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- Oct 10, 2013
Design Your Own Personalized Charm Necklace with Drop Beads and Golden Wire
Summary: How to design your own personalized charm necklace pattern with transparent acrylic drop beads and golden aluminum wire; this DIY necklace tutorial will tell you!
I am always having plenty of DIY necklace ideas in my mind but seldom are realized, why? Because the ideas are personalized, and difficult-to-handle, I quit then; but this one is different, it belongs to simple type although time-consuming. It is a good choice when you plan to design your own personalized charm necklace.
Materials and tools for this personalized charm necklace:
1.5mm golden aluminum wire
0.5mm golden copper wire
4mm rubber cord black
Transparent acrylic beads drop shape
Golden lobster clasp
Golden head pins
Round nose plier
Flat nose plier
Wire cutter
Instructions for personalized charm necklace:
Step 1: Prepare charms and attach them to rubber cord
1st, coil aluminum wire around round nose plier 3 or 4 times;
2nd, cut it off and the hanger is done;
3rd, slide a drop bead onto head pin and loop the rest with plier; so the bead charm is done;
4th, coil a piece of aluminum wire into lollipop shape, so the wire charm is done;
5th, pick a 40cm length of rubber cord, slide a hanger that is 6cm away from the end;
6th, crimp down one circle of the coil hanger and attach bead charm onto it;
7th, in the same way slide the hangers onto cord and attach wire charm alternately.
When all the charms on, it looks like this:
Step 2: Fix clasp to the ends of rubber cord
1st, with round nose plier, make two coiled cord ends out of 0.8mm copper wire;
2nd, attach cord ends to rubber cord;
3rd, make a pair of jump rings and attach lobster clasp onto ends.
The final look is like this:
Great! You have done your own personalized charm necklace! The reason why do I say this DIY necklace project takes much time is findings ranging from hangers to jump rings are completely handmade. Therefore I recommend if findings involved in this project are available in your place, just use them to save a lot of time.