Placing The Bead On Recycled Jewelry

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Jason. I'm shooting on behalf of expertvillage.com today. We?re making a beaded necklace out of wire and beads out of coax cable and recyclable materials that I have found. We've already fixed up all the beads, we fixed up the charm, we've added the clasp and we've tied one knot in the necklace where we don't want any of the beads or the charm to pass beyond. Before we tie any more knots were going to put that first bead on. Just going to string it on, just simply put it through the edge, grab the end and pull it through up to the knot. Re-lie the bead down, look at both sides again and just take a quick note of how much, we saved about two inches on this side, the right side of the wire was two inches longer than this side. This is about half of an inch so far that we used up, so we want to make sure there's about an inch and a half difference and eye sight is good enough, just look and make sure that you got about an inch and a half difference in the length of the wire. We know our charm is going to go here, like I said before each time you run your fingers over it you'll lose the middle marking. We know this wasn't placed because we checked our marks before we saw the middle mark and now were just going to make another mark on center for the charm with a sharpie. Now we can either tie another knot and this will not go anywhere, this will just stay in between the two knots or we can make it so the bead and the charm could move freely in just this confined space. For this one I actually want to do the easier way which is two knots keeping everything in the middle of it. Next we will measure for the knots on either bead or the charm, make sure that were going to have enough wire leftover and then we will tie the knots and add the beads."