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Hi this is Kat with beadaholique.com and
I wanna teach you about the Artistic Wire's Conetastic tool
now when you receive the tool it'll come like this and what you'll do
is just unscrew the bottom and inside
are all different mandrel sets as well as your tool
close that back up and this tool comes with an 11 millimeter,
an 8 millimeter and a 5 millimeter
now let's use the largest
one just to show you the easiest way of how it works. I'm gonna put it in the
top
It'll be loose so take
your wrench and just tighten and you'll feel it tighten
just make sure it's secure enough for you. Now before I show you exactly how to
do this I want to show you a few little examples
this one
is using a this gauge wire
on this mandrel and you'll see kinda how I did it there
I just wrapped it around. This one you can use like maybe like a bead cap if you
only wanna do half
and these ones came from the smaller ones, so this was just kind of a funky
one that I did. I went with the five millimeters as you see there
and on these you can see that you can do it a little bit tighter
a little bit looser and a little bit longer
it just depends on where you'd like to cut your wire, what kind of
gauge your using and what you need for your specific project. So let me show you
how it works
so here I have a piece of 22 gauge artistic wire
I'll show you basically how the conetastic works
you can see these little holes right here and all you do
is thread your wire through and bend a little piece of it back
make sure you're using a long enough piece of wire
and I recommend winding it
opposite to where you want your wire to go. So if you wrap it this way it could slip out
a little bit easier
so wrap it this way and the cone you'll notice
has little grooves so you can start to feel your wire kinda hitting those notches
now this is kinda tough
you just gotta keep the tension good
and you've to keep your finger on it especially for these first few wraps
here
and just keep it tight
just keep wrapping it takes a minute
this is a great tool to use to get any kind of coil that you want
whether it's a really tight one or
something just to finish off. Like I said like a bead cap you can do that
and really any wire is going to work. It's just gonna be
what you really wanna work with. I do recommend the artistic wire
it's really easy to use with your finger and that way you don't need an
extra tool
to help you wrap it in there. So there
I just kinda wrapped it about halfway. You can see it's quite a bit of wire
take some wire cutters
and snip off this side. Be careful you don't want to have any
wire flying. Take it off and you have
a little bead cap or however you kind of want to use that
again like I said you can use the different size
mandrels to create tightly coiled ones,
ones with a little bit more spring to it. Definitely be careful
when you choose your wire to make sure if it's going to be low bearing
you don't want to use a really thin wire because it will just stretch it out
I'll actually show you on the blue one, it'll just
stretch it out and then
it doesn't go back nice and coiled
so you wanna be careful that if you're going to use a wire like this that you
can't have something too heavy
hanging off of it because then it won't stay and its nice little coil
you're gonna want to use something like this which is
18 gauge wire and you can see how much stiffer it is, like I try to pull it
and it's much stronger. You just wanna be careful
If you wanna switch out your mandrel, you just unscrew it
take it out and when you're all finished put them right back in the bottom
there
So that is it. That is the Artistic Wire Conetastic Mandrel
tool set.
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