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Two Strand Toggle Problems
My wife is putting out a line of watch bracelets using beads, watch
faces of course, two hole toggles and .018 Beadalon wire. My wife does the designing and beading and I do the finishing work, eg., attaching the two hole toggles with crimp tubes and putting on the crimp covers. Most of the time things go just fine but about a quarter of the time, the wire gets a twist into it which puts a twist into the entire half of the beaded bracelet. If the twist it too noticable, it has to be restrung and recrimped until it goes together without the twist. Has anybody else run into this sort of problem and how did they manage to work around it. Thank you, Bob |
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Two Strand Toggle Problems
On Jun 7, 3:16 pm, "Bob Common" wrote:
My wife is putting out a line of watch bracelets using beads, watch faces of course, two hole toggles and .018 Beadalon wire. My wife does the designing and beading and I do the finishing work, eg., attaching the two hole toggles with crimp tubes and putting on the crimp covers. Most of the time things go just fine but about a quarter of the time, the wire gets a twist into it which puts a twist into the entire half of the beaded bracelet. If the twist it too noticable, it has to be restrung and recrimped until it goes together without the twist. Has anybody else run into this sort of problem and how did they manage to work around it. Thank you, Bob Can you not just cut the crimp, un-twist the wire and re-crimp without restringing? I only made 1 4-strand (connected strands) necklace so far, and I made sure to lay it out flat before crimping the end, and while the strands may twist when wearing it, it's otherwise flat, in spite of connecting the 4 strands with a split ring at the end and covering with a coil. If that makes a difference (it may), I use SoftFlex. I would think that beading cable in something as short as one half of a watch band should un-twist itself as I don't have twists in my 30" necklace. Aloha, Maren Maren Purves HiloBeads: Beads - Beading Supplies - Hand-made Jewelry http://www.hilobeads.com/ Blog at: http://hilobeads.blogspot.com/ - Job's Tears & Mgambo/weleweka beads available - |
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Two Strand Toggle Problems
Beadalon is notorious for twisting, crimping and eventually breaking
at the kink. Upgrade to Softflex 019 and you won't have that problem. Patti |
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Two Strand Toggle Problems
On Jun 9, 12:49 pm, Patti wrote:
Beadalon is notorious for twisting, crimping and eventually breaking at the kink. Upgrade to Softflex 019 and you won't have that problem. That's why I decided to have a go at the local market for Softflex here in Hilo: I'm the only local seller of it. I got my first spool from Ben Franklin, but they have since stopped carrying it (they only have the very fine SoftTouch, and for most of what I do that's too thin.) Maren HiloBeads: Beads - Beading Supplies - Hand-made Jewelry http://www.hilobeads.com/ Blog at: http://hilobeads.blogspot.com/ (got SoftFlex, 2 colors, 3 diameters) |
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