Video: Attaching a Clasp to a Beaded Necklace

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Attaching clasps can be difficult. Learn tricks for attaching a clasp and making sure it stays on in this free video clip about making jewelry with beads.

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kathyrclark Sep 16, 2011
thanks for the great selection of videos showing us the process for making jewelry. This was very helpful.
vabresch May 24, 2011
That's too bad because it was pretty interesting :)
Karen May 23, 2011
I could hear it but there was no video to see the close up?
joydel Nov 17, 2009
Nice close ups so we can see what you are doing, and the instructions are clear. Thanks!
bekah2 Dec 30, 2009
Great job, best video on jewelry making that I've seen so far!

Video Transcript

Now I'm finishing the necklace and as you can see here we've got the centerpiece right at zero. You kind of want to make the same distance from the zero to what this is here, with the clasp. And you can see where the beads are ending and it's like a little bit above eight. So I just want to make sure, looks like I need to add just a few more beads, to make sure it lines up just right to get to this line, because this is where I started. You want to end approximately the same distance to make sure this is in the center. So a few more beads I need to add. Now we're finishing the end of the necklace. We're putting two crimps on. And then we'll put the toggle clasp on. We're putting the crimps around both wires as well as the end of the toggle clasp. This would be finishing off our necklace. Just string it on. And then what we do is we get the end and we string it through the crimps, the two crimps, so that we'll be crimping the end of the necklace. So then we push it through and then we can see how I have it double looped just like that. And we pull it, snug it, a little tight. We have a nice tight necklace. Sometimes it's a little bit easier to use your needle nose pliers, the flat or the rounded and kind of, hang on to it here and kind of pull your wire, so you're making it snug. And you want a little bit of room there. You don't want it too tight, just enough so the clasp can move around. You just pull the ends here, this little snug. And what you want to do now, to finish it off, you got to crimp it. Crimp it down, nice and tight. Look at it, pull on it a little bit, make sure it's nice and tight. And if you have enough room what you can do is string your other ends through here, if your hole is big enough. If it isn't, you need to just go ahead and finish it off by using your wire cutters and cutting it as close as you can to the end here, so that you don't poke anybody in your neck when you have it on. Just go ahead and trim it. That's the end of your necklace. So go ahead, string it through here to your toggle clasp. And here is your necklace all strung up, nice and pretty.

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Attaching a Clasp to a Beaded Necklace

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