Hello.
Sandy here.
Welcome to another Friday Findings video at my YouTube channel and my blog.
Often when we make jewelry we use chain or bead stringing wire to put it together, but
sometimes it's nice to use something else like a kind of fiber and you may have wondered
how to finish jewelry made with those so today I'm going to show you how to use cord ends.
So here I have an assortment of cord ends and they are made for finishing off jewelry
that's made with something other than your usual bead stringing wire and crimps or chain.
These are great for if you're using leather cord and you can see here's an example of
a necklace with the ends finished so there's a nice jump ring and clasp on the ends of
a leather necklace or it could be a bracelet.
You could also use silk fibers.
These are wonderful for stringing on large beads and of course you could always make
a knot at the back, but it's really so much nicer to finish them with a cord end.
There are all kinds of things.
There's wide leather, there's narrow leather, colored leather.
There's even cotton string.
There's round leather cord and you could find cord ends to finish off any of those fibers
that you want.
As you can see here they are all basically the same shape.
They have a 'U' shaped channel and often they have the little tooth right at the end of
it and it helps it grip onto your fiber and then there's a loop at the other end for adding
a jump ring or a clasp.
So they're all pretty much the same shape.
They don't all have the tooth.
It depends on what they are.
These ones are springs.
If you have a coiling tool you could actually make these yourself and you can see they come
in different sizes.
So for example these little ones might be good for cotton cord, which is pretty small,
but you'd need one of these bigger ones for this leather cord.
I would strongly recommend when you use these once you're ready to finalize your jewelry
design to add a drop of strong glue so that you know your piece isn't going to come out.
Like I showed you, some have the assurance of that little tooth, but not all of them
do.
So here's a little bit of leather cord and let's say I wanted to put it in here.
You can just set it in there and then you can use chain nose or flat nose pliers and
you just squeeze one side down.
Flat nose actually work great for this and then you can flatten down the other side.
These coil type ones are great for a round fiber.
You can just pop that in there.
A little drop of glue wouldn't go amiss.
Start at the end furthest from the loop and just grab a coil or two and give them a squeeze.
Just kind of work your way up until your cord is nice and secure in there and then you can
trim the excess.
Like I said, these come in different sizes for different types of fibers.
These little ones might be perfect for the silk fibers or the cotton smaller ones.
Something bigger for something beefier.
They come in all different colors and finishes to match your jewelry.
So I hope you found that helpful and now you can consider stringing your jewelry on other
materials.
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