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Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com
and today I'm going to show you how to use BeadSmith's new
easy rivet tool and I've actually made a couple of examples
already of what you can do with it and what it is it's a really easy and quick
way of riveting
objects together. So here's a little pendant made. I'm not sure it's going
to be an earring yet or if I'll put it on a chain, it becomes a necklace
but I've used the islet ones and that's what this what these look like right
here
and they come in three different sizes, they come in 1/16 of an inch
three thirty-seconds and 1/8 of an inch
you can see it has
a hollow center, a hollow core
and then it has a islet on the other side. So those are what I used to create
this piece
and then another option
you can take something that is a hollow rivet
like right here. So it's a hollow rivet on the inside of the core
they've got a flathead which is really good for different uses
and I've used that one right here. So comes in three different metal finishes
for the ones with the Flathead the islets are currently just
in the brass but for the ones that are Flathead you have
aluminum which is this nice steel color, you've got brass,
you've got copper and you've got them in the 1/16 of an inch
which is pretty much purely decorative. You're not to going to be able to sandwich
much together with that
so you might want to use that if your gonna do something like this application
here
where you're gonna go ahead and just add a little decorative element and put a jump
ring through it to
act as a bail. Then you've got the three thirty-seconds
which is gonna be better if you're sandwiching two items together
and that's this length right here which I used
to connect two items and then you have the 1/8 inch
which is going to be more for three items which is what I did here
so it's all going to depend upon the thickness of your
items you're sandwiching together. So those are general estimates of
what you're going to be able to
do but just keep in mind to take note of how long your rivet is
and how many items you're going to be sandwiching together. So now
after much talk about rivets let's look at the tool itself
so it's got two T-bar sections to it that work as handles
the first one is gonna be a hole punch. I'll show you how to use that in
just a second
but this is gonna give you the exact size hole punch
you need for the rivets both the islet ones and the flathead
and the other side is actually the riveting tool itself
and it has a flat head here but it also comes
with a domed head as well if you're doing a ring
or piece like a filigree perhaps it has a dome-shaped to it
and to switch out the head it comes with this little handy screwdriver
and you can switch it out that way. I want to actual put together a project so you can see
how this works. I'm gonna make another color variation of my pendant
I'm going to first take, now these are all Vintaj
stamping blanks. This is the Artisan thin copper one and these were just
a Vintaj natural brass and I used
patinas on them. I'm gonna put that where I want it
on my stamping blank and I just take a pen and just make a mark
where the hole is. So now you take this
put it into
the hole punch side
line it up just over where my mark was. If you have a fine tip Sharpie
pen you might want to use that, it may be a little easier to see
and then I'm just going to twist clockwise
the handle and you can feel the moment it goes through, when it actually punches
and then to release it just
unscrew the handle and sometimes I find that it actually doesn't go up to the top
and it just releases and now we have a
nice size hole, the perfect size for
our rivets and I'm going to use the 1/8th rivet because I am
securing multiple pieces. Now I find it's a little easier to pick up these guys with
a pair of tweezers
now this is just the right size. I wouldn't want that hole to be
any bigger because it would fall through. That's going to secure that
so I'm going to layer the pieces on top of each other and then I'm actually going to
use the tweezers, they do come in handy, holding that in place I'm gonna find the
hole
in my stamping blank and put that through it
they're all sandwiched together with it coming out the back
so where we use the hole punch when it was in this position
we're going to use the riveting tool with it upside down. You can see there's a little
tiny little peg
in the middle of the riveting tool and we're gonna wanna secure
the hollow core on top of that little peg
unscrew it enough
with my
object in the upright position. Put it
on top of the little peg. This is probably gonna be hard to see because I can't twist it
too much for the video
take my thumb now, sitting on that little peg
I'm twisting
the T-bar handle to move
the tool forward
and it's caught now. I can show you a little bit so it's actually sandwiched in
the three pieces between the two sides of the tool
and it's caught. I'm going to twist. You don't wanna
over tighten this because you don't ever want to crack your rivet
just do it so it feels secure and tight and then unscrew it
and that's what we have. Now on the backside
we have this great little rivet and on the front side
we have our flowers which are secure and sandwiched together
and they're not going to go anywhere. One quick tip with this tool is it does take
a little bit time to get used to how it works
so I suggest starting with some practice material, some inexpensive stamping
blanks, not going right into the
project that you're going to spend a lot of time on but practicing a little bit first
getting the hang of it
and then going forward. So that is how you use
the new BeadSmith easy rivet tool.
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