Painting the Beads of 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. We've already got the wire that we're going to use. We've made the beads out of the coaxial cable. We need to bend this safety pin for the clasp on the back, and we have the clasp for the charm already made. And the glue is inside and that's strong. While that's drying, we're going to bend the safety pin for the clasp here and we're going to paint the ends of our other beads, and then we can start measuring and tying knots in the wire while everything else is drying. So this is just like before. We're not--we don't want to bend in the center. If we bend in the center, we're not going to have--we're going to have too much excess and it won't fit inside. So a little bit off center, take and just bend. An easy way to do it, I just hold that side, the ones I tied with the pliers, and then just bend up with my thumb. And now that we've got that far, I'll just bend on top towards--now, I don't want to go all the way in because I'm going to want to fasten this on the wire. So just to make sure that's going to fit, I bend the pliers down to make sure that it's going to catch on the inside of there which it is. So I'll leave this one just like this until we're ready to tie it onto the wire. And I'm also in this step going to paint--let's have a paint marker. I'm just going to paint really quick. The ends of the white part of the bead and this won't go on really super black or anything but we're going to tie knots on there, just basically you want to off-color so it doesn't--it's not white against black. So it's a little bit gray. We'll do that on both sides. And if you want to use a Sharpie or even actual paint, they work just as well. Actually that marker isn't working too well. I'm going to use another one and that one's going to work better. So we'll just paint the ends. In that way, it looks more like a bead. So we'll measure for the bracelet and start tying knots next."