How to Put Clasps on a Handcrafted Bracelet

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Ella Seltzer for Expert Village. Now I'm going to show you how to add the lobster clasp onto the end of your bracelet. Once again, you're going to add a crimp tube on the other side of the bracelet cutting off the excess chain. And then adding in a jump ring and then you slip the lobster clasp onto the jump ring and close it with your two pairs of pliers. I just want to add an important piece of advice concerning lengths of bracelets and not making a bracelet too big or too small. You have to bear in mind that the, in this specific example, and many other things you might make the clasp plus the jump ring plus the other jump ring add two and a half centimeters onto your bracelet. So if you are working on your bracelet and you're trying to figure out, is it going to be too big? Is it going to be too small? You want it to go around your wrist and know that when you add two and a half centimeters onto it it's still going to be a good size it's not going to too big and it's not going to be too small. It's a little bit of trial and error. Once you have, or unless you have a bracelet that already fits you perfectly and you can measure it up against that bracelet. But everybody has a different wrist size and so therefore I can't give any specific, exact guidelines as to what length the bracelet should be."