Hi this Megan with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you How to Use the
BeadSmith Twist 'n' Curl Wire Coiling Tool
It's a wire coiling tool
and the little kits comes
with
these pieces here
there's a handle
and then there's six different mandrels that you can use and it's going to
allow you to really quickly and easily coil
craft wire
and you can use
the coils, you can snip them to make jump ring. So here you can see I made
square jump rings
using a square mandrel
triangle jump rings using the triangle mandrel
You can use these
coils for
pretty much
anything you want
You can make round coils and snip those for more traditional jump rings
You can even
play around with combining your coils
You can do fun wire beads
so
you take the handle
and you insert
the mandrel that you want
just screw it on. It's really easy. Take some craft wire
make sure when you're practicing that you're using
a less expensive wire. You don't want to try to practice on a
nice sterling silver and end up having to throw it away
just
get a foot or two of wire out of the spool
there's two little holes
on either side
of the handle
so go ahead and put the tip of the wire through one of the holes
bend it down
it's gonna hold it in place
use your thumb and your forefinger on your left hand
to guide
the wire
right up along the handle
and just
use you thumb
to hold it in place right up against there and use your right hand
just spin
and
you can coil
as much wire as you need
Once you get it going down there you can
use your finger
and spin the handle. It can go really quick
Once you have as much as you need
Trim that off
use nylon pliers to make sure that the end is bent down all the way
trim off the top
make sure that the top end is bent down all the way
this part will fall out or you can pull it out
pull that off
very simple and it's very quick
and to make jump rings out of that all you do is snip
you can see
all the links separate
or you can use it to make any kind of
wire components where you would want that coiled
and I'll show you real quick
how did you this technique to make a wire bead
it's also really easy to remove the mandrel. All you have to do
is unscrew it
so go ahead and take
the second wire, in this case it was the purple wire
fist you're going to start with
a coil and I used the smallest metal
round mandrel for this coil
the length of the coil ids going to determine the length of the bead
and start with another piece of
wire
and put it right through the coil
and then you're gonna start
by putting that wire through
the handle and let that coil move down a
little bit
just like you would normally
start twisting
and you're going to
twist
a few times around this is going to be the end
coils
the smaller ones so you can make that as long as you want I'm going to make this bead a
little bit smaller than that one
put your coil up
and keep it nice and tight
and start
spinning
with that
coil twisting around
it will fan out
and give a neat spiral look
and continue to coil
it around
and when you get the end of your
second coil
keep going around
and you're gonna
do
the main wire
and just like you did at the beginning at the end here
so do it about as long as it was at the beginning
and go ahead and
snip that off
and smooth the end down
snip off the beginning part
smooth the end down
and now you have a neat
wire wrapped
bead. So you can use this tool to make
all kinds of different components. It's really up to your imagination what you want to use it for
but it is
a really fast and easy way
to get
that coil shape and you can see
it comes with a variety of different shapes and sizes
It kind of lets you create whatever you wanna make.