Attaching a Clasp to 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. So far we've got our wire. We've got our charm, and we've put fake blood on it to keep the end from cutting us. And we've made our beads that will go in the center. And the glue on those is still--looks like it's still a little bit wet, so we'll let them dry a little bit more while we make the clasp for the charm. Now, this part when you bend the post up into this part of the safety pin, it's going to want to break. So an easy way to keep it from breaking, you don't want to have to bend this anymore than you really have to. If you bend it in the middle, there's going to be a whole bunch. There's going to be all these excess and it might not fit up into the clasp all that well. So you gotta be mindful of where you bend it. You're going to actually want to bend it a little bit-you're going to want to bend it off of center. You want to bend less than you want to bend. So if that makes any sense, bend off to the right, make sure that the right side is less than the left side. And with a pair of regular pliers, just grab it and bend over as far as it will go. And that still comes pretty close to the end as you can see. So now that you've bent light, now that you've bent this as much as you have, take the pliers, bend it a little bit more and make sure that your razorblade is going to fit inside your charm, or I mean inside your clasp. This is a little bit tricky. You might have to put it in a couple of different ways to get it to go in. There you go. We're in. And you can see that we've cut it just exactly perfect. There is not a lot of room for this to play around on. So all we have do from this point is just take the pair of pliers or fingers, if your fingers are strong enough, which mine aren't, and close that just like a regular safety pin and that will keep the clasp from going anywhere. The other one isn't as big of a deal because it's going to go in the end and it doesn't have to be super tight. It doesn't--there's--it just has to be on there where you can open and close it. So on the next step, we'll close this and then we'll put some glue on it to where it can't come apart and that way your bracelet will stay--the charm will stay on you bracelet forever. So we'll do that in the next step."