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Hi. This is Megan with Beadaholique.com. I'm going to show you how to use
Beadalon Quick Links and Quick Link connectors.
The quick links come in variety of sizes. They come in an variety of
metal finishes
and different shapes.
There's
a lot of different
options for round basic quick links. There's also
hearts, there's diamond cut quick links
and
the plain quick links, there are flowers and squares and diamonds.
The options are
pretty extensive.
Then there's also
these little quick link connectors.
They come in a
couple of different finishes
and several different sizes.
What these items allow you to do is
link together different
things
that's why they're called quick links.
You can use them to build a chain. You can use them
to go with jewelry itself or you can use them to just link things together.
They do
on the package have a little example of
what you can do with them
there.
I'm just going to show you
briefly
how you use the little connectors to link them together.
So there's a couple of different options
when you're
linking your quick links.
You can link one link to one link.
If you're just going to have it go around once
I want to use the smaller
connector unless you want the bigger one just for
aesthetic purposes but
the small one
is plenty big enough to just link them together.
You just going to put one side
into the connector
and use a pair of chain nose pliers
to close
that side of the connector
and then you're going to put the other side
into the other side of the connector
and use your pliers to push that down.
You can see
the possibilities are endless with what you can do with that.
You can also connect
two links together to kind of stack the links
to use that for a design
so you want to use a bigger connector. This is the large one
if you're going to have it
enclosed more than one link.
And again
you just put them in together
and use the pliers.
Tighten that down
and then you could go in
connect that
to another link or to a clasp or a jump ring or a finding.
Make little design elements
very quickly like that.
You can also
attach
quick links within each other.
It can be interesting to
use the tension of the shape with this connector to
see which you can make.
So if you use a small one because you're only going to have
one link through each half.
You could
put the smaller ring
inside the bigger ring.
If you play around with the different sizes and shapes you can
find ones that fit exactly
or
you can find ones
where it'll kind of give you an angled look
like this
20 millimeter round inside the 25 millimeter round.
It doesn't quite go right in the middle but it
kind of gives a fun mod look if you
have it over to one side. You can
right use a larger link
to go right
over both of those sides and hold that in place.
So that's kind of fun.
You can play around and come up with all kinds of uses for these and that's how
you put them together.
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