I am at the beginning of starting to try and make jewelry my career. I love it! And I am often inspired by the work I see here. Right now I simply work wire, but would love to progress to casting and maybe even learning CAD to make molds one day!

This is probably an odd question - When I have made necklaces, i have always just used a bead board to set them up. or wrapped wire and not really worried about it. When making necklaces, do you all use any sort of form (like a bust or something) to make sure it fits right? Is it necessary?

With the wire I can just sort of hand mold it, so it seems to be okay...but I would like to figure out casting at some point, and wondered how do you guys make your necklaces?