Tips for Buying Supplies for Handcrafted Jewelry

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Ella Seltzer for Expert Village. When you go into a bead store, you will not only be dazzled by the array of beads and pearls and crystals and glass beads and acrylic beads and wooden beads, also it's quite mind boggling the number of accessories there are clasps and different things which help you finish off your piece of jewelry. And in the same way there are many different types of beads, there are many, many different types of clasps and there are even many different types of crimp tubes and I'm just showing you a few examples because you have to be very careful when you go shopping that you get the right thing. That's why it's often recommended to just order a kit if you just want to have fun making jewelry and not have the headache of buying exactly the right thing for the piece of jewelry you've got in mind. This is what we're using today and these are the crimp tubes that I like the best because they're sort of curled at the end that means they're easier to close. This is a much larger one which is very suitable for, if you're working with rubber or leather, if you're making a pendant or something and you want to finish it off. You just want to have it hanging on a thick cord. This is more suitable for wires got a tiny, tiny hole and this is one that I don't like because it's squared off at the ends and it just doesn't look as nice as ones that are called round so just keep away from those if you can."