This is the coling gizmo. As you may be able to tell by the wire and beads in the background, it's a jewellery making tool. I saw it being demonstrated at the Craft Show in March and was also seeing projects for it around the same time so I invested. So, what does it do?
It coils. The picture above shows a wire that I coiled, then pulled apart gently. It works on any thickness of wire and you can make big or small coils depending on which twirly-type-thing you put in the vice. I spent a little time at the weekend experimenting with it.
In the picture above I coiled some black wire with the thinnest coiler, then coiled that with a large coiler, producing this coil above. Pretty cool!
This coil was made holding a length of black wire and red wire together. I don't think I picked the best colours as you can't really see the contrast in the photo, it's also pretty subtle in real life.
I stretched it a bit and you can see te colours better.
I used that wire to make another coil, strung this butterfly charm on the first coiled wire and wrapped the coiled-coil round it! I hope you're following me here!
I finished the piece off with some beads and chain. I quite like it!
The beads are rubber and have pretty scalloped red bead caps either side.
I also used a thicker 1mm wire and a medium coiler (I think it comes with 8 sizes) to make my own jump rings, that will be a great money saver and it'll allow me to make jump rings in any colour, thickness and diameter.
I'll have a play with this again, I'm sure there's loads more it can do that I haven't discovered yet - I might just have to google it!
I'm not affiliated with the Coiling Gizmo at all, I just wanted to show you what it does.
