We’re going to pick up our weave exactly where we left off.
Remember, our goal is to make the splice as seamless as possible. Step 2: Splice the New Wire Into Your Weave If you’re weaving over just two core wires as I am, make sure the tail of your old weaving wire ends up between the two core wires, as shown above. So if you’re weaving over three or more core wires, choose a point on either side of the center core wire. It’s always better to splice new wires in the middle of your work. If your weaving wire broke, you may need to unwind it a bit to get a long enough tail and to reach a good stopping point in your weave. Notice in the image above that I stopped weaving with my old wire just after completing the single wrap pass. I like to splice my new wire in the middle of a pattern repeat. The first thing you want to do before splicing the new wire is to make sure that you have a clean, neatly compressed weave and a tail on your old weaving wire that is at least one inch long, as shown below.
#SPLICE 2 WIRES TOGETHER FULL#
To learn more, please see my full disclaimer. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. If you click on a link and then make a purchase, I may earn a small commission (at no cost to you). You may just have to think it through if you’re doing a more elaborate weave than the two that I tend to use, which are the Modified Soumak and Figure 8 weaves. So you can apply this technique to just about any project. And there’s not really anything that you need to do differently from one weave to the next. This technique works on just about any weave over two or more core wires.
#SPLICE 2 WIRES TOGETHER HOW TO#
That gave me the perfect opportunity to show you how to splice a new weaving wire into an existing weave. But then I ran out of weaving wire in the middle of my bracelet prototype.
That tutorial isn’t quite ready to publish yet, so I was afraid I wasn’t going to have a blog post for this week. And now I’m working on a simple bracelet tutorial that features that weave. In my last post, I showed you how to do the Modified Soumak weave over two core wires. It’s easier than you might think! Trust me. Today we’re going to talk about how to seamlessly splice a new wire into your weave. Or if you’re like me, you simply run out of wire on your bobbin.
You’re happily weaving your core wires together. If the extension of the wire is beyond 100 feet, consider replacing the wire with a thicker size.It happens to the best of us.You can splice 2 differently-sized wires together, as long as they're close in gauge (like 18AWG and 16AWG).16 gauge is also common, especially for distances up to 50 ft (15 m). 18 gauge (AWG) is the most popular size, and it's usually used for distances of up to 25 ft (7.6 m). Speaker wire ranges from 10AWG (which is very thick) to 20AWG (which is very thin).You can also cut a small piece of the wire and take it with you to a store that sells audio supplies so they can tell you.The number that's printed beside that hole is the wire gauge. If yours doesn't, place the wire in the holes of your wire cutter until you find the hole it fits in most closely. Some wires will have the gauge printed down the side of the wire. For the best sound results, use stranded (not solid) speaker wire that's the same gauge (AWG) as your existing wire. Match the size of your replacement and existing wire.
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