LOL
IT ALL CAN SEEM VERY INTIMIDATING & GET OVERWHELMING FOR ME.
SO I ALWAYS TURN TO YOU, FOR ALL MY GUIDANCE.
I ESP LOVE THIS VIDEO. AS YOU ARE STEP-BY-STEP, CLEARLY & ESSSSP SLOWLY, EXPLAINING EVERYTHING IN AWESOME DETAIL, PERRRFECT FOR A TOTAL NEWBIE LIKE ME😮LOL
AS I AM A BIG TIME VISUAL LEARNER, THIS VID WAS PERFECT FOR ME & IS MY NEW, LATEST,
#1 FAVE💞👌😁👍💞
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING MATT!!! AS YOU ARE TRULY GIVING ME THE CONFIDENCE & ESP COURAGE,
TO ATTEMPT THESE WIRE WORK MASTERPIECES, THAT YOU EFFORTLESSLY, ALWAYS MAKE LOOK SO EASY😒 LOL!!😆😅 😉
MUCH LOVE, RESPECT & APPRECIATION TO YOU MY AWESOME MENTOR & FRIEND!!💙 😊
This gets 3 octopuses 👾👾👾
HAHAAAAAA!!!! 😄😅😆😂
THAT SENTIMENT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED MY FRIEND 😀
SO, SINCE YOU HAD TO PUT ME BETWEEN A ROCK & A HARD
PLACE... 🤔
MY #5 ROBOTS 🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖 MUST TRUMP YOUR 3🐙🐙🐙 😏😎 😆😂 😉
#BEST COMMENT REPLY EVER!! 👌🙃👍 LOL!! 😄😉❤️
Hello. I'm Subscribe....
You rock!
I have found that the 18 ga silver or titanium (antique looking) silver is and has been harder and kinkier than antique copper and antique bronze. I moved down to 20 ga to make it easier on myself. My supplier is Parawire. They have given me great cutomer service, i 'think' the process of coating dead soft copper with silver and then another coating of enamel, might be the unavoidable result of the kinks and hard temper. But, I'm not a science major. I'd love to see what you might find that is better.
Linda, Parawire is the one who has had problems with their silver.
Silver coated copper used to be soft, no matter where you got it from, like regular copper or brass.
They kept saying every batch comes out different and they have no control.
I will try other companies and see if other places have this problem.
@@MattsCrazyArt They need to correct this or their sales will disappear. Thank you, Matt.
I have been using raw copper much softer and more malleable. Also, if you cut your wire with the flat side toward the part you’re keeping it’s a smoother end.
,,
Dude .. your pupils are like pools of the abyss.. 😳
Hi, The silver wire Zebra is good and you can get it at Fire mountain gems. Pure cooper wire 25 feet for 5.24 is at home Depot. I just brought 2-22 gauge wire 75 feet for 1 roll, 180 feet for 11 .38 5.29 each. If I can remember other places, I will let you know.
Years ago I used Zebra wire and the color flaked off. Has the quality improved?
@@Lindasinish so far for me has been fine.
Have you tried Parawire?
Parawire best quality I have found.
What brand tools do u advise?
Wooow i love it ❤️
Real nice...runs to try it. =)
You are Artist 👍👍👍👏👏👏
I like using parawire... don’t know if you checked their prices.. g nite
you're the best
Check parawire I love it ... It's smooth like u talk about
Ohhhhhhh Matt..... I just want to make all the pretty things....
Its easier n comes out better if u use a jig🤗but it turned out pretty nice
A jig!!! Matt's creations don have uniform shapes that's why we love him ....
A jig!!!... Matt's creations dont have uniform shapes that's why we love him
Your a crack up Matt’s...love the beard...✌🏼💚❤️🌻
Nice🧡🧡🧡🧡
Have you tried buying directly from parawire I know a few people that buy from there.
Yes, they were my main supplier till their silver wire started getting harder and harder and they claimed they couldn't control the hardness.
@@MattsCrazyArt wow that's odd
Parawire?? I’ve always liked it first and foremost.
Matt, how do you keep from scratching the wire while using your pliers?
Lot of practice
At around 11:34 it looked kinda like it said love. Those are adorable.
Very cool !!! but how comfortable are they with so much curly q going on ?
They're very comfortable. The only challenge is they have to be very carefully adapted to each ear or they still fall off fairly easily.
I have so many of these little guys with different sizes & combinations of stones. Some are so tiny I'm afraid I'm gonna lose them
I love swirls! And i make hair decorations. (I think vikings had them in their braids....?)
I'm definitely going to try these 10:17
Very cool
Very nice
Try Parawire.com also Rio Grande jewelry Supply is one of the better places. Fire Mountain is also good, but you do need to read the descriptions.
I thought you used para wire.. I read thru some of the comments and saw your post about it. maybe they sent the half hard instead of the dead soft. Have you made toe rings by doing 2 bendy parts?
MellyAnn, I had many conversations over the phone with the people at Parawire. They insist every silver batch comes out different and they have no way to control it.
It used to be as soft as plain copper - then it got harder, then harder, then softer, then so hard the last time I bought a giant spool, I almost found it worthless.
Matt I gotcha... I get the smaller spools and so far I haven't had a problem. if i hear of anyone one i will let you know..
were you able to find a supplier?
Earcuffs👂👏 WoW! 👂👏
Omg I am laughing my ass off .. the song title, Need A Supplier?
(c) 2019 "Need a Supplier" New Infinity Records. (sounds like a drug dealing song)
omg it does LOL
Matt you just amaze me with everything you make. Great and easy to follow tutorial. Thanks so much for sharing your tips and tricks again with us. I really am in awe at what you create and how simple you make it look. Thanks so much. Everything was absolutely stunning. A question what would you charge for 1 of them? A ballpark figure. Much love and hugs as always. You're the man!! I've gotten alot of my parawire at JTV.COM. They have some awesome deals on kits with different colored parawire and sizes. I've been really happy so far. 😎😎😙😙🤗🤗🖒🖒💜💜
I need help! I'm needing a collet for my battery-operated bead reamer...can you tell me where to get one or what I need to look for? Anyone that knows please let me know. I've searched the internet but I first need to know what to look for and where to get it would be helpful. Thanks!
I don't like 20 gauge at all. I bought way too much of it. If you make it they will come to buy it. The black girl is beautiful u know her tell her.
Just throw it at the wall over and over till you like it more.
@@MattsCrazyArt u silly boy....
Hey. I like ParaWire, and you can get it from Fire Mountain Gems at literally half what it costs from ParaWire's own website. And it is NOT Zebra Wire or that other cheap wire stuff FMG sells, it is genuine ParaWIre...at least that's what's on the label anyway. If, on the other hand, you don't really like ParaWire then I got nothin' for ya dude, sorry. Good luck finding what you want. Oh yeah, I really like all your stuff. Not just the jewelry but your ceramics and other art work, too.
I'll check that out. Thanks!
l love parawire
I am from Sri Lanka. These designs are very beautiful. I love to make these designs. I can't buy copper wire in Sri Lanka. Can you help me to get the price of copper wire from your country or somewhere.... thanku
I don't know
AWESOME. . .✌🎼🎸👣🍹
I so want ear cuffs!!!! Matt is this real silver ? Can;t wait to give this a try. No silver wire here but will try on other wire to get the hang f it. I do have some stainless steel but the gauge might be too small. I think it might be 25 or 26?? Forget now. I was making French beaded flowers with it. Was so fun.
It's non tarnish silver plated copper. I would use no thinner gauge than 20
Hello! Very very pretty indeed:-)
❤️
To cute❤
What’s the retail for a finished ear cuff?
One million dollars
Question, I was gifted a bunch of stainless steel wire. Super tough on the fingers, but the gauge has me a little perplexed. It looks approximately 18 gauge. Are calipers what I need to figure this out?
No, stainless steel wire is very heavy and difficult. Use it for cuffs or tying down ships or holding prisoners
Yeah my thoughts were for cuffs; fun shaped bookmarks and such. Maybe adjustable rings?
Btw yes it’s very difficult. Made one cuff and my tiny fingers were sore the rest of the day.
👌👌
Fire Mountain Gems
Parawire is best
I like them for all but their silver lately.