How Do You Make Beads From Copper Tubing?
The competitive world of beaded jewelry includes a wide range of handmade choices. To set your beaded jewelry apart from the crowded selections, consider your own custom-made copper tubing beads. Mark off a series of 1-inch marks on the outside of the copper tubing. Slide the end of the tubing into the mouth of a copper tubing cutter. Tighten the jaw closed until the cutting wheel bites into the surface of the tubing. Rotate the cutter 360 degrees around the tubing. Tighten the jaw further, and rotate the tool again. Repeat until the tool has cut all the way through the wall of the tubing. Continue cutting the rest of the copper tube bead sections. Clamp a Phillips screwdriver into a swivel-head bench vise. Slide one of the cut tube sections onto the shaft of the screwdriver. Slide a block of wood against the bottom face of the copper tubing so that it can’t rotate on the screwdriver. Hold a decorative metal stamping tool in the non-dominant hand. Hold a hammer in the other. Place the
