Some suggestions of making quality, finished pieces of jewelry
Some suggestions of making quality, finished pieces of jewelry
1) Make sure you use the correct string or wire: This is a key factor. Some strings are not strong enough for the weight of certain beads, and some wires will kink regardless of the beads you use. Evaluate what you will be making and determine what is appropriate.
2) Purchase a set of jewelry pliers: These are pliers specifically designed for jewelry crafting. They are small, and easy to handle. This set should include a minimum of a pair of flat pliers, cutting pliers, and round-tip pliers. You will need these specific pliers for curling the edges of head pins, constant snipping of excess edges of wires, and crimping.
3) Purchase your curling technique: Curling technique is vital. You could have a beautiful pair of earrings that appear ruined, because your attachment curl is sloppy.
*Leave one inch (or cut to one inch) of wire at the end of a head pin after the beads are set.
*Use your flat pliers to grip the wire at the top of your beads, and bend it to a 90-degree angle.
*Switch to your round tip pliers, and grip the end of the wire, and rotate your hand to curl the wire. Practice this technique until you achieve a nice clean hook shape for attaching to jewelry findings for handmade jewelry making such as earring findings etc.
4) Use a tray: Dropping all your beaded work off of a wire/string is bad enough, loosing your beads to the carpet is worse. In the event that you drop your beads, you will at least have a tray for them to fall onto.
5) Use the proper findings: Findings are the little metal pieces that complete a piece of jewelry. These include clasps, bails, headpins, jump rings, etc. Using the proper jewelry findings will create a finished, quality appearance to your jewelry, and a stronger structure.
6) Use extra wire/stringing materials: By allowing an extra length to work with you are giving yourself a little bit of breathing room. Many times I am working from both ends of a string to create a symmetrical pattern. So securing one end and working my way down to the other end is usually not an option with me. I allow extra string so that I am less likely to loose beads if I drop one or even both ends. Extra string will also allow a certain degree of flexibility when it comes time to crimp the ends.
7) Use crimp beads: Crimp beads are tiny metal sections of tube, which you place at both ends of the string to prevent the beads from falling off. I personally feel using crimp beads are far more secure then knotting (however sometimes knotting is still a necessity).
*Place the string /wire through the crimp bead once, and then wind the end through the bottom and up once more.
*Pull the string tight around the bead.
*Then "crimp" the bead (use a flat pair of pliers and pinch the bead until it is flat). This process secures the edges of the wire/string.
*After you have secured the string snip off any excess before adding your findings. Occasionally findings will go on before you use the crimp bead, so make sure you have your sequence in order before you secure and snip.
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