Beaded Jewelry Techniques : How to Use Crimp Ends

Hello! My name is Leonardo Martinez at legendary beads at Austin and today I’m going to show you to how to use crimp ends. Here we have a little short bracelet, I’m gonna put on spacers add your crimp, clasp and back through your crimp, like to hold your soft flex just a wire here, back through your spacers. We have two types of crimping tools; first one is a mighty crimper which has two little go-lays, placing the end of the go-lay, the bead at the end on inside go-lay of your crimper, smashing it down and then turn it at the right angle and rounding it, and then clipping perpendicular as in that cut your necklace.

Here we have a crimping tool, the magical crimper has a rounded inside groove; place here the crimp inside the rounded groove, pressing down, and you’ll have the ravioli looking crashed crimp, turning your magical tool at the right angle and smashing that down to be round and I like to kind to attempt that down so you have a nice two millimeter bead. This is your magical tool, and this is how you use crimp end.