[Jewelry making - Article 00273] - Re: [Orchid] Beaded Necklaces Keep Breaking

[Veronica Kubat]

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>     Unfortunately, the necklaces often wind up breaking. They would
>     usually break around the area where I had made the crimp. I either
>     crimped with beading pliers or crimping pliers. 

    Is it around the area of the crimp or at the crimp? Also, what gauge
    stringing wire are you using? I've never felt comfortable with a
    crimp on anything smaller than 19 or 49.013. I crimp with the
    crimping tool that folds the crimp over and then I give it a pinch
    with the flat pliers and a tug to check for security before I clip
    any excess. If you fill in between larger beads with very small seed
    beads or something similar size, the wire won't show. When you run a
    tail back through an inch or so, end it between two larger beads or a
    larger one and a small one, not two small ones, because it can be a
    little pokey; and just snug it down before you crimp. It's a little
    tricky, but also as someone else has suggested, cover the wire with
    seed beads of a coordinating color or silver or gold beads to finish
    it. A smidge (less than 1mm) showing around the crimp won't be
    noticed; besides, you need a little play for flexibility of the
    finished string, otherwise it will be too stiff and tight. 

Hope this helps.
Veronica
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