Nice jewelry work!

On the stainless wire difficulties:

Choosing the stainless wire makes a big difference, lower percentages of chromium and vanadium result in a softer steel so would be easier to work....that and power tools. I make jump rings using stainless wire from Lowe's frequently as it is fairly ductile for a stainless.

Anneal, wind onto a piece of wooden dowel and use a cut-off wheel in a flexible shaft tool or Dremel to cut the wire.

To anneal the wire I normally just bind the coil tightly and toss it in the charcoal grill after the food is off then retrieve the coil after the remaining coals have burnt out and everything has cooled off. I lose some wire to oxidation but I don't flux because it would wreck the grill.

Putting all those little rings together to make jewelry like you have....not happening here....I suffer from repetitious motion boredom.:biggrin: