Tool:
Beadsmith 1-Step Looper Pliers, 3mm
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Also shown:
KNIPEX - Long Nose Pliers, Round Tips
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Transcript:
Hey, I’m Donald Bell for Cool Tools and today we’re looking at 1-step loop pliers. If you’re interested, you can find a link to them down in the description.
Sometimes, you gotta love a tool that just does one thing really well.
These 1-step loop pliers are primarily used in jewelry making. It’s not a hobby of mine, but I still think these are useful general crafting tool to have handy.
Here’s what they do. You run a wire through here. Give it a squeeze. And you have a perfectly sized loop.
In this case, it’s a loop that measures exactly 3mm in its inner diameter, which is defined by the size of this pin here. That’s the size I ordered these in, but you can get smaller sizes too, down to 1.5mm.
Now, here’s the really clever part. You’ve made your loop on one end of your wire, you thread some stuff on it…
...now you can poke the end with the excess wire all the way through using the hole in the jaw here.
Give it a squeeze. And not only do you get another perfect loop right up to where you want it, but it trims off the excess wire in the process. That’s a cool trick.
It’s intended for 26-18 gauge brass or copper wire. Some reviewers say it works fine on stainless steel wire.
Some people swear by these for creating fishing lures. There’s a trick you can do to bypass the cutter by pre-bending the wire and placing it while it’s halfway open.
This gives you a kind of hairpin hook, that could be useful for other applications, or twisted up for a more secure connection.
But that’s all there is to it. If you work with solid wire at all or jewelry, maybe freeform circuit design, or automata, this could come in real handy, save you some strain, and deliver very consistently sized loops.
Again, you can find a link to it down in the description, and you can see thousands of reader recommended tools like these at cool-tools.org.
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5 окт 2024
