Hide those ugly crimp beads with a sleek and chik crimp cover!
Project Level: Beginner Time to Complete: Depends on experience
Ingredients
- Clasp
- Strung necklace or bracelet
- 2x2 Crimp Bead
- Crimp Cover
Studio Essentials
- Soft Flex or Beadalon
- Crimp Tool
- Flush Cutters
Once you have finished crimping your stringing wire with crimping pliers, your ready to put on the crimp cover.
Hold the crimp cover in theouter jaw(oval-shaped hole) of the crimping pliers. Note: the orientation of both the open plier jaw and the open crimp cover are the same.
Place the crimp cover over the rimp bead on the stringig wire.
Once the crimp is inside the cover, gently squeeze the crimp cover closed.
Go easy! If you squeeze the crimp too hard it can collapse.
Now the crimp bead is hidden inside.
