How to Make Chain Jewelry Necklaces

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Hi this is Debra Windsong with Expert Village. In this clip we'll talk about necklaces made from chain, and there are a lot of different kinds of chain, a lot of styles out there. What I normally look for is a medium weight chain because I am thinking that I want it to be strong enough to hold a few beads on it. There are lighter chains out there and you really can't do a whole lot of heavy work on the light chains, so just keep that in mind. If I want to use this for a clasp, I'm going to have to make sure that it is big enough for the trigger clasp to get through. This one here is a fashionable chain. It's got round and very narrow oval links. What I did with it is I put a pendant on the end of it and I attached it with a bale, and I also made cuts in the chain in various lengths and I added a piece of wire that I strung a bead on. For this chain, it's very adjustable, because you can attach it to any one of the larger links on the upper end of the chain. To attach the pendant to the chain, you'll need a certain size bale. Your bale is going to depend on the size of the chain and whether or not you want to link it right onto one of these links or have it move freely. The reason you might want it to slide freely is if you adjust the length you want to be sure that this is still falling in the middle as you wear it. The advantage that there is to working with chain instead of the cord or the wire is that you don't have to do as much work to get the clasp on. It's usually a matter of simply opening up your jump ring and attaching the clasp. Also, when you do open up the jump ring, it's very important that you take two flat nose pliers and just gently twist slightly so that you can twist back again and have it be a round cirlce easily instead of getting it all twisted out of shape.

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