Hello All,
Really need some help! Have spent nearly all day doing same crimp over and over again and still not right. I am making an asymmetrical necklace and one half is beads threaded onto 49 strand copper Beadsmith wire. The first crimp is fine as I have the room to crimp and then move the beads into place. The second crimp I can't get right. It doesn't matter how tight I pull the wire to make sure the bead is snug against the crimp tube, I hold it hanging down vertical when I'm doing it so that the weight of the beads weighs down on the wire and there is no slack left. I doesn't matter what I do there is ALWAYS a gap between the crimp tube and the next bead where the wire shows, It's only tiny but it's there. When I look at photos of other peoples work I cannot see this gap. I don't want to use crimp covers, and even if I did I'd get the same problem somewhere. I literally can't see how to get this gap closed...or am I being too too fussy?
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