Handmade Jewelry-Making Basics – What is a Crimp?
spiral pattern cut into the tubes that might add patterns to the crimp, but they still flatten into rectangles. Crimp-on hooks and crimp-on eyes have either a hook shape or an “eye” (a closed loop) attached to a tube made of heavier gauge metal.
How are jewelry crimps used?
Bead Wire Projects
A first use of crimp tubes and crimp beads is to fasten findings such as toggles or lobster claw clasps and jump rings onto stranded beading wire. The end of a piece of bead wire is threaded through a crimp, around a finding and back through the crimp before the crimp is flattened with one of two jewelry-making pliers: flat nose pliers or chain nose pliers, both of which are smooth on the inside and meant to minimize marking on the findings.
Some use two alternate tools for crimping: two stage crimping pliers
