How to Make a Leather Necklace With a Clasp
Make a leather necklace with a leather lace cord and beads in your favorite color. Keep the beads in place with knots and attach coil ends or spring coils to the ends of the lace. Coil ends look like small tightly wound springs with a loop at one end. Clasps are attached to the loops and are used to hold them in place.
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Things You'll Need
- Leather glue
- Cotton swab
- 2 jewelry coil ends
- Chain nosed pliers
- Beads, assorted colors
- 2 jump rings
- Round nosed pliers
- Lobster claw clasp
Instructions
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Apply a small drop of glue to the end of the leather lace and spread it 1 inch down onto the lace from the end with a cotton swab. Fold the end 1 inch over onto itself. Insert the folded-over and glued end into the coil end. Twist the leather lace as you push it into the coil end to ease it in.
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Grasp the coil end with the chain-nosed pliers and press the coiled end down to crimp it shut. Crimp it shut two rings down from the top on the coil end.
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Slide beads onto the leather lace in the desired order. To have floating beads that remain at the focal point of the necklace, tie a simple knot right before where you want the bead to sit, slide the bead on and tie another simple knot after it to keep it in place.
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Glue the free end of the leather lace and spread it 1 inch down from the end with a cotton swab. Fold the end over 1 inch and insert it into the coil end. Crimp the coil end with chain-nosed pliers.
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Open the jump ring by holding it on either side with round-nosed pliers on one and chain-nosed pliers on the other and bending one side up and one side down to open it without bending it out of shape. Slide the jump ring onto the left end of the coil ring. Close the jump ring by bending the sides back up or down respectively into place with the pliers.
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Open another jump ring the same way. Slide the jump ring onto the loop at the end of the coil ring. Slide the bottom ring of the lobster claw clasp onto the jump ring. Close the jump ring to finish attaching a clasp to your leather necklace.
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