Making Beads for Recycled Jewelry

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Jason, shooting on behalf of Expert Village today. Next I'm going to show you the beads. These beads were already prepared before we started shooting. I'm going to show you where they came from. They came from a piece of cowax cable. No one will even be able to tell what they are. They almost look like a piece of leather. So what we're going to do, I just take an amount from a piece of the cowax cable cut into it, not all the way through the wire and twist the whole thing right off so the copper wire is still exposed and what we're left with is this. Inside there is still insulation left so we'll want to remove all of that. Just take the piece of copper wire and be careful you don't poke yourself and just push this center piece out and when it comes out you'll pull out all these little wires, just throw them away. What you're left with is a center you can thread wire through and put it back inside. Take a little glue, put a drop right inside on each side and we'll let that dry but before we do I just want to take the copper wire and thread it through and so the hole is not covered up and I do that on both sides so we can keep the hole open. So we have two beads almost prepared that way."