ZOOMSHOP – Powerful Radio Crystal Earrings

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LeslieAnn listening to her crystal radio set back in the early days of radio on Planet Urth.

This is the most powerful ancient style Copper Earring Set you’ll ever buy. Here’s what you should have received in your kit — check each item off this list to make sure you have everything you’re supposed to have in the kit:

  1.  Two Rough Uncut Radio Crystal Beads in a separate ziplock bag.
  2. Four copper “donut” beads.
  3. Four fancy faceted copper beads.
  4. One ziplock bag with FOUR 6″ long .20 gauge copper wires from which you’ll make the hand-made ear-wires, the crowning touch of a fine set of ancient style earrings.
  5. One ziplock bag with TEN 1 1/2″-2″ .20 gauge copper wires to be made into paddles.
  6. One ziplock bag with TWO French-Style gold-color SURGICAL STEEL earwires.

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Unlikely Juxtapositions in Quantum Field Systems

Came across this yesterday when searching amongst the youtube Strange Parallel Worlds. The juxtaposition of characters and the song’s intent and direction certainly qualify for the heading, “Strangely & Weirdly Unique”, which is the idea when targeting a parallel world for travel.

You pick up a TARGET in cyberspace. This QUANTUM TARGET is then duplicated.  you place a TARGET at the point where you want to land. Continue reading

ZOOMSHOP – Sumerian Bead Earrings

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Toni sells jewelry at the group’s Copper & Silver Boutique in West Hollywood.

This is your most basic STERLING SILVER earring kit, the Sumerian Steatite Earring Set. Here’s what you should have received in your kit, each packaged in its own zip-lock baggie, tagged for quick identification — check each item off this list to make sure you have everything you’re supposed to have in the kit:

  1.  Four Whitish Sumerian Steatite beads. These came originally from the Susa at Uruk, the main city of ancient Sumer, and were legally and openly brought into the United States prior to 1964, the year when I obtained them from Joe Rose at Superior Stamp & Coin in New York City. Joe was a longtime friend and a very responsible and honest antiquity dealer — that’s not at all rare in the profession — these are amazing and magical beads; almost all of them were intact, and among the steatite beads, I found Carnelian, Jasper, Hematite and Lodestone, among other variants. The white steatite stone-carved beads were made around 4500 B.C. out of flat-cut stone, hand-rubbed and rolled on flat rocks to burnish them down into flattish rounds after drilling the hole in the center with a bow-drill, which is still used in some parts of the world today. Absolutely Guaranteed Authentic 6,000 year-old ancient beads.
  2. Four 3mm modern factory-made .925 sterling silver “spacer” beads.
  3. Four 6mm handmade modern .999 fine silver Bali style fancy spacer beads.
  4. One labeled package containing 12 modern .925 sterling silver wires, about 1″-1.5″ (30mm – 40mm) long, ready for clipping & bending.
  5. One labeled package containing 2 modern .925 sterling silver .22 gauge wires, about 4″, or 100mm long, to form the Core Wires.
  6. One labeled package containing 2 modern .925 sterling silver .20 gauge silver wires, about 4″, or 100 mm long, from which you’ll make the hand-made ear-wires, the crowning touch of a fine set of ancient style earrings.

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ZOOMSHOP – Byzantine Drop

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Start with 4″ of straight wire.

You’ll need to start with a good generous piece of straight .22 gauge wire, at least 4″ in length, until you get the “feel” of what length is good to work with. Don’t forget that almost all your scrap can be employed somewhere, somehow or another, mangled or not.

Ideal scrap length for .22 gauge is around 2″, or about 50mm, so as ye cut, so also shall ye reap. Continue reading

ZOOMSHOP – Make a Celtic Spiral

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Start winding your spirals at the BOTTOM of the wire.

Start winding your spirals at the BOTTOM of the wire, not the top. You will put a hanging loop at the top later on, but NOT NOW.

Take hold of the wire GENTLY with your needlenose pliers, and slowly and gently COAX the wire into a spiral shape by moving it SIDEWAYS to form the first spiral. Continue reading

ZOOMSHOP – Royal Hellenistic Earrings

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Start out with a 6″ straight .22 or .24 gauge wire.

The first choice comes when you select two stones for your Hellenistic earrings. Try the .22 gauge wire first. Gently push the wire through the drill-hole in the bead to see if it will work. If EITHER bead is reluctant to accept the .22 gauge wire, switch to the much thinner .24 gauge wire.

The Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Sumerians and Babylonians were incredible builders and engineers. This earring depends upon a bridge-engineering discovery they made many tens of thousands of years ago, that translates into bead technology as: a vertical wire will support a bead better than a horizontal wire. Continue reading

ZOOMSHOP – Iron-Age Pendant

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Pendants are built from a single piece of wire.

It’s easy to make a pendant from a single piece of wire. Later, we’ll see how to use several pieces of differing dimensions to create a more complex form, but here’s the simple solution to a real Iron-Age Pendant.

Start with a 6 inch length of .12 gauge or .14 gauge wire.

With your needlenose pliers, gently COAX the wire into a nice, wide loop, big enough inside to accommodate not merely a chain, but the clasp of a chain as well. Like I said, big, roomy, lots of space in there. Continue reading