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Hi this is Julie
with Beadaholique.com and today wanna talk to you about the Wubbers brand
of jewelry-making pliers. I'm going to focus on three different collections here
the baby line, the classic series
and the Designer Series. I'll go through each one of these pliers with you to
give you a better understanding
of how they work and what they're all about. Also when you do buy a pair of
Wubbers
on the back of the packaging. So this is the card that's included with them
it does tell you what gauge wire to use the particular pair of pliers with
it'll also tell you what type of sheet to use with it as well
This is very handy to know that you're going to have that information. Wubbers are a very
distinct
plier because they have these nice turquoise soft foam fitted handles. I'm
actually gonna press in on it a little bit you can see it's not rigid
which is good if you're making a lot of jewelry and using these a lot
they're very comfortable to use and that's the biggest thing about Wubbers
they're really were designed with the jewelry maker in mind
Wubbers creator Patti Bullard was a jewelry designer and she was using tools that
were not meant for jewelry because at that time there really weren't a lot of
jewelry specific tools on the market
so she created tools that were comfortable to use,
fine tips, precision quality that really were meant
for jewelry and whenever you see a pair of Wubbers in addition to the lovely
turquoise foam fitted handles, you see an nice boxed joint
and you also notice that all of the actual hardware here is
stainless steel and has been hand finished to protect your jewelry
against any type of marring
or slipping. So let's get right into talking about the pliers and I wanna
look at the baby line first
as the name suggests they are smaller, heres from the classic line, you can see that
the baby is smaller
it's five inches from tip to the bottom of your handles
which is good for people with smaller hands, traveling
or just you know different people have different comfort levels. I personally
love the baby line, they fit my hand
better. I use them all the time if I'm doing chain mail in particular because they
are so nice and sturdy
even though they are compact. So the chain nose
which is here. You'll see it comes down to a nice point and that's going to be a
chain nose plier
also in the baby line is a flat nose and you can see the difference
between the chain nose and the flat nose and it is as the name suggests
it's a nice flat nose. Then we also have
a bent nose
again as the name suggests it has a nice curvature to the nose
and these are great if you're going to be opening jump rings. So I do do a lot
chainmail
and I love using a bent nose and a chain nose
to open up my jump rings also the
curve of the bent nose will allow yoou to really get into the
difficult spots when you're doing something like chainmail
or intricate jewelry design, these are very helpful
and then the final piece in the baby collection is
the round nose. I just have a piece of wire right here
you can see with a round nose you can just
twist the wire into a nice loop and those come to a nice point is well
so that is the baby collection. There's four pliers in it
and now let's look at the classic collection. So classic one
the handles are the larger but this is good too
I said I like to use baby ones for chain mail but when my hands get a
little sore
which they do when you do a lot of chain maille I switched to the large size
because the handle is gonna hit me at a different spot
which is nice. So this is the chain nose
in the classic collection, it is 6.5 inches instead of five inches
like the baby and then what's nice is there are three different sizes
of flat nose
we have the wide, the medium and the narrow flat nose
and you can see their tips line up a really nice and you can see how they look
compared to the chains and then you're also going to have
a round nose in the classic collection
as well as a bent nose pliers and these are really nice and strong
with the round nose the narrowest part
is approximately 1.5 millimeters and the
largest is approximately six millimeters
and then finally I wanna talk about the designer series and designer series
allows you to do a little something different than what a classic pliers are
going to do
you've got three different sizes of a bail making plier
now on the large one here is gonna be the smaller side
a smaller nose is gonna be six millimeters in diameter
and the larger nose is going to be eight millimeter
on the medium size one your large nose is going to be five millimeters
and your small nose is gonna be three millimeters
and then on the small one which is my particular favorite the large noses is going to
be two millimeters
and the small nose is going to be 1.5 millimeters
and what's so nice about these is in contrast
to a pair of round nose it's tapered. So every time you
use then you might get a slightly different size loop. Then the bail making
pliers are completely uniformed
all the way through. So I'm gonna show you that. So no matter where I put
them on the actual nose
as long as I'm doing it on the same side
my loops are going to be identical every time
which is great for jewelry making and the final plier
in the Designer Series is the wire looping plier
and these are specifically made to be used with 20 gauge wire
I have some 20 gauge wire right here
and these allow you to make perfect eye pins
every time
I'm going to take it, you can see that there's a concave side
and then a uniform round nose part
and going to take my wire, put it into the curve part,
walk it around
when I get to the end I'm going to bend it and I have gotten an eye pin
and every time my eye pin is gonna look identical to this
and because the pliers are specifically made with 20 gauge wire in mind
I'm not marring my wire at al. So these are also great if you wanna make
wrapped wire loops
put the wire
into the pliers itself
wrap it around, then we can just make
a nice wrapped wire loop and take
our chain nose and tighten that up
so that is an overview of the baby series,
the classic series and the Designer Series of Wubbers pliers
and in case you're curious how Wubbers got their unusual name
it started with the initials of another company named wired up
beads. So W U B which is now part of the Wubbers company
so I hope this explain a little bit about the three different series
of Wubbers pliers and in the next video I'm actually gonna talk to you about
some
very fun Wubbers pliers which are mandrel pliers and you can see we've got an oval,
a round, a triangle and a square and these come in a variety of sizes for your
jewelry making needs.
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