Choosing A Clasp for A Box Bracelet

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This is John Mendez with Expert Village and now I have my clasp and since this is a wide bracelet, I have chosen a six loop clasp. And this is a slide clasp so you get a nice clean edge when it's closed and it looks like it infinite crystal going all the way around your wrist. So what we are going to do is we are going to use our point fourteen cable wire. We are going to string it in the far end and we are going to loop it over and that is how it's going to connect. But before we put that one we are going to add a crimp bead. There are so many types of crimp beads out there, its really confusing. A lot of people get confused with crimp beads and what size to use. This is a one by one millimeter crimp bead. It's a sterling silver crimp bead and I always recommend whether using sterling silver or not, when you are using crimp beads always use the sterling or gold filled, only because if you get plated ones they tend to be brittle because they are a steel base and they won't close nicely. They will tend to crack at the seams so sterling and gold filled doesn't have that problem. So once you have put that on you can string one side and loop it all the way back into itself so it looks like a giant lasso. You can leave it as long as you want for now because we are going to push that crimp bead almost to the edge of that loop on your clasp. Now this strand is not cut so I still have it attached to the spool because we will cut it later. This tool is a really great, great tool. It not only is a plier but it has a little divot in the center and what that does to a one by one crimp bead is when you crimp it, it turns that crimp bead into a real bead, a round bead and it catches it so its sturdy. So what we are going to do is we are going to stick it right on there and crimp it and I will show you that in just a moment.

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