Rock & Gemstone Jewelry Stringing Tips

Video Transcript

"Hi there! On behalf of expertvillage.com my name is Candace Copeland. I'm to the point now where all I have to do is find the clasp. We talked about the shininess. This is a perfect little clasp for this necklace because it's got all that shiny silver that the piece that we were just working on did not have. You kind of come through. I've already got my little crimp bead on there. I want to add one more bead. Where is it? There it is. One more finish thing. There's the crimp bead in there and then there's the little finish bead. Then you run it through, loop it around, run it through the beads. It get a little tedious sometimes. This is probably my least favorite part of the bead making. There's got to be something that's tedious and this is it. This is where the whole crocks lays. If you do something and you don't crimp it right it all falls apart. This little tool, as you can see the little notches in there. That little notch tool fits right over that little crimp bead. Crimp down, then you turn it because it has a little edge. You take the top part of the crimp bead and give it another squeeze and that closes it up. Now you've got a nice solid little piece. Then I trim off the tail right down there to the edge. Then string this to make sure it gets nice and tight. Get right back up here and do a similar thing on the other side. Come right up through here then right down again through the center of all those little beads and pull it tight. This one you got to really then hold the necklace up. Pull it tight, pull it tight because you don't want any looseness in there. I think we're good. Again, take that little crimp thing. Go quick, turn it over and go. Then we do a little snip and we have a finished product. These are the little earrings that go with it. I think Rebecca is going to pleased with what this turned out to be as a set. "