I recall when I get-go got the stance to brand jewelry. When it came to the technical aspect of tools together with components, equally a beginner, I had absolutely no stance where to start.
I had been making stained drinking glass together with also making mosaics out of stained drinking glass together with vintage broken china, when I started setting aside surely china shards that I would come upwards across that but seemed also exceptional to live pose into a mosaic. I knew they had to live the principal characteristic inwards whatever agency they were to live recreated, hence I laid them aside to hopefully 1 solar daytime plough them into jewelry.
When the solar daytime came to plough my soldered china prototypes into actual wearable pieces of jewelry, I had to instruct myself everything. Learning what the unlike components were together with what they were used for, learning almost unlike metals together with chains together with wire gauges was a fleck confusing at first, but I but took my fourth dimension together with figured it out the best I could. Then came the tools. Some looked similar they were from but about other planet! I chop-chop institute out that at that spot were a lot of tools that I actually DIDN'T need, together with that the most of import affair I needed was my ain inventiveness together with lots of practiced lighting.
But the whole indicate of this weblog postal service is that nosotros all bring to start somewhere. When y'all get-go start out, fifty-fifty the most elementary necklaces tin seem confusing when you're non surely what goes where.
In this beginner tutorial I volition demonstrate y'all how to get together a elementary chain necklace alongside a chain, clasp, together with charm. I chose an elephant charm for my project. You tin occupation whatsoever type of charm y'all like. This basic assembly volition snuff it minute nature to y'all chop-chop equally y'all do to a greater extent than jewelry.
Supplies needed:
Jewelry chain inwards desired length (I occupation 18")
Lobster-claw fashion clasp
(1) 4mm jump ring
(2) five to 5.5 mm jump rings
2 span of basic jewelry pliers (sometimes called chain olfactory organ pliers)
Jewelry chain inwards desired length (I occupation 18")
Lobster-claw fashion clasp
(1) 4mm jump ring
(2) five to 5.5 mm jump rings
2 span of basic jewelry pliers (sometimes called chain olfactory organ pliers)
First, get together your supplies. It's ever practiced to bring extra jump rings inwards representative y'all accidentally curvature 1 out of shape. Work inwards a well-lit area. Reading spectacles piece of work corking for helping to see modest components!
First nosotros volition add together a jump band to your charm (AKA your component, or your focal piece). Charms sometimes come upwards alongside jump rings already attached. Yay! Sometimes they don't. So we'll easily add together our own. Important: Make surely your large jump band that y'all are going to attach to your charm is large plenty to tally onto your chain. If it isn't, acquire a larger jump ring, or acquire a smaller justice chain.
First nosotros bring to opened upwards the jump band to thread our charm on it. We ever occupation 2 pairs of pliers to opened upwards jump rings. Using 2 pairs of pliers is of import because the jump band needs to live twisted alongside both ends turning away from each other (see photograph above).
To opened upwards your jump ring, agree the jump band alongside the seam side up, occupation 1 span of pliers inwards each manus to traveling pocket the jump band ends where they meet. Now occupation a modest twisting motion to split upwards the ends of the jump band hence that 1 halt goes upwards together with 1 goes downwards (see inwards a higher house photo). The most of import affair is that y'all do NOT push clitoris the ends apart from each other left to correct or y'all volition province upwards alongside a misshapen jump band that volition never closed properly.
Once your jump band is open, thread your charm onto your jump band equally shown inwards the photograph above.
Now closed the jump ring the same agency y'all opened it - using 2 span of pliers, 1 inwards each hand. Just traveling pocket the ends of the jump band together with carefully twist them dorsum together until they meet. If y'all listen a clicking audio when the ends come upwards together, that's good!
Now thread your charm onto your chain yesteryear putting the chain through the jump ring.
To complete your necklace all y'all demand to do is attach your clasp together with jump rings to your chain ends equally shown inwards the inwards a higher house photo. To do this, opened upwards your smaller (4mm) jump band using the same technique above, together with thread the loop that's on the bottom of your clasp onto the jump ring. Then thread the halt of your chain onto the same jump band together with and then closed the jump band equally nosotros did above.
Now attach your last, larger jump band to the contrary chain end. This jump band volition serve equally the grab for your clasp. That's it! You've pose together your get-go elementary chain necklace.
What did y'all think? Easy? Maybe adjacent fourth dimension nosotros volition add together but about coordinated beads...
Let me know what you'd similar to see!
Have a corking week!
love,
Laura
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