Take a shop class at a local college, perhaps a welding class. Buy a sauttering iron....and research sauttering as an art....a sauttering iron is not really used for making jewelry that I know of, but I believe it would definitely work somehow....also, research blacksmith info.

Have you thought of wire wrapping?

They have them here. What are you looking for in particular? There are sites that sell mostly charms - you could ck there

Check out the Alphabet Silver beads at Artbeads they have a good selection that I bet you could design your own charm. Sincerely Sharon

I had the same question so I decided to use the jump rings that double around itself (sorry, cannot remember what they are called, but just search jump rings). Also there is a tool available to open them. Otherwise I would NEVER get them opened. By design they cannot accidently open when snagged, etc.

You may not be a beader now but once you've made exactly what you want, for less than you could have purchased it in a store, you'll be hooked too!

Check the finished chain selections. Most of them have a small enough ring to slip a charm right onto it. All the charms come with a "jump ring" that is (normally) opened with tools to add to whatever. Depending on the size ring, you might be able to manage this without tools. If not, be sure to check the tutorial on this site for opening jump rings. There's a wrong way and -let me tell you- you can't bend them back. The hardest part for you will be choosing which charm!

Have fun future beader!

You may be describing a tube link bead:
http://www.artbeads.com/sterling-silver-jewelry-tube-links.html

Or perhaps one of these spacer beads:
http://www.artbeads.com/sa-0438.html

You can purchase one of our finished bracelets found here:

http://www.artbeads.com/wire-and-chain-chain-bracelets.html

And attach your charms to the links as described in this handy tip:

http://www.artbeads.com/howtoatchord.html

You can also check out this video we made for further assistance:

http://www.artbeads.com/guy-video.html

The Metal Stamps can be used on copper as well as metals.  For some simple instructions for Metal Stamping please follow the link below:
http://www.artbeads.com/how-to-stamp-metal.html

Artbeads carries 8mm and 17mm sterling letter charms. Not sure if that helps, as I don't know which ones you ordered. 17mm are the biggest ones I've seen on the site.