Can i use scissors to cut my beaded wire?
I want to start making beaded jewelry i wanted to know if anybody know if i can use scissors to shape the wire? And i wanted to know if michaels arts & craft have diff colored beads??
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As far as using scissors for jewelry making I would suggest you don’t use them and check the links below.
Michael’s has 523 items for jewelry and beading
Joann has 3825 items on 240 pages site everything you will need including the plastic boxes to keep your equipment in
I wouldn’t use scissors to cut wire unless you have to, then use the way-back end of the scissors or some stronger scissors like those for cutting in the kitchen or for cutting metal sheeting, etc. And I wouldn’t use “good scissors” and shears at all.
You can easily cut most wire though with toenail clippers (and thinner wires with fingernail clippers).
That won’t give you a totally flat surface on each end of the cut wire if that matters, but you’d have to buy the more expensive jewelry wire cutters called “flush cutters” for that purpose (or you could also file the ends if necessary).
(Also don’t use good jewelry wire cutters for anything they’re not intended for or you’ll ruin the blade).
Re the colored beads, Michaels or any other craft store like Hobby Lobby or even Joanns Fabrics, etc, should have a decent selection depending on what you want.
************* OOPS *********** I thought you said to “cut” beaded wire instead of shaping it…hmmm, guess you said both.
For shaping wire, you can use anything that’s stiff enough that will give you the shape you want, and that you can get the wire off of. All kinds of things are often used, all the way up to “jigs” made in special shapes.
If you’re talking about “bending” the wire as shaping it (rather than shaping the wire around some part of the scissors), then generally you’d use various kinds of pliers, though many shapes can be hand-formed or bent around “rods” like markers, over the edge of tables, etc.
If you have no pliers that don’t have teeth, you can wrap the ends with masking tape to keep the teeth from making marks in your wire.
If you have only regular garage pliers, there are a lot of “fine, detailed” shapes you won’t be able to create.
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no, use pliers to do that