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Crimps and Crimp Covers
- Crimp beads and crimp tubes provide a secure and professional finish to beading cord and cable. Plus, they're a cinch to use once you get the hang of it (see below for how-to instructions)!
- Crimp covers easily sit atop a crimped bead or crimp tube, looking like a small round spacer bead. They are a great way to hide scratchy cable ends, when your end beads are too tiny to run the cable back through.
- Center Crimps, Fold-Over Crimps, Prong Cord Ends and more crimp ends are for leather cord, cotton cord, beading chain, heavy cables and more -- click in for more information about each type of crimp end.
- Scrimps by Beadalon are like durable crimps with tiny built-in screws that you can tighten and loosen without bending or misshaping your designs.
Crimp beads and crimp tubes are designed for securing the ends of jewelry stringing cable. Some also work for memory wire or stretchy cord. Crimp tubes are almost identical to crimp beads. Some crimp tubes are longer, which can give you more crimping surface for extra security. To finish a necklace or bracelet with crimp beads: - String a crimp bead onto the beading cable, then string a clasp.
- Optional: Add bullion or a wire protector.
(Wire Protectors can help prevent fraying on designs that get a lot of movement, or simply hide the color of your beading wire.) - Loop the cable back through the crimp bead.
- Tighten up the loop, but not too tight! Use flat-nose pliers to flatten the crimp, or use crimping pliers to crimp the bead into a small rounder crimp.
- Trim the excess cable.
- If desired, use large crimping pliers to close a crimp cover over the crimp bead.
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