Designing the Clasp for a Razor Blade Bracelet

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"JASON HARRIS: Hi, I'm Jason with ExpertVillage.com. And today, we're making a bracelet out of wire and coaxial cable. And we've just finish our beads and the glue inside is drying. So next, what we're going to do is take the razorblade--that's what we're going to use for the charm on the bracelet and a safety pin. Take the safety pin and put in the razorblade and close it. Now, what do you want to do this for is to make sure that this--we're going to actually cut some of the safety pin away and make a clasp. It will hold the safety pin in place. You want to make sure that you've got plenty of room and you've got almost actually twice as much as you need. So we're going to cut the safety pin basically in half. One that I've done on another one, as you can see, is basically the safety pin. It's cut in half and then we're just going to bend it over. This keeps the--this will keep the charm in the middle of where it's supposed to be. And so you want to make sure that the safety pin you're using is big enough. This one is big enough. So we know that will work for the charm. And the other safety pin is the same size and we'll use it for the clasp on the back. Again, this is one I've already done, so we'll just look. It's obviously big enough. So in the next step what we'll do is I'll show you how to cut the safety pin where it's needed to be cut and fold it over. And it's something that you've gotta get right on the first or second try. If you bend it back and forth too many times, it's going to just break and you have to start over. So we'll make it and get it in place. And we'll actually put a little bit of glue on it so that nobody will be tempted to try to take it off and it will last forever that way. So in the next step, I'll go ahead and show you how to cut it off and make the clasp for the back and for the charm."