Using the right tool for the job can help you in your beading. It can make them more secure crimps and heater loops.
Here is a guide to your common jewelry hand tools.
* Crimping Tool: This is Must have tool when stringing beads! They easily secure crimp tubes and beads to your beading wire. The tool has two notches for closing your crimps( when your crimp tool is closed, one notch forms on "o" and one forms a "u" . The crimp first & squeeze your tube or bend in the "u" shaped notch to keep it in place. then squeeze it on the "o: shaped notch to further secure and round it.
* Flush cut pliers: THis took can tri head pins, eye pins and beading wire. Flush cutters allow a flat even cut. for a perfect flush cut, always keep the waste end of your wire toward the concave side of the cutters.
