Connecting Recycled Jewelry Together

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Hi I'm Jason. Today I'm shooting on behalf of ExpertVillage.com making a necklace and beads out of recyclable materials. We're now finally to the very last steps. We've got our clasp up here that we got off the back of a safety pin. We didn't go get a clasp from any sort of store, those things they have. A clasp that you can remove the necklace, you can take the necklace on and off and there will be a gap in the middle of the clasp. We don't have that. So, we're going to take a simple tool, a putty knife, this is a wood carving knife. Just going to stick it in between, right in between the pieces of metal. It doesn't need to go all the way through. If you don't feel safe doing it in you hands put it down on the table. But just set it in there and pry, you don't even need to really pry, but just so that it goes in through and somewhat separates those pieces of metal. Now we've got a gap in the metal. We can take the hoop that we're going to create here, put it there and we should be able to twist it in and out. It's not as handy or as easy as something that you buy in the store but you also just made something out of something that didn't exist before. It's a little bit of a pain but it definitely a lot cooler. Once you've got your gap we're going to just take the end, make another simple knot but don't pull it through, keep the ends here, make another knot in the end. This is a little but hard but just get it to go through. We've got it to go through, you see the end of the wires through this second hole. Pull those together and I'm going to just bite it. That's just a slipknot. Now we've got a knot. We've got the clasp, we have the small gap and we've got the slipknot that's now tight on the other end and it's got the hoop. The way you put it on and take it off is take the hoop on one end of the clasp and simply pull it down onto the clasp. Now you're finished product is from wire, a safety pin, a charm and some cable you have a necklace.

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