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Summary: Learn about how to make refurbished vintage jewelry with expert tips on remaking and refurbishing vintage jewelry in this free video clip.
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"This is making the necklace at Expert Village. So now we're going to look at taking our design concept from laying it out and now we're going to actually put the piece together. Here I'm going to take the earring and I have to cut off the back of the earring so that it can be now a pendant and I have a small piece underneath that I can use to wrap the rose quartz to. So the first thing I'm going to do is cut my chain into the size pieces I want to use for the necklace. So I'm going to start probably on the first section of it. I'm going to use about two inches. So I'm going to cut two inches twice and here I have my two inches twice. So now I'm going to take the wire and as I showed you before we're going to stick one part of the wire into the small whole of the pendant. We're going to take the round nose pliers. Put them next to where I have bent the wire. Take the wire around and wrap it tightly three times around the straight piece of the wire. You're going to form a tight wrap. That will make sure that the pendant stays in place. After you've done that, then you'll add the chain. Again you'll stick the wire through the chain bring it around and then wrap it three times. Now your chain is hooked to the pendant and then you'll go ahead, go down two inches where you have the chain and attach a rose quartz by using again the wire wrapping method and then you'll continue this process through each one of the stages of your development with the necklace and that's how you make the necklace."
eHow Article: How to Make a Refurbished Vintage Jewelry Necklace