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hi I'm Nick Regine the professor of crystal
welcome to this episode of "ask the professor"
today I'm fortunate to have Wyatt White from Beadalon.
wyatt is the product manager for Beadalon and wyatt welcome
We know that you're gonna show us some basic jewelry techniques
yes thanks Nick, it's great to be here so wyatt
please show us what you have in front of you. well, when you're talking about basic
stringing
you really are talking about the the nuts and bolts of all jewelry
and you need to have the proper way to finish the ends
probably the biggest thing that people have a start with
and it's really not that difficult. we try to make it very very simple by
putting a lot of the information right on the spools of wire.
Right, this is a new bead called cabochette
it is a wonderful half faceted
half plane bead, which is just
very interesting and I think design wise it's going to be a very very
fun bead to use
then we have some what they call mini beads
in round and then oval and these particular beads
are crystal blue shade. wonderful new color
and I've selected today to be using
the beadalon satin silver 49 strand wire
49 strand because we want more flexibility. These beads are sort of
small
so they're gonna lay very nicely. So,
that blend right in with that color. it is almost gonna be like seamless.
yeah I think it's going to be really really lovely for and then of
course we gonna need a number two crimp bead because that's what I like to use
a number 2 crimp bead uses the standard Crimp plier
so we are just gonna pull some wire out and I don't,
I usually don't cut the Strand at
first when I'm stringing because you really don't
know how long you gonna make it. so I just start stringing
I like that you put the plastic back on to
hold the wire because sometimes you do see people cut it and then they
put
tape down on one end. Right - it actually gonna stop it from flawing.
right if you just
string right to the spool mh - is just a nice way
that you don't have to worry about the beads coming off either - great tip
so we're just gonna keep putting some beads on
just can it be a big bead, little bead
design at the moment and you can see
how this, how the wire
is blending very well with these beads
it virtually becomes invisible in this satin colors
with these particular crystal beads
now because we're using 49 strand 024 which is a
larger size of the beadalon wire
I'm gonna take the number 2 crimp bead because I like crimp beads better than crimp
tubes
personal preference only. put one of those out and you gonna string that
onto the end of your wire. I know some working at the end to the wire, I haven't
cut the wire yet
so we just need to work to one end right now
crimp beat goes on, goes through the clasp
and just run this back through the crimp bead
now
when you pull this, the wires is gonna cross
here you can see that the wire has crossed itself. To uncross it you just
need to twist
and then hold with your left hand here so those wires stay parallel
inside the crimp bead. that can be a problem
when you crimping as well because you don't want the wire on top the wire and then
crimp it
the wires need to be side by side. the crimp tool
is the best way to
finish this. you place the
crimp bead on the end
and you mash. that makes it oval
and you bring the oval back here to the back part of the
crimp plier and that's gonna sort of form it into a bean shape
that center portion is gonna push it down. you can notice here
that there's a wire on one side and a wire on the other side. that's the
important part of keeping those wires parallel inside there
so you don't have wire cutting wire inside there. that's a great tip for beaders
then you're gonna turn ninety degrees
and then place that back in the end of the crimp plier
and you're going to squeeze and that should fold it over on itself
that's all the crimping that you need to do
that's the proper way to crimp and the most
safe for damaging the wire
the least when crimping. A lot of times
the issues that will arrive, will arrive
from incorrectly crimping.
okay so wyatt you put on the crimp bead showed us how to properly do that. what is
the next step
well the next step, I'm gonna cut the wire here I didn't
put the wire back through the beads because I'm using these
bead bumpers at the end. so I'm gonna cut this very close
to the crimp bead so you just gonna pull these away a little bit
I am gonna use a flush cutter. okay. and a flush cutters
is a plier that has a flush surface that should always be facing the part of
the jewelry that's gonna be left
so in order to get in flush or close you need to just slide that in there
and just very carefully snip that of
so now we have that done. now if you wanna fancy this up a little bit
which I've course do. we're going to use a
crimp cover and I think because of the
clasp i think i am just gonna use a plain one on this one
so I just need to get one of these out. they're sort of like a little pac-man
bead that's
got its mouth opened and you just have to feed it with the
crimped crimp bead. okay. so
I just feed the little
crimp cover
with the crimp bead
now I take the mighty crimp plier
to close it. so I'm just gonna put it at the very
end and carefully close first one side
a little bit, and roll it over, and close the other
I just want that to come together
and I just go sort of back and forth, trying not to marr the surface
of the crimp cover. just get that
close, nice and tight. just like that and you've got your
crimp cover now over the crimp
bead. that looks a lot more decorative thats really great
I now just push the bead bumpers
up to the edge of the crimp cover and then slide the beads down
now we're gonna do the same process on the other side
and that cush portion right here is gonna give you,
its gonna give the wire the amount of
movement necessary so that the wire doesn't try to
unstrand to give itself
the movement that it needs.
now we're to the other side so we're gonna cut the wire
I like to use about, it is about two inches
for this end, just that you have enough to be able to
move the wire around. so first we're gonna string on
are 3
bead bumpers
and the third
slight these down
meant to be go just like that
and bend the bracelet in half
or the necklace so that you have a little bit
of space there too. because as the wire curves around the beads it needs to
be a little bit longer
then we're gonna take another crimp bead, same size
I do like the
bottles that the crimp beads come in it makes it so easy to
keep things tidy. String on the crimp bead
and then I take the clasp apart
to attach. Just it is easier than trying to have the
whole thing connected. string through
then back through your crimp bead
and again you will have that crossover but it
it becomes easier as you notice it.
and then take whenever you're crimping to
and use that to twist the wire so that it will be parallel
on the inside. the two wires are parallel. and get that
loop about the same size as the other one.
we will wanna leave a little bit of a space because we're gonna put a crimp
cover there
as well. Again taking the pliers
make sure that's
parallel
we are gonna oval it and we gonna be in shape it
we are gonna turn it
ninety degrees. and we gonna crimp this down. and again
this works with the number of the crimp bead or the crimp tube
and the wire because we've designed it to make sure everything goes
together well
that's why you don't need to put extra smashing on it
and again just snip it. We will pull this back a little bit so we can put our
crimp cover. And with that
just the same as we did with the other one. tie it in there
mighty crimp
plier, you don't want to catch that
the wire in the closure
when I just keep kind of turning it, moving it
so you can get that just clamp down
you want that seem to be as closed
without being smashed. which takes a little bit of practice but then
you're good. so now we have are finished piece
that's professionally crimped
has on the crimp cover over the crimp bead
and has the proper amount of cush
from those bead bumpers so that you can do something like this
and it still got a little bit of give. so that gives it a really really nice
its using wire and getting the feel of textile
Wyatt, great job. I mean you make it look so easy
so wyatt, the other pieces that you have in front of us, do you mind explaining that to
us and
see what's that's all about? now that's a
design that I have created many years ago and we call it the watusi stringing
style
it is another basic stringing
technique utilizing three strands of wire instead of just one
okay. what we did earlier was a single strand, now this is using two strands.
there are two strands going through the center
and then a third strand that is sort of whatusis
around those beats. so if somebody really wants to see this technique done, do you
have this up on your website? we do. they can go to the beadalon website and its in
the gallery and you can find all the instructions on it
there is also a YouTube video on the beadalon YouTube channel
nice nice! I'd like to take this opportunity wyatt, to
say thank you so much for helping our customers to learn about
bead stringing and basic jewelry-making! It was my pleasure
thank you for having me. I know people are really going to enjoy the segment
again
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