How To Make Handmade Jewelry Beads For Making Jewelry

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  Step 1

  Step 1: Make basic coils

  1. Take your wire and start to wind your wire around a mandrel. To make a common sized bead, find a cylindrical object with a diameter of 6mm;

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  Step 2

  step1-2. When you have made enough coils, remove the mandrel. Each handmade jewelry bead needs 12 coils);

  step1-3. Snip the coils twice to create three equally sized pieces .

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  Step 3

  Step 2: Assemble the coils into a bead

  1. Pick up two of the components and hook one onto one another as if you were putting your keys onto a key ring;

  2. Once you’ve attached them together, they should look like the second image below;

  3. Take the 3rd coiled component and insert it onto one of the above two pieces in same way;

  4. The only thing left to do is to join the two outer coils together;

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  Step 4

  step2-5. When you’re finished, you’ll get a bead as shown below.

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Joybells · Norfolk, Virginia, US · 23 projects 20th July 2013

Thanks for this really easy tutorial. I'll definitely have to try this!

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