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How To Make Hoop Earrings
During the social hour prior to an evening dinner at last year’s Santa Fe Symposium on Jewelry Manufacturing Technology (SFS), I was speaking with an interesting fellow about the snacks and the upcoming menu. We discovered that we had a lot in common about our love of good food and our cooking habits, so we stood and talked through at least a couple rounds of drinks.
The conversation eventually drifted — as most SFS conversations do — to some aspect of jewelry making. As it turned out, the fellow, Tom Dougherty of Studio 2015 in Woodstock, Illinois, had an interesting process to share about making hoop earrings from tubing. He learned the process from Kenneth Guth, a neighboring goldsmith and acclaimed knife maker. By all accounts, Guth has always enjoyed sharing his knowledge with other people, and he has taught workshops on jewelry, metal work, and knife making, both at the college level and to the general public. The process is incredibly simple, and I’m delighted to share it with you here.
1. Begin by acquiring some tubing. In this example, I am using some sterling silver tubing that I had in my safe from a long-ago purchase from a
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