Hi there.
Sandy here.
Welcome to another Friday Findings video at KeepsakeCrafts.net.
Today I'm going to talk to you about a bracelet finding.
If you're looking for something a little bit more discrete and secure for a multi-strand
bracelet, you might like tube clasps.
So here I have an assortment of tube clasps and it's just what it sounds like.
It's a tube and then there's another piece, a cylinder, that's slightly smaller that fits
inside it.
Now these ones, you can see how it snapped together, happen to be magnetic, which is
nice.
And these are all from ArtBeads.com.
This one isn't magnetic.
It's a friction fit.
When you get to the end there's a little bit of a snap, but it pulls apart easily.
Tube clasps are nice when you want to make a multi-strand bracelet and you want to keep
all of your strands spread out evenly throughout the bracelet instead of having them all gathered
together at a clasp because when you put this one together you can see they stay spread
out on the clasp much like a cuff bracelet.
A few things to keep in mind when you're using tube clasps, the first thing is if you're
going to make a many stranded bracelet, make sure that you keep it straight which piece
goes which way so that you don't twist your pieces, unless that's the look you're going
for.
And if that's the look you're going for you'll want to be certain that you allow some extra
length because that twist and that extra thickness will take up some space.
Also the longer your tube, the more length you're going to need in your bracelet for
two reasons.
First of all, if you wear a bracelet down here, like a single strand bracelet would
fall, you're going to need less of a diameter around the wrist than if it goes up here.
You can see there's a bit more of a gap there.
So if you're going to make a bracelet with lots of strands that's going to be very wide,
some of it is going to be up here where your arm is thicker so you need to make sure that
you make your bracelet long enough to accommodate that.
Also the longer your clasp is, the more space you need when you're going to put it on.
Let's see if I can show you here.
It's kind of tricky, but this needs to be way up here for me to clasp it, which means
I need extra length.
This can be a little bit tricky to clasp on your arm.
It can be done, but this is one of those things that's kind of helpful to have somebody clasp
it for you, but once it's on, it's quite secure.
Because unlike a toggle clasp, there isn't much by way of movement that's gonna pull
it off except something very deliberately grabbing both ends and pulling it apart.
As you can see from my assortment here, tube clasps come in all different finishes and
sizes and numbers of loops.
These two are both 30mm long and they both have five loops.
This one is silver plated and this one is antique copper plated.
This one is antique brass plated with three loops and it's 20mm long.
And then this one is a gun metal finish and it's, I didn't measure it.
It's about 40mm long and it has seven loops.
But notice you don't have to just have as many strands as there are loops.
This one's seven loops, but on the end ones, I have not only a strand of beads, I have
a length of chain.
And also if you want, maybe you want to use some wider beads.
You could skip loops.
So on this one you could double up and have six strands or five or whatever you want of
smaller beads.
On this one, you could skip loops and like I said, it's kind of a nice discrete clasp
that keeps all of your strands spread out nicely while you're wearing it.
So if you're interested in some of the supplies, there's a link in the upper right and in the
description box to go to my blog post.
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