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0:00:07.319,0:00:11.379 Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com
and today I want to introduce you to
0:00:11.379,0:00:15.449 bail making pliers by Wubbers and I'm
actually going to use them to make a little bail
0:00:15.449,0:00:17.220 using a finding.
0:00:17.220,0:00:19.740 They come in three different sizes.
We have small
0:00:19.740,0:00:21.260 medium and large.
0:00:21.260,0:00:23.939 They're actually two size option
with the bails.
You'll notice that
0:00:23.939,0:00:28.429 each prong is a
continuous diameter unlike round nose plier
0:00:28.429,0:00:31.329 where it's tapered at the end wider at the
base.
0:00:31.329,0:00:35.530 These are gonna be the same thickness
all the way through so you can choose
0:00:35.530,0:00:38.570 if you get the large one here you're
gonna get a really extra-large size
0:00:38.570,0:00:43.230 bail making tool and also a slightly
smaller one but still a large one
0:00:43.230,0:00:46.590 and that gives you actually six
different size options between the three
0:00:46.590,0:00:48.080 pliers.
0:00:48.080,0:00:52.460 So the way you're going to want to use these
is your going take a pendent so you've got a
0:00:52.460,0:00:56.290 piece here where you're going to need to make
a bail for.
0:00:56.290,0:00:58.260 You see you got that center hole
0:00:58.260,0:01:02.810 and it's best to line up your bail
making pliers with
0:01:02.810,0:01:06.720 the width of your pendant to see how big
of the bail you're going to need.
0:01:06.720,0:01:11.640 So I can take the small and I'm going to line
that up.
This is going to be a little bit too small.
0:01:11.640,0:01:15.100 You go to both sides because they do you come
two sizes.
0:01:15.100,0:01:17.299 I'm going to do this one here.
0:01:17.299,0:01:20.430 That's actually looking pretty good if you
can see that that's about the same
0:01:20.430,0:01:21.299 width
0:01:21.299,0:01:23.560 as the actual pendant itself.
0:01:23.560,0:01:27.510 This one here is going to be a little bit
large.
It probably would work and I could tamper it
in
0:01:27.510,0:01:29.960 but I think that's going to just about
perfect.
0:01:29.960,0:01:31.350 So what you're going do
0:01:31.350,0:01:35.410 is your going to take a finding.
I got this little connector.
It's a silver
0:01:35.410,0:01:38.640 silver plated filigree connector.
0:01:38.640,0:01:41.550 It's got two holes which is real
important because those holes are
0:01:41.550,0:01:42.760 going line up
0:01:42.760,0:01:45.010 with the hole and the pendant
0:01:45.010,0:01:46.570 and I'm gonna take bail
0:01:46.570,0:01:48.190 making pliers
0:01:48.190,0:01:50.470 put my filigree
0:01:50.470,0:01:52.030 in the center.
0:01:52.030,0:01:54.549 Make sure that it's a very evenly centered
0:01:54.549,0:01:58.140 because when you bend it over you want these
holes to match up.
0:01:58.140,0:02:00.820 I'm just gonna hold it.
Gripping it.
0:02:00.820,0:02:03.890 I'm gonna take my fingers
0:02:03.890,0:02:05.530 pull it down
0:02:05.530,0:02:09.159 evenly.
0:02:09.159,0:02:12.780 There you can see my holes are now lined up
to take it off and
0:02:12.780,0:02:15.680 I've got a perfect little bail.
0:02:15.680,0:02:18.669 So now to connect it onto my
pendant
0:02:18.669,0:02:20.489 I have a head pin
0:02:20.489,0:02:22.360 two inches twenty two gauge.
0:02:22.360,0:02:25.889 The most important thing to consider is that
the head itself
0:02:25.889,0:02:27.849 is going to
0:02:27.849,0:02:31.789 stop and be large enough that won't go
through the hole in your filigree piece.
0:02:31.789,0:02:34.290 So keep that in mind when you're
looking at
0:02:34.290,0:02:36.769 what head pin you're going to use to do this.
0:02:36.769,0:02:40.109 There's several different ways of
connecting these and this one though is
0:02:40.109,0:02:43.549 what I feel is easiest.
So go ahead put your bail
0:02:43.549,0:02:45.809 onto your pendant.
0:02:45.809,0:02:47.939 Take your head pin
0:02:47.939,0:02:50.479 put it through the hole
0:02:50.479,0:02:52.680 and then make sure
0:02:52.680,0:02:54.809 when it comes out the other side
0:02:54.809,0:02:57.859 that goes all the way through the hole on
the other side
0:02:57.859,0:03:00.569 pull it through.
0:03:00.569,0:03:03.140 Now I'm using a twenty-two gauge head pin
0:03:03.140,0:03:05.229 because I want to be able to wrap this
0:03:05.229,0:03:06.359 around
0:03:06.359,0:03:08.379 the inside of my bail.
0:03:08.379,0:03:11.099 So I'm going to bend
0:03:11.099,0:03:13.180 tail of my head pin over
0:03:13.180,0:03:14.469 I'm going to tread it
0:03:14.469,0:03:16.829 through the bail
0:03:16.829,0:03:20.279 and I'm actually going to take a pair of pliers
0:03:20.279,0:03:22.529 so that I can get a grip on it
0:03:22.529,0:03:23.999 and pull it.
0:03:23.999,0:03:27.079 See I've looped it around now.
0:03:27.079,0:03:30.049 I pull it again
0:03:30.049,0:03:33.949 over the front
0:03:33.949,0:03:40.779 push it through
0:03:40.779,0:03:47.779 grab that tail again.
Pull
0:03:47.949,0:03:51.239 and that is anchored on there.
It's actually flexible which is really nice.
It's allowed
0:03:51.239,0:03:52.509 to move.
0:03:52.509,0:03:56.599 Just going to take a pair of flush cutters
at this point
0:03:56.599,0:03:57.709 snip off
0:03:57.709,0:03:59.029 the tail
0:03:59.029,0:04:01.089 and I have secured bail.
0:04:01.089,0:04:03.899 So that was a really easy and that's one
way of doing it.
0:04:03.899,0:04:07.809 I have another example over here where we've
taken a Swarovski heart pendant and a
0:04:07.809,0:04:13.229 larger filigree.
We did the same process using at one of the larger size
0:04:13.229,0:04:16.970 bail making pliers.
You can see it fits into it
0:04:16.970,0:04:20.349 just like that.
We used the large size.
0:04:20.349,0:04:22.919 And then what we did
0:04:22.919,0:04:25.289 we took a head pin
0:04:25.289,0:04:29.250 we put it all the through and we added a
decorative bead cap on
0:04:29.250,0:04:30.419 there.
0:04:30.419,0:04:33.889 We went through to the other side.
We wrapped it around and then we glued on
0:04:33.889,0:04:38.389 another bead cap and we glued a little
Swarovski flat back rhinestones as well
0:04:38.389,0:04:39.849 for a decorative touch.
0:04:39.849,0:04:43.610 And then on this pendant which we just made
what I would do,
0:04:43.610,0:04:46.139 I would just go ahead
0:04:46.139,0:04:47.780 string the necklace
0:04:47.780,0:04:51.710 through the bail liked so but if you think
didn't want to do that you could do what we
0:04:51.710,0:04:53.770 did here
0:04:53.770,0:04:56.520 where we just attached some jump rings
0:04:56.520,0:05:00.240 so that we could put the necklace through
right there.
So here are a couple ways to
0:05:00.240,0:05:03.120 make bails using bail making pliers.
0:05:03.120,0:05:06.509 Another use I want to show you with bail making
pliers is if you'd like to work
0:05:06.509,0:05:10.270 with wire a lot, I have a spool here of
twenty gauge wire
0:05:10.270,0:05:12.029 and you want perfect
0:05:12.029,0:05:12.729 loops
0:05:12.729,0:05:15.529 everytime
0:05:15.529,0:05:18.959 bail making pliers are great for that.
You see that I was going to be able to make a loop
0:05:18.959,0:05:21.590 and I'm going to be able to duplicate that
loop
0:05:21.590,0:05:24.819 over and over again.
0:05:24.819,0:05:29.449 It's going to be the same diameter each time
as oppose to if you were doing this with round
nose pliers
0:05:29.449,0:05:32.449 you'd have to remember where along the
prong of the plier
0:05:32.449,0:05:36.209 you made the loops that you have even ones
each time.
This way is always gonna be
0:05:36.209,0:05:38.669 perfect each
0:05:38.669,0:05:41.169 every time.
0:05:41.169,0:05:45.999 So that was a quick introduction to bail
making pliers.
They're a great tool to have.
0:05:45.999,0:05:49.879 I hope you enjoyed this introduction
to Wubbers bail making pliers and
0:05:49.879,0:05:51.919 that you'll find this useful in your jewelry
design.
0:05:52.879,0:05:56.919 Go to Beadaholique.com for all of your beading
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