Making a Clasp for a Razor Blade Bracelet

Video Transcript

"JASON HARRIS: Hi, I'm Jason with ExpertVillage.com. And today, I'm making a bracelet out of wire and coaxial cable. What we need to do next is make the clasp for the back and for the charm. So we're going to take a safety pin, open it up and bend it backwards. The only reason we're bending it backwards is because we need to be able to cut as close to the circle at the end as we can. So take your wire cutters or needle-nose pliers or whatever you have and cut--and this might not go all the way through. Put the cutting edge as close to the circle as you can and we're not going to be able to cut. Push as hard as you can and just to make even--like you can see. We have--we started to cut through. It made a dent in there. So even though it didn't cut all the way through, that doesn't really matter. We're going to just take the--put the hoop in the middle with the needle-nose pliers and it will bend right where we started to cut. So just bend it back and forth and it will actually break off. I save these because I can also make other necklaces out of the back for a clasp, so don't throw this away. We'll just keep it for the future. Do that on both. Once again, you're just going to want to take the safety pin, bend it backwards, cut as close to the circle at the end as you can, put the center through your needle-nose pliers and bend. It breaks right off. So next, I'll show you how we actually bend this and fashion it into the clasp for the back and for the razorblade. We'll do that in the next step."