WigJig - Who Are We?

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Who We Are...Really 

Our company was founded by a combination of Marge Helwig and her son, Gary Helwig. Marge was an instructor teaching how to make jewelry with wire and beads. Gary is an engineer who viewed Marge's hand made jewelry and proposed some different ways to make wire components more consistently by using a jig or pattern. Working together they developed the WigJig family of jewelry making tools and accessories. Marge provided the drive and the ambition when she took the jig that Gary made and had it produced in large quantities for sale. When she sold all the jigs that she had made, our WigJig company was off and running.

Unfortunately, after getting the company up and running, Marge passed away suddenly from cancer. By coincidence, this happened just when Gary's wife Suzanne had just taken early retirement so she had time on her hands. Suzanne supplied the business acumen to help our company grow. Pure luck created the situation where Suzanne had the time and the skills necessary to take over running the business and to make it grow.

After several years of Suzanne running the business, Gary found himself out of a job as the Internet bubble burst. At that time Gary began running the WigJig business full time, making new designs, programming the web site, processing the orders, returning calls, answering e-mails and taking out the trash. Gary now performs all tasks except returning calls, ordering new parts and paying our vendors. (Suzanne continues to order supplies and pay vendors. Our vendors appreciate this because she is far more reliable than Gary.) Gary's sister, Marcia is now our customer service representative and she returns all customer calls. (As Marcia would tell you, she is the nice one, Gary is the smart one.) Brittany - daughter of Marcia and nice of Gary & Suzanne - is a new addition to the team, as Marketing and Internet Assistant. Our WigJig company partners with vendors to have our WigJig tools made and we partner with our fulfillment company to warehouse and ship all of our orders.

Jewelry Making Instructional Videos 

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Internet Jewelry Making Resources 

Beads, Jewelry Tools, Wire, & Jewelry Making Supplies by WigJig
Making jewelry with wire, beads and gemstones. 2500+ free web pages of designs. Online store selling jewelry tools, beads, wire and jewelry making supplies. This is our home page.
WigJig Beads -- Our Online Beading Supplies Store
Beads by WigJig an online beadstore. We also include Beadology -- information on the sizes, shapes, types and styles of beads. Page includes links to jewelry designs.
Jewelry Making Tools by WigJig -- Our Online Jewelry Tools Shop
WigJig Jewelry Making Tools. Information on the characteristics of each jewelry tool and jewelry making accessory. Further information about WigJig brand hand tools is also available.
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Jewelry Tools by WigJig -- Our Online Jewelry Making Tools Shop
WigJig jewelry making tools, beads, and other jewelry making supplies.
Ovals Jewelry Wire & Beads Earrings - A WigJig Jewelry Design
With every weekly WigJig newsletter we provide a new jewelry design from WigJig University to spur the creative juices. This lens focuses on the newsletter design Ovals Jewelry Wire & Beads Earrings shown left. This design is an advanced beginners jewelry making project and can be made on any Wi

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Brittany is the niece of Gary and Suzanne Helwig, owners of the WigJig company - and daughter of Marcia, the WigJig customer service represe...

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