Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com and
today I want to show you how to make your own
custom bail for
domino tiles. You can also use these for
scrabble tiles or
bottle caps as well.
So these work great for a lot of different
mixed media pieces which don't already
have a hole drilled into them.
So the items that your going to need
is a ruler,
a steel bench block. I have it on a
rubber pad here to absorb some of the
impact.
I've got some E6000. We're going to use
this glue attach our bail
to our domino tile. I've
got a chasing hammer,
a pair of chain nose flat nose pliers,
18 gauge craft wire.
It comes in a variety colors. I chose a
silver tone but you could you
gold or copper.
I have a pair of flush cutters
and finally a pair of round nose pliers. So
what you're going to need to do to begin
is clear off your workspace.
This requires quite a bit of tools
and I'm gonna cut three inches of wire
for the
that I want to make here.
Now if want to create a larger one cut a little
bit more wire. If you wanna make a
smaller one just cut a little bit less.
Just going to line this up with my ruler
It doesn't have to be exact. I'm
just doing about three inches
Just snip it.
Put my wire away. That's not going to be needed
anymore and the same with my
ruler.
Now I'm just going to
try to use my fingers
to straighten out the wire as best as
possible.
Once you've done that
take your round nose pliers
and we're going to do a technique which you've
probably seen another video by Beadaholique.com
which is how to create a spiral
head pin.
We're just going to do the same technique.
Go ahead and we're creating a
curve. I'm just working the wire
around my pliers. You see that
I have a hand motion like this. I'm grabbing
the wire
rotating it and I'm actually pushing the
wire
with my nondominant hand
around.
And once I've got one full kink and
just a little bit more.
I'm going to now take my
flat nose pliers and this is a really fine
tip one but I'm going to put it towards the back
so I can grip it
and I'm just going to
push that wire around a little bit more
and then release
move your pliers
still having a good grip on them
I'm just creating a spiral.
I'm letting this hand do all the
work and actually keeping this hand
steady
and I'm pushing my wire.
Once I've made a few spirals and I'm
happy with it I'm going to do the other
side.
Grab my round nose pliers
I'm going to create a little curve
another loop
and I'm doing it the same direction
so both of my swirls my spirals
are going to be facing upward.
So it's the opposite of creating an "S"
So I've got that right now.
Now I want to take
my wire and put it about
the midway point
on the furthest back part of my round nose
pliers because that's going to be the widest point
take my wire
and bend it
like so.
I've create a nice
like hook
just like that.
Now wire is great, you can manipulate it
all you want.
I want this to look like it's standing a
little bit straighter up
take my pliers
curve it a little bit
here we go
Just a little pinch.
If I want to alter shape at all
just put my round nose pliers back in there
and go like so.
Time to flatten it.
I got that nice shape going
relatively flat. I'm going to just try to
make it a little flat of my fingers before
I hammer it.
I got
the flat side of my chasing hammer
carefully tap it
Keep doing that until I get it
fairly flat.
Now go to the other side
making sure not hit my fingers
and just tap my spiral as well.
There we go.
You see it's now nice and flat.
I want to actually place that onto the
domino.
I'm going to take
the curve part here
and I'm going to lift it up a little bit
So you can see in the example
I want that curve to go over the top of
the
domino tile in the front. Just a little
decorative flourish.
You don't have to do that I think it adds
a nice little extra touch.
Open up my E6000
just a little bit
on the back
you can use a wire, a scrap piece of wire
applicator as well if you want.
I got glue on it
and just realizing I
went ahead and I twisted that in the wrong
direction. What I want to do is
go like that
easy enough.
Now it's going over the top
Just pressing it into place
on the back.
We have a custom made bail which would
work very well with
scrabble tiles and
bottle caps as well.
Now if you have a domino tile, scrabble tiles
or bottle caps and you don't want
to make your own custom bail but you
want to really quick easy and lovely
bail to use I would suggest using an
Aanraku bail.
Aanraku bails come in a variety of
shapes and sizes. They also come in
different finishes.
You have the pendant style one
with the hoop going to side
and then you have the earrings style with
the hoop facing forward.
I'll show you really quick how this looks.
So you would just put a little bit E6000
onto the glue on tab
then you would just
put your pendant, your tile on top of it
let it glue in place.
Works great for earrings as well.
I'll show you the side profile.
Here is the back
It goes up and over the
top
which makes it have a real nice finished
appearance
and then you suddenly have a little bail
which you can attach your earring hook
to
or a jump ring or whatever you want to attach
to it.
So those are some great choices
you can make your own custom bail.
It's not very hard and you get a lot of flexibility
on how you wanna make it look or
another great option is the
Aanraku bails which are quick and easy
and give you that desired hoop which you can
then attached to the rest of your jewelry
pieces.
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