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A file is essential for ensuring your earrings are clean and polished. Hammers and anvils, while not essential, will allow you to diversify the effects you create in your earrings.

11 Sandpaper, nail files, and metal files are a great part of any jewelry kit. Use them to remove the small wire burrs that can occur when a wire is cut and to smooth the ends of cut wires.

12 Ball-peen hammers have a slight curve to the hammer’s face that allows you to evenly bend a wire into three-dimensional shapes as well as flatten wire into varying thicknesses. Ball-peen hammers leave small indents, giving a textured finish to the flattened wire.

13 Jeweler’s anvils only measure about 3" (7.5cm) long. The top anvil pictured here has a textured surface that adds small, fine indents to hammered wire. The second anvil is smooth-surfaced.

14 A nylon mallet or plastic head mallet has a dense, smooth plastic head that leaves no scratches, lines, or indents in hammered metal.

Visual texture is an important part of wire-wrapped jewelry. You can add extra texture to wire links by laying the wire link on an anvil and then tapping the link with a ball-peen hammer or nylon mallet.