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Hi this is Megan with Beadaholique.com and going to show you
how to make this simple spiral sea glass pendant
and I'm just using a sea glass bead
and some nice
twenty gauge sterling silver wire
so it's really quick and easy.It's a really simple
wire wrapping project
The only wrapping is actually a wrapped wire loop
it's good if your not hugely
familiar with doing all this or
even if you just on a nice simple project
I'm going to start with just about eight inches of wire
I like to cut a little more than I need
If you find you don't need that much you can cut less
it is not overly cheap wire
take the clean end I just cut and bead it into a spiral
doesn't have to be perfect either
first I'm going to
straighten it a little bit
if it's really coiled up you can actually
use the the nylon pliers to straighten it
This is half hard wire I'm using
so it will
take a bend relatively easily
find the nice flush end you just cut, take some round nose pliers
and just
take the very tip of the wire
and bend it around
when you're not quite done
I'm going to use regular chain nose pliers because I'm going to hammer this so
I'm not really worry if it gets a little tiny bit marked up
and it will grip it better so I'm just gonna take the loop I made
and put it into the chain nose and
grip that
and then just start bending the wire around
and I want my spiral to have a little bit of room. It doesn't need to be
super tight coils
rotate it as you can
keep it the way
you want it to look. If you want it to be a little tighter in, you can do it that way too
this is very kind of
free-form project
you can do it whichever way that you like best
I have a
bench block
and a rubber block to absorb the shock
I'm using
a little mallet
for this
I'm just going to hammer
all over the spiral
and then just right up next to where the spiral is
just to flatten it out
then flip it over
to the other side
when you're happy with
the hammered look and how that is
gonna pick
a sea glass bead
whichever
one you want for your pendant. I like this one it's almost a nice drop shape
decide where you want that spiral to sit
right at the end of for my hammering is great so
I'm going to make a bend
with my round nose pliers
to help that kind of bend nicely
around the curve when it goes to that side of the bead
so that's more a gradual bend
then
I want it to bend where it's going to go into the hole to be
more square off. So I'm going to go ahead and use
chain nose pliers
and make that bend
more squared
then
at that point it's a little bit of
wiggling around and making it work
make this bend
in
and over a little to center the spiral over the
back piece of wire
then I'm going to try it out
see how it
gaps up
a little bit
I'm going to go in bend it a little bit more because I want to sit flat
Im going to
use my fingers
and bend it down flat
and then put it back to see if I like the setting
I want it over to the side
make it the way you want
I'm pretty happy with how that is and where the spiral is and all that
so I'm gonna create a wrapped wire loop
I'm using wire looping pliers. You can also just use round nose and chain nose
and I want my loop
to sit front to back instead of
side to side so I'm going to make my loop
that way to use it as a bail to hang on the chain
and don't forget the bead is glass so
don't be too tight
onto the bead when you're doing your loop
otherwise when you tuck the end in
you might break the top of the bead
you can go ahead and
straighten that out and then you can hang it on a chain
it's a really quick and easy way
to really showcase a
pretty glass bead. Go to www.beadaholique.com to purchase beading supplies and to get design ideas!