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Today i'm going to show you how to make a caged bead.
Today we are using sixteen gauge craft wire I always use less expensive wire to practice
with before I go to precious metals.
You're gonna want to take
and cut an eight-inch piece of the craft wire.
With a pair of nylon jawed
flat nose pliers
you're gonna want to take out any of the kinks in the wire.
So I just pull it along
and try to take out as many as you can.
And now I take my round nose pliers and I place the very tip of the sixteen gauge wire
just about an eighth of an inch round up on my round nose to make a small circle.
Then i place the circle I just made between my nylon jawed parallel pliers and grasp of the
pliers pretty tightly and you're gonna take your thumb
and you're going to bend that wire up and you're going to open up the pliers.
Bend the wire up open the pliers
until you start making a spiral.
Once you start one end you want to go to the opposite end, make another
spiral with your chain nose
pliers.
Again take your loop and put it inside of the parallel flatnose pliers
in the opposite direction. You want to
make a spiral.
You keep altering back and forth until the spirals at the same size.
That's what you're spiral should look like when you're finished. Now you're gonna take your round
nose pliers and push it up through the center.
Push it up on the other side in the same direction.
Once the spirals are pushed up you're going to bend
the spirals together in half.
Once you finish bending it in half, your bead should look just like this.
And what we're gonna do now is we're going to open up that bead,
the caged bead
big enough to place
a round bead inside.
Then I just squoosh it down.
Once you place you're bead inside you set that aside to make an i-pin.
Cut off the piece of wire about five or six inches long to make the i-pin.
And take the tip
about an eighth of an inch up
and make a loop.
I bring the
pliers back and around to make the neck
and back to make
an i-pin. Now you want to thread the i-pin through the whole
of the cage bead into the hole of the bead. Straight down through until it comes out opposite
side.
I squeeze it down with my fingers
and then cut off about three eighth of an inch
and make the other part of the i-pin.
Make a loop.
So I put a little bit of a kink in it to give to give it a bit of a design
with my chain nose pliers.
It also helps tighten the caged
bead down on the top of the bead.
And there you have your caged bead. Go to Beadaholique.com for all of your beading supplies needs!