Hello weekend crafter! Today, I’m sharing with you some of my favorite ways of attaching earring posts to my earring studs.

One of my favorite ways of attaching earring posts is using super glue. In the States, a popular brand is Loctite. Another way that you can attach posts is by using liquid Sculpey.

So let’s start with using earring posts with an extended peg. This is actually my go-to post because the peg gives the earrings something extra to hold on to. The way that I attach this is that before I bake my stud, I already press down the earing post so that the peg leaves a hole on the back of the earrings. You can bake it with or without the post, but I prefer to bake it with the post in.

Some reminders though on using the extended peg. First, you can’t roll out your slab too thinly. The peg itself is about 2 mm, so you have to roll out your clay a little bit thicker. If I used a thinner slab, pushing the peg in will cause it to have an indent on the top of the earring.  So I recommend rolling out a slab that is about 3 mm in thickness.

Before I glue the post, I use my electric nail file and roughen out the surface of the post. Then, I also roughen out the surface of the back of my earrings. This helps to better adhere my post to the earrings. Then, I just put the glue around the post and make sure the hole lines up with the peg.

Another common way of attaching earring posts is with the use of liquid Sculpey. One way of doing it is by putting a bit of liquid Sculpey on the flat side of the earring post and then covering the entire backside of the earrings with liquid Sculpey. When this bakes, it will be more or less clear, and if the post is completely covered, it’s pretty hard to pull out.

Yet another way of attaching the post is by sandwiching it between clay. So, what I do first is to place the post on the stud. And then, roll out a thinner piece of clay and place a hole on its center. Then, I cover the post with liquid Sculpey and use the thinner piece to cover the entire back.

As you can see, the posts are then hidden, which looks really neat. But, the trade off is that you will end up with shorter posts. Comparing the covered posts with the exposed posts, I actually lost about 1-2 mm in length on the covered posts. This might be ok on some earlobes, but if your client’s earlobes are on the thick side, this might be a concern for them as the earrings might end up too tight.

Finally, for attaching the plastic posts, of course since this is plastic, I can’t attach it to unbaked clay. I simply sand off the top of the post with my electric nail file and attach it to the earrings with super glue. By the way, if you put too much super glue on the posts, the backs of your earrings might end up with a white residue around the post. To remove this, simply put some acetone on a cotton bud and go around the area gently.

So, my conclusion is that all of these methods work, some ways are just more convenient than others.   

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