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Old 2012-01-05, 8:07am
nevadaglass nevadaglass is offline
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Thank you Sharon! Those are awesome.

I continue to amaze myself of all the things that are so easy but I never think of LOL
I have been struggling with end caps for beads and how to make them look clean. I strung a couple of Moth dragons last night that I bought a while ago.

What I have been doing is tying a knot in the wire, running a small seed bead down to the knot then running a little bigger bead on to that, then placing my large focal bead.

Add a bead to the top and then creating a bail by wrapping and tying around a paint brush handle. It works but could be cleaner - this method will eliminate the seed bead and small knot showing and I can color compliment the focals!

Here's a pic of one of my own dragons using the knot and seed bead method - looks like crap!
(also not a great pic but you can see the seed bead and large bead below the dragon.


Your method will just make them look better! Bad part is now I have to restring everything once I get them made LOL


Thanks again

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