hello I'm Steph and today I'm going to demonstrate how to use a Coiling Gizmo
and you can get a very basic Coiling Gizmo which has a small bracket and the
basic wires and that you then slot in to use to coil the wire and there is now
a deluxe version which comes the very handy clamp to camp
your device to the table which means it's a little bit more hands-free and a
lot lot easier to work with so I'm going to use some 0.6mm coloured wire
today and going for emerald green and I'm going to coil this wire up using the
one of the small bars on the Gizmo and these just slot into small holes
either side of the end bracket and then you wind it up like so and so just to
get started you attach the wire to this and top part of the barrel so to wrap
that round twice their place just to stop it from moving around as you work
with the wire and then with this piece of wire going straight down I'm going to
hold on to that with my left hand so that's nice and straight and then I'm
going to do the winding with my predominant right hand and basically you
just slowly and steadily wind the wire around the barrel creating your
coil the temptation is to go really really fast but that's when you end up
getting gaps in your coils and then you lose grip of the wire, it's best to just
go slow and steady i'm using approximately a 75cm length of
wire which feels like a lot when you're coiling it up but once you then work
with your coil obviously it's going to get a lot shorter and the nice thing about
these Coiling Gizmos as well as that they're very easy to use whether your
left or right-handed just by slotting the barrel in from the other side you
can use it left-handedly. So getting close to the end of my wire now
you're going to get to a point where you can't really hold it at that point you
can stop so here we just need to snip off the wire here just can use my flush
cutters to release the wire in here, a little chop there, and then this will
slide off the barrel and out of the device so that's my coil I'm just going
to neaten this up now and using flush cutters I'm just going to trim off the
final coil on each side just like so and now our coil can now be used for a huge
number of things and but what works really nicely is creating actual beads
from the coils so these are a few examples we've made before and so to do
that you're going to use the coiling gizmo again but with a larger barrel
into the device so I'll move those out the way, so you can see here they come
in lots of different sizes and there's different holes at the side so this one
will go into a slightly larger hole to accommodate the barrel and do a very
similar thing with what we did before with the wire I'm going to use a thicker
and silver-plated wire to make the end so like this example here you can see
the wire coming out of the ends there so I'm working a shorter length of wire
about half a metre/ 50cm. I'm going to do exactly the same again and
secure my thicker 0.8mm silver plated wire to the barrel and then as
well as holding this I'm going to slide my coiled piece of 0.6mm wire onto
this wire. So you can see that there and to begin with I'm just going to coil the
silver-plated wire so just a few rounds it's always best to do a few more coils
than you think you need - it's a lot easier to snip off a few at the end rather than
wish you'd done a few more so now that I've got a few of the silver
plated coils, going to slide up my coloured wire and then hold that in place
and then as I coil it will twist around the barrel and create a lovely effect
and again when i get to the other side i'm just going to do a few coils of the
silver-plated wire to match the beginning and then we can chop that off
as we did before and slide it off the Gizmo again we want to just neaten up
the ends with the flush cutters and I can see here I've got one too many coils
on this side so I'm just going to snip an extra one off there there we go and
now we have another bead and these look really effective and threaded on to
thick cord and or even just used as they are