Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you how to create a bail
for a piece of molded resin
I've gotten a lot of request for this and I thought it would be easiest way
to show you how to do this using eye pins. This is what a lot of people have
so what you're going to first to do
look at your mold. I have two small hearts. I put them on a piece of black
paper so you can see them a little bit better
figure out where I want that to stick out
think I want it to stick out about there. So what I'm going to do is
take my round nose pliers
and bend
at a ninety degree angle
and I'm going to make a loop
this is what we have so far
I'm going to curve it so that it's centered
take this part
keep making a loop
just want a little coil essentially
you can be neater with this if the piece is actually going to show through
if you're using a transparent resin you want it to be a little bit neater
with your loop, if using an opaque it's not gonna show so it doesn't matter
so if you can see
this is not flat. It has dimension to it because you want something to
stick into the resin itself
so what I'm going to do is I'm going to
put this
like so
and now what I need to do
is take a piece of tape
I already coated my mold with mold release spray
and then I've wipe off the area here
of the mold release spray where I'm going to put my tape
so just tape that down
make sure though that
the tape is not going into the mold itself
just one on the edge
now what we're going to do is I have my resin
and I filled it
with a little bit glitter. I just thought it would be funny if I'm doing this anyways.
why not have a little green glitter
and drip it
into my mold
over the bail I've created
as long as part of that bail gets covered in resin. It's embedded
it's gonna hold for you
I'm going to let this cure for three full days
and I'll pop it out and show you what we've got
we've been patient and we've waited three days for our resin to cure
take off the tape
pop my hearts out of the mold and to do that you just
depress on the back
pop it out
and then as you can see
we now have our bail that is embedded and it's not going anywhere
you will notice though that sometimes with molds a little bit of excess
resin
gets all along the edges, it overflows just a little and to remove that. You can take a diamond
and file
and file it down
now with this the hole is still intact
you might want to widen it a little bit if they is resin in there
if you're going to do a lot of sanding of the resin, make sure you wear a mask, if you're just
doing a little like that it should be okay, if you really going to go at it
file this all down. Do make sure you wear a mask so you're not breathing anything
in
you can see that side
when you've got the resin removed just do the same on the other side
now if the resin which creeped up along the eye pin is really thin you can
actually just
pick it off with your fingers
to remove it
and then as you can see we can see the actual spiral through the mold, if
you're using clear resin or we just added a little green glitter
if you're resin is opaque you won't see that at all. You won't have to worry about what
that looks like but that does give extra strength and durability
and there you have a nice clean bail
put it against black you can see it a little bit better
so that is all there is to embedding a bail which we used an eye pin for
into resin that's been put into a mold