
Beading: Materials Needed for DIY - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. You actually do not need a lot of materials to get started for basic beading which is one of the things that makes it such a fun and awesome hobby, but you do need a few things in front of you and in your work space before you start. First you need something to put your beads on, and there are a couple of options for that. The first one is one of these guys which is a little Valex bead mat. These are really nice because you can put round beads on these and they do not roll away. Something that will help you with your designing is this. This is a bead board. And a bead board has a channel in which you can lay out your design so that you can actually preview your design before you string it, and it has these nice indented channels. So, once again, you are not chasing beads under the coffee table. You need a few simple tools to get started. You need three pliers. You need a chain nose pliers, a round nose pliers, and a good wire cutter. Your chain nose pliers are for grabbing and holding wires. They are also for squashing your crimp beads. Your round nose pliers are for helping you make your perfectly rounded loops on earrings and wire out projects, and your wire cutters, of course, are for cutting your wire. If you are just doing basic stringing with your stainless steel stringing cable and your crimp beads, you really only need your chain nose pliers and a wire cutter and if you do not have a <b>...</b>
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