Keeping Bracelet Beads Organized

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This is John Mendez with Expert Village and we are completing our box bracelet but before we do I would like to show you the trays that I use to stay organized. And these are just basic aluminum triangle trays, mine have my name on them. But I like to keep the amount of all of my supplies in these. It's easier to get at. I count all my pieces out and put them in trays like this and this way I can find them and get them to the assembly of what I am doing really easily. You can stack them if you are done with one particular supply, you can stack it up and it just keeps it nice and organized. The solder that I have used when I soldered this in the beginning is tic solder and it comes in spools or just little like three or four inch strips. This one is a strip and you don't want to get this mixed up with regular sterling wire or any other kind of beading wire because its really really soft and its, it will break easy. But what I like to do with this is I flatten out one side because you don't need so much and those little pieces I will cut into a tray and just cut the little pieces that you will use for your box bracelet at the one end of your head pin. I usually cut out probably about twenty percent more than what I need because each solder does not come out perfect and it's a really labor intensive process to do all that soldering and sometimes you mess up and you have to start over so I like to have a lot of those precut so that when you are ready to solder you can just put them on there with your flux. And the flux is very very simple, this is our old flux, but flux doesn't really go old it just loses a little bit of its oil so it's not as slippery. I kind of like it when it's a little bit thick like this. It's easier to manage but you can get this at any hardware store and its only about two dollars sometimes ninety nine cents. And this just helps to make the solder flow a lot easier onto the metal and secure them together. And that is how you stay organized with this particular project. The tools that you will need are cutters for your wire and pliers for holding and making your little crimp bead crimps.

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