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Hi! This is Julie with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you how to use cup
chain ends
so when you have a length of cup chain you'll notice that the end
is not finished
it comes to a blunt stop. You can't really attach a jump ring. You can't do a
lot with it other than glue it or embed it in crystal clay which are both
great options or sometimes you want to turn it into
a necklace or a bracelet. You want to have a way of attaching a jump ring or a
clasp to it
and so that's when cup chain ends come in handy and that's what these little guys
are
you can see that they have little prong settings and you're going to
go ahead
fit the end of link of you're cup chain into the cup chain ends
it's going to look
like this
what that allows you to do
is to those little end loops attach a jump ring
and then attach a clasp
and make a finished piece of jewelry
so it's really easy to do this
and the first thing you're going to do is
figure out the size of your cup chain and then the corresponding size of the
cup chain end. So that's important to figure out cuz you see they come
in different sizes, you wanna make sure you choose the appropriate size for your
cup chain and that's all listed on the beadaholique.com website
so once you've found the size that is appropriate, take your cup chain
the last link
and you get a set it right down into the cup chain end
and you can see there's a little notch right there
that allows for this little metal bridge to fit right in
there, it's actually
going to hold it
now fold over the side tabs
now what I like to do is take a pair of chain nose pliers
very carefully, you don't want to hurt the crystal and holding the cup chain end
by the loop
the chain is resting in there, it's pretty secure
depress
the side and let it folds over
do that on the other side
there you go
and now
that is in there, it's not going anywhere and now you have a perfect loop to attach a
jump ring, a clasp or some other jewelry component to it, than you can make a lot
of different jewelry styles
very simply now
by using these cup chain ends in correspondence with the cup chain. Go to www.beadaholique.com to purchase beading supplies and to get design ideas!