Choosing Glue for Making Jewelry: Part 2

Video Transcript

"This is John Mendez with Expert Village and I am going to show you what glues to use for the jeweled frames before we enamel them. I have chosen a jewelers glue which is a little runny but it ends up stiffening up very fast. Sometimes you can put a bead of this glue on your frame and let it sit for about two minutes before you put a rhinestone or a glass bead on there because you will want it to get tacky and if it has any dimension to it, you don't want it to slip and fall to the side. You want it to stay nice and upright, so you might want to let the sit for about two or three minutes and it will get some tackiness to it and then you can go ahead and put a bead on it and it wont fall off. The second option is to use a hot glue gun, which I have also used on the frame as well. And that can be for the larger beads, even for the smaller ones but you do have to use a high temperature hot glue gun for that and be very careful as to how much glue you use because you don't want to use too much glue because you will be able to see it and you don't want to have to go back and cut off all the little pieces of glue. The enamel can only hide so much so you want to use as little hot glue as possible. "