Wire Spiral Holders: An Alternative to Drilling Glass

Here is a simple, quick and attractive alternative to drilling holes in glass. This method can be scaled up and down to suit the size of the glass (or similar object) in question. Depending on your aesthetic choice, it can be strung through either the bridge in the middle or the top of the spirals.

Use reasonable caution: don't pinch yourself, stab yourself in the eye with flying wire bits, etc.

Step 1 Measure your wire.

How long the wire needs to be depends on how big the final spiral will end up. Using about 20cm of 2mm gauge copper wire, my spirals averaged about 1.5cm in diameter. Almost any wire will do for this, so long as you can get enough torque to bend it tightly.

Comments

[giraffepants]

What gauge wire did you use?

[rimar2000]

Clever!

[Corvis]

Thanks! :D

[Servelan]

Brilliant! An enterprising person could make lots of interesting things from this; necklaces, pendants, wine glass markers....

[Corvis]

Thank you! I hope someone can make use of the idea :)