Here’s a handy guide to the essential tools that you should have for wirework jewelry projects.
- Bench block or anvil
- Cutters: side, end, or flush
- Hammers: chasing, ball peen, cross peen
- Mallet: rawhide or plastic
- Mandrels or dowels
- Needle files
- Pliers: chainnose, flatnose, roundnose, parallel, nylon jaw
- Polishing cloth
- Sandpaper: various grits
- Tumbler, steel shot, burnishing compound