When the spiral is the desired size, slip on one of your beads or crystals onto the wire and slide it down so it butts up against the spiral. You can actually use more than one bead here if you’d like, or a combination of silver spacers and beads. Use whatever strikes your fancy! Anyhow, what you want to do next is take your rosary pliers and bend the wire at a 90 degree angle like in Figure 3a.
Next, you want to go ahead an create a wirewrap loop at the top using the rosary pliers, chain nose pliers and cutters. For a refresher course, you can read the article on on Wirewrap Drop Technique which is pretty much what you’ll need to make the loop. One thing to be careful with here is that if you’re using soft silver or base metal wire, it is really easy to “mark up” the wire with the rosary pliers, which are often rough. Don’t squeeze too hard on the handles, or alternatively you can use rosary pliers that have rubber tips (I’ve been meaning to pick up some of these) or have been dipped in a solution that coats the tips so they don’t mar surfaces.
Cut off the end of the wire and you’ve got your first spiral! Next, what you’ll want to do is take some chain nose pliers and actually rotate the top wirewrap loop so that it is perpendicular to the spiral. The reason for this is that we are going to attach another spiral to it and we would like the X-Y plane of the spirals to be the same so that it looks a little nicer. If you are only going to have one spiral, you can skip this step. Or also if you WANT them to be perpendicular (reminds me of wind-chimes a bit) then skip this step.
