I’m
with the Potomac bead company and I'm just going to give you some ideas for
what to do with some of your chain ends, and also feature one of our new pewter
links that we have. That's a loop here, you didn't use any toggle ring for
this. I've attached it here to some leather cording. We're in the Ocean City
New Jersey store so this is kind of a little trinket Ocean City memory charm
bracelet, it has a little jewellery charm on
here as well as the OC.
I'm
also going to show you how to attach a fish and also to use some of the chain,
for this when you're doing these, you're going to use some head pins which are
going to have a little stop at the end and you're going to be making some
loops, as well as some raw wire to attach to your loop. Again a toggle loop
will work, any sort of soldered loop is best to use for this technique. I have
my round nose pliers that I'm going to be using to make round loops, I have my
wire cutters that I'm going to be using to cut the wire, as well as the chain
and then I also have my needle nose pliers.
To
start out I'm going to decide what length of chain I want to have here and I'm
going to cut it to the length that I want. So this one here I have attached the
seahorse charm directly to the link using a jump ring. This one here the fish,
I want to hang a little bit longer so I'm going to figure out exactly how long
I want him to hang on my little trinket necklace. I'm going to cut the
appropriate length of links and open up here, once I have the appropriate
length of links I'm going to go in. I'm taking a small little jump ring here,
so here's just a tiny little four millimetre jump ring. You can use a four, you
can use a six, because there's a lot of chain going on you won't see it and I'm
going to hang my fish from the bottom loop of my jump ring.
I
already have my jump ring open and then I’ll show you how to close it up
properly. So I'm going to slide my jump ring on there, I'm going to slide my
little fish charm on. I'm going to close up my jump ring, when you close the
jump ring you want to make sure that you're closing it completely and you want
to close it past where you think it's going to actually be tightly closed, to
make sure that that's nice and closed and lining up. Because you don't want to
see a seam on that jump ring.
Now
my fish is attached to the bottom of my jump ring, I'm also going to hang from
that jump ring, I'm just using a head pin, I'm going to hang a little bead to
go with it too. It's kind of in Browns and tans here I'm going to put a little
blue bead on it just so you can see the bead that's hanging, not jumbled in
this and I'm using gold wire so you can see the difference in the wire. I'm
going to put the bead on the head pin, drop it down next to the pin base, take
my flat nose pliers and I'm going to leave myself a fairly large length because
I'm going to be attaching this directly to my link.
I'm
going to leave right there is about a quarter of an inch, Bend my wire, make my
loop. I'm going to make it fairly large so that way it can freely move around
my link and once I have it nice and large here, and I have my link, what I'm
going to do is I'm going to open up that loop that I’ve just made and I'm going
to coil around that wire. So now that it's in there and that's not going to
come off your link at all and I'm coiling down towards the base of the head
pin. I'm just going to kind of freeform coil down a little bit. I don't want it
to look perfect because it's kind of a whimsical necklace and it's also going
to add a little bit of a wire working look to it.
I
can then tuck in my end or just for demonstration purposes, I'm going to take
my round nose pliers, just kind of round out the edge so it's not going to grab
on to anything, and tuck it back. Now that's going to be another little feature
that's going to hang right there from the trinket necklace. When I go back to
the fish now, in order to hang the fish onto the ring, what I'm going to use is
a raw piece of wire. I'm going to make another loop on this side just like I
did at the top here, bending my wire back, making a little loop going over the
top of my pliers, switching to the bottom. I make a little loop here, this loop
I'm going to hook my chain into, so you can see that the loop here is not
closed.
I'm
going to slide that open loop of chain and kind of click it right into that
loop. I'm going to hold that there and I can coil around that extra wire if I
want it to be coiled. Cut off the extra a little bit there and now what I'm
going to do is attach it to the chain, if I want to I can get fancy. Then I’ll
show you just attaching a bead in between. I can attach a bead in between or I
could do this without a bead either way.
I'm
going to leave myself just a little bit of room about an eighth of an inch bend
the wire back with my flat nose pliers, grab with my round nose over the top of
the round nose pliers till it hits on the other side, switch from the top jaw
to the bottom jaw and take it back. Again I'm making this loop fairly large, so
that way I can also put that loop and that piece of wire through and attach
that on to my chain. Just like I did with a smaller chain, I'm attaching this
to the link. Again I'm going to hold either with my needle nose pliers or my
round nose depending on how much room you have in there and I'm going to coil
the extra wire around the top of the bead.
Cut
that off and you can make this as busy or as little as you want for that
trinket necklace to add a little bit to the look of it. I do have this pretty
long, it's about a 24 or 26 inch length necklace, so that way it hangs down a
little bit on you. When you do pick it up and kind of drape it they're all
going to form right together. You can add, you can take away, you can kind of
add whatever you like again any sort of toggle loop for work for this. This is
a pewter finding that we have a pewter link you could go bigger, smaller but
this is going to give you an idea for how to work with some of your chain ends,
as well as if you have any open links. Check out our local your local Potomac
bead company for some of these supplies and any help if you need it. As well as
if you need any help with the twisting or with the bending, as well as opening
and closing the jump rings, you can check out our other YouTube wire working
videos. In addition to YouTube and to our Facebook pages you can also check us
out on Instagram, the bead CO or Potomac bead CO and you can pretend we be
companying, you can look and see some of the different designs that we come up
with as well. So thanks a lot for watching and hopefully you have fun with a
bunch of your chain ends. You can mix and match colours and just throw a bunch
of stuff crazy stuff together and it makes a nice little silver charm necklace and bracelet chains.
