How to bend
Wire Into Circle
Wire Bending Beginner (Part 2)
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hello it's Kate again this is a part two
of the wire bending exercises for
beginner if you're following along you
can get the these you can print your own
paper I've made them available at
designer retainer calm and you can click
on the link for wire bending 101 so
hopefully you guys have been practicing
and getting better maybe even better
than me but for those of you out there
that want it to see how I did these
exercises myself well here it is I have
my o'the Rio wire right here I have my
handy-dandy bird beaks and my three
prong so we'll see how far we can get on
these today I don't want to make these
too long
of course the further we go the longer
each one's going to take to make so
let's get started all right so I you I'm
just going to start with oh I'm up in
here
my little holder that I made with stone
embedded a pinhead into it so that it is
real handy when I bend retainers some
people have been asking what it is it's
just a felt tip pen
sorry min anyway felt tip pen if I
papermate Flair em I don't know you can
get the non-toxic stuff because you're
going to get it all of your fingers when
you're done with the day but it makes a
great contrasting black mark that you
can see and when you're done with that
mark it just rubs off so you don't have
to worry about it
lingering I never did like the China
markers the tips are always I never
could keep them sharp enough alright so
we're going to start on one end and work
my way around I'm going to line it up
here
mark it
let's do this side with
and notice I was on the inside of that
mark because I marked right on the line
right on the corner so I grabbed it on
the inside of that mark and VIN it so
the mark is at the actual corner and
setteth right before the corner okay
check it back on the paper we're good I
need to just open it up a little
same thing this time I'm gonna do with
my three prong here's the tricky part
we're going to show you all this all
right okay how to move the camera a
little bit or aka iPhone around a little
bit so you could see this because it's
very important depending on where I grab
it to bend it I think I've already went
over this and last one going to recap it
I don't want this angled in any way like
you want this wire parallel as if you
have a piece of paper flat so use this
piece of paper flat on your pliers see
how that's perfectly level right there
if it is angled up you're going to be
out of the plane that you need so you
got to be very conscious of where your
bend is so i'll bend this straight back
OOP see it's already moved you'll move
on yet so I'm going to grab my three
prong and put it right on the mark and
Bend
you snug up that bend a little bit make
sure it's a good 90 degrees all right
okay back to the paper all right I think
we've got our angles tighten them in a
little bit
make my mark where I want to cut it
there we go
I think it got a little bit of a bend to
it
okay as you can tell my wire has a
little bit of a up into it you can see
that so I'm going to try to fix that
real quick all right to fix that not be
able to tell yeah you could tell I'll
hold that corner the front corner is
coming down a little bit so I'm going to
hold this corner and Bend this leg out
some there you go
all right take a look at the flatness of
it
we are good okay all right on to this
one ah my hands are greasy sorry about
that
if you ever put need to put on lotion
before you start wire bending don't I
just put on some before I filmed this
because I was bleaching some models some
disinfecting some and bleaching water
and I always dries out my hands so just
word of the wise go lenient especially
you women folk on the lotions before you
start waterbending because the wires get
really slick now how am I going to
attack this there's two ways I can
either bend it and then cut the two ends
or do like I do the other side and start
on one in and bend it around I think
what I'm going to do is I'm going to
bend this circle first and get that
right and then cut the two hands is a
lot easier so I'm just going to bend it
by hand there we go
get pretty close I'm going to take my
three prong and work on it now raise the
camera okay
mark on this curve here now what you
want to do with a three-prong it's just
barely squeezed it just barely squeezed
I hope you can see that I'm not going
all the way I'm just barely squeezing
the plier this is good practice for when
you want to make those curves
and remember this is ortho wire this
isn't a jewelry wire I believe that
that's kind of dead soft you bend it it
stays bent this you bend and it fights
back a little bit it's got a little
spring to it and that's where the
retention part comes in for the for the
retainers okay so see what I did there
okay let's try it on the paper okay so
I'm a little off I've made my curve a
little too skinny so this way for me to
fix this is to uncover it
so I've got it really pretty close as
you can tell I just need to work on this
side over here say that I need this part
to go out a little bit and then tuck the
leg part back in all right so I need
this part to go out a little bit and
then the leg part to go in
oh I messed that up don't you see that
yeah I can retell
there we go
so I'm doing I'm just kind of contouring
just by flipping the three-prong over
and then back over sometimes yeah yeah I
won't be able to see me make that flip
but if you ever hear here you are here
say I make the flip I'll hold it one way
and this make the flip sometimes you see
it sometimes you don't so I apologize if
you see the so pay attentions of
three-prong sometimes you'll see it one
way sometimes you won't I'll make the
flip off-screen and don't even realize
I'm doing it okay
that took paper
okay I think I've got the loop now it's
raised up a little bit
as you can tell think I got it on there
all right there we go now what I'm going
to do is I'm going to cut the ends and
then we'll check and see if it's flat
that another you've noticed this when I
need to pick this up off the paper
sometimes it's hard to pinch it so I'll
roll it with my thumb and bring up that
arm so I can grab it
nope
I think I cut one leg too short or one
leg too long
there we go make a few more adjustments
all right I think that's as close as I'm
going to get there's a little bit of a
bow out check the flatness yeah flat
alright now we got these two down pretty
good you guys practice I'm going to end
it here before we get started on this
arch which will take a little bit longer
and I'll introduce you to another plier
and I think we'll take an episode for
each one of these because they'll each
take just as long I don't want to make
these too long so download the exercise
sheets if you haven't done so yet again
this is the beginner wire bending this
is part two there are four more of these
sheets and hopefully I'll be able to go
through each of them it's just going to
take a little while so practice practice
and I will see y'all next time
