How to Make Hanging Earrings
Select your beads and gather the earring hooks, head pins, needle nose and chain nose pliers., Arrange the beads the way you would like them, placing the bead you would like at the bottom on first and so on. , With your pliers, bend the excess head...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Select your beads and gather the earring hooks
These tools and materials are all essential.
See the picture for further detail. ,,, Alternatively, attempt the "Jump Ring" Technique below. , Notice in the picture that the pins are not bent all the way around. ,,,, -
Step 2: head pins
Cut the excess and tuck the end in so that it does not stick out.
This creates a closed, secure loop. , Close the jump ring securely. , Instead, slide one end past the other (perpendicular to the plane of the ring) to open, and slide back in the same manner to close. -
Step 3: needle nose and chain nose pliers.
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Step 4: Arrange the beads the way you would like them
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Step 5: placing the bead you would like at the bottom on first and so on.
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Step 6: With your pliers
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Step 7: bend the excess head pin over 90 degrees on both earrings.
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Step 8: With the steel cutting pliers
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Step 9: cut off the pin until it is only 1 centimeter (0.4Â in) long.
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Step 10: Get your earring hook and with the chain nose pliers
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Step 11: bend the head pin around in a circle.
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Step 12: Slide the hook onto the half bent pin and then bend the pin all the way around so there is no way the hook can slip off and earring fall apart.
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Step 13: Slip the earrings into the holes of your ears (you must have pierced ears to wear these earrings) and show them off!
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Step 14: Finished.
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Step 15: Follow instructions 1 to 3 as above
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Step 16: but skip step 4 above by not cutting the pin yet.
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Step 17: Bend the head pin all the way around
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Step 18: then wrap it several times around the pin where it just comes out of the bead.
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Step 19: Open a "jump ring" (basically a circle of wire that's not entirely closed) and slide on the head pin with beads and the earring hook.
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Step 20: When opening a jump ring
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Step 21: do not pull the ends apart directly away from each other (such that they are still in the same plane); this weakens the ring.
Detailed Guide
These tools and materials are all essential.
See the picture for further detail. ,,, Alternatively, attempt the "Jump Ring" Technique below. , Notice in the picture that the pins are not bent all the way around. ,,,,
Cut the excess and tuck the end in so that it does not stick out.
This creates a closed, secure loop. , Close the jump ring securely. , Instead, slide one end past the other (perpendicular to the plane of the ring) to open, and slide back in the same manner to close.
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