Linking Handmade Necklace Chains Together

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This is John Mendez with Expert Village. We are going to add our final connector to our piece with our Swarovski beads and then we are going to add our connector to the other side as well and then we are going to link them together with a giant jump ring, a twenty millimeter jump ring. So one of the keys to making this lay properly is that you have to get your connectors on going in the same direction, so you just don't want to put them on anywhere and crimp them anywhere, you need your connectors to lay flat so that when you add your jump ring your whole necklace will lay symmetrically. So see how your chain is flat and then your connector lies flat, the other side has to be the same so that your jump ring will connect this way. So you are getting a criss-cross at every connection and then you will have a nice clean look on your neck. So how I achieve that is I will go ahead and put your connector on, and it just slips right in really really easily. And you don't want to go too far to where you see it come out of its hole. You want to pull back a little bit and you can lay it down on the table and you can either crimp it from there or be confident enough to just pick it up and I have always found that if you hold it in your fingers this way and you watch how it will comes down and lays that way it's generally the same thing as laying it on the table. They will be going in the same direction and you can go ahead and just crimp closest to the edge with your cutters, not cutting all the way through just seeing that you get a nice pinch and then you will want to test it and see that they are laying the right way and....wallah...they are laying perfectly. And so when we get this finished you will have, I don't know, a dozen or so of these and linking them together to make a completed necklace. And we will complete this side and we will add a jump ring to both them and I will show you that next.

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