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Hi I'm Mackie Mullane, I'm a designer and educator
for Vintaj and I'm here today with Beadaholique.com to show you the Robed
Maze Necklace using our creative bail
Some of my supplies I have here are two chain nose pliers for opening and
closing jump rings
I also have two large jump rings, one medium-sized
and four small jump rings
For the main part of this we're going to be creating
these bails
so what I have here is this five tiered
connector and to start I'm actually going to just
bend with my hands each side
of that centerpiece. So once you're at about a 90 degree angle
I go ahead and turn the last sides
out
push those together and I'm kinda go in and just work with your pliers
and tighten
and you have your bail
so then I'm going to go in and going to connect these two triangular pieces
together
so we have a front and a back. Take one of my small jump rings
and open and close one
towards me and one away. Slide those on
one and the next
and then I'm going to attach it through those two
holes on the bail
close it up
and you have your pendant. You can go through with a ribbon or chain
I like ribbon for this one because the bail is nice and big and it
has lots of space for a big necklace space
so string that through
you have your necklace. So here
I have shown that we've done some patina on this one
so you can see how this is double sided one has patina and one has none so you
could wear it either way
So for the second necklace using the creative bail
I'm going to show you a second technique and we're going to use this patina
so this is just a single color what we're going to do here
make sure you shake up your bottle and when I'm working with the patina
I like to just put it off to the side of my piece and here I've laid down some wax
paper
so you'll need wax paper, a dry brush and a little cup of water
pour your patina off to the side
and you wanna make sure that your brushes are nice and dry because the patinas are
water-soluble
and if you mix them with the water
it will start to bubble so you want to make sure that that's nice and go
ahead and paint it right over the top of the whole piece
okay so while you're patina is still tacky to the touch
take the dark grey side of the reliefing block. That's the heaviest grit
you have the dark grey, the white side, that's the lighter grit
and then this light grey side is the polishing side
so going with the dark grey side
and just reliefing those raised area
you can go in with the grey
side and polish it up and there's you're patina piece
okay so then I'm going to go ahead and
just assemble this necklace all together. So I have the two large rings
a medium-size and a small size
and for this one I'm going to attach the small size through the two holes
on the bail that we created earlier. Use your two chain nose pliers
attach a jump ring and this one is actually featuring the bail
used upside down as opposed to this necklace
earlier
so go ahead and slide your large jump ring
through, close it up
then we're going to use another one and kind of create a layered effect
put that through
close
and then take a medium-sized, open that up
put it through the top of your leaf
and through the two large size jump rings
close
and then here you have your pendant
with your bail. Then you can go ahead and
attach a chain. Slip it right through the top like that
and attach a clasp
and then your done.
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