Jewelry supplies include many kinds of materials for jewelry making. If you are a jewelry making fan, you should not be unfamiliar with crimp beads that are usually utilized in bracelet beading. This tutorial supplements some information about how to crimp beads. Later we will show them for you.

Basic jewelry supplies and tools for how to crimp beads, here take the bicone bracelet making for example: bicone beads of your choices, crimp beads, beading wire, clasps, needle nose plier and crimping plier.

How to crimp beads step 1: position the crimp beads

Before installing one part of your clasp to wire, slide crimp bead first; and then give the wire a loop and back through crimp bead.

Leave a tail long enough for the end of wire, so that you have sufficient space to modify the positions of crimp beads and clasp.

How to crimp beads step 2: close the crimp beads in two ways

Way 1: applying needle nose plier

Hold the crimp bead with needle nose plier, and give a proper pressure onto the bead; only if the crimp bead is sure to be firmly secured onto wire, the step is okay.

Way 2: applying crimping plier

First, give a firm grasp to crimp bead with the back notch of the plier, which helps form a dent in bead;

Second, place the dent upright, and give a tight hold with forward notch of the plier, then the bead is tightly secured.

How to crimp beads step 3: finish the bracelet making

Bead other jewelry supplies onto wire, slide crimp bead and other part of clasp, repeat the previous steps, and complete the crimping work.

Here this tutorial about how to crimp beads is done and the sample bracelet is well made out. Please notice that when positioning the crimp beads, be sure they are closest to clasp. If there existed unusual space in between, the clasp would freely moveable on wire.