If you make jewelry you may have wondered if you really could use a
bracelet mandrel and if so what kind wood or metal, tapered or stepped? In
today's video I'm going to go over the pros and cons of all those options. Hey
there creative people, Sandy here, welcome to another Friday findings video at
keepsakecrafts.net. The nice folks at Beebeecraft sent along these two
bracelet mandrels for me to show you and tell you all about - these happen to be
both wood mandrels and as you can see they are a rather different in style -
this one is tapered with a smooth side and this one is stepped, so these from
lip to lip have parallel sides whereas this is tapered all along its entire
length and they have both have pros and cons. I will say I wasn't real
impressed with this one from Beebeecraft, it came with a chip and then there was
like a sticker on there I don't know, it looks like it has been removed I'm sure
a little Goo Gone will take care of that -they both have a light satin finish on them.
Now these are both round as you can see they do make oval mandrels which
may fit better and help your bracelets from keep your bracelets from flipping
around but if you're selling people usually expect bracelets to be round
unless it's a cuff bracelet. So the benefits of having a wooden mandrel over
a steel one is that steel ones are heavy and if you spend a lot of time working
on them you may get fatigued - you'll probably need some way of holding it - the
wooden ones are of course less heavy but you can't hammer on them nearly as
aggressively as you can on the steel ones these ones you could put something
like one of my copper bangles on and then hammer on that lightly maybe to get
it back into shape because it seems to be quite not round at the moment just
from me wearing it so you could form bracelets and you can do light hammering
on the wood - it will get dented and dinged I can actually can just I'm using
this right now to just kind of reshape this bracelet back to more of the
round shape - you could definitely hammer on it like I
said lightly you can't wale away on it like you can
on a metal mandrel and really create some serious texture or do a major amount of
shaping - so that's something to keep in mind is the kind of work you're doing.
Now when working on a tapered mandrel if you're doing something with any width to
it probably anything wider than this you'll want to keep flipping your piece
around because otherwise you're going to build a taper into it - that's the benefit
of a stepped mandrel that you don't have to do that however you can see right
here the limitations of a stepped mandrel is that you only have certain
sizes - you only have these specific sizes to work with and you can't get the
increments - one thing I did with this stepped mandrel as soon as I got it I
got out a tape measure and a sharpie and I wrote them dimensions that I have on
here. Now as far as bracelet making these are pretty good dimensions for all the
different sizes, down from a men's a fairly large bracelet down to a
child's and if you're forming something on this one because these sides are
parallel and not tapered you don't have to worry about your piece not being
parallel. So what kinds of things can you do with either of these? Well, you can use
them for sizing. I'll talk more about that in a minute, you can use them for
designing just to see you know how is something going to look in the round, you
can use it to make wire work frames in sizes, if you need a circle that's a
certain size you can use this or this depending on what you need. And by the
way if you have these measurements here and you want a circle that's a certain
diameter - say you're making a wire frame for something - all you have to do to
figure that out is divide this number by
3.14 so let's say this six-and-a-half divided by Pi.
So this one is gonna give you just a slightly more than two inch diameter
circle and you could even do that if you do more wire forming than bracelet
making you could write those numbers on here as well and then you'll always have
them. Now you can use these to form metal but you can form other things, you could
use these for polymer clay or metal clay - what you'd want to do is make a sleeve
of paper that would go over your form over your mandrel to protect it from the
clay and the clay from it and then you can shape things on the piece of paper
on the mandrel. Now these don't have a tang on the end which is a block of wood
you can see it here in the picture that you use for holding your mandrel in a
bench vice or another holder - now if you hold it in a bench vise that can be
problematic because it only stays in one direction and if you're working on a
bracelet you're probably gonna want to turn it around and work around and
around so they do make some pretty cool holders for those. So the benefits of
each: well for the tapered you can make bangles around so you can slide
something down like I was doing and get it back in to round and you have finer
increments of size, if there's a size you work with all the time you can use a
sharpie and draw a line around at that point so that you always have it as a
reference - the benefits of the stepped are that they're good for planning like a
multi strand bracelet so that you know that each is the same length - another
thing you can use this for is as a photo prop, it actually looks really nice you
just throw a few bracelets on there and it's a great way of displaying bracelets
or even necklaces or other things without having your hand in there and
your wrist and having... it's kind of awkward to take a photo of your own
wrist - photos taken this way give more of a feel of that this is something that
would be worn on a wrist. I wouldn't buy one of these just for that but it's
certainly a good use. Now these mandrels were both $11.89 at
Beebeecraft and if you buy stainless-steel ones although of course
they're going to last longer be more durable you can do more hammering and
work on them, you can solder on them which I wouldn't recommend on these, the
stainless steel mandrels can be $30-$40 dollars and up depending on the size and
the brand and they also come in tapered and stepped also this tapered one gives
you a little bit more of a range from end to end - the taper is at the very
smallest up here four and five eighths in diameter and that the widest down
here is nine inches in diameter so if that's important that's something to
keep in mind, and of course it again it depends on the brand that you purchase.
One of my favorite things though about using a mandrel like this is getting
sizes right and I'll show you what I mean.
Sizing can be tricky with bracelets because you can have two bracelets and
if they are different thicknesses they need to be different lengths - these two
bracelets, this little gold charm bracelet and this one, I did a video
showing how to make this I'll link that, fit me exactly the same - however
this one is about an inch and a half longer and that's because it really
isn't the length that matters in sizing a bracelet, it is the inside diameter -
because if you think about it you're making it to fit around a round or oval
shape and so what matters is what is in here and if you have something very
thick, if you have very thick beads or a thick cord then you need more length in
order to get the inside diameter that you need. So I'll show you what I mean,
like I said these bracelets both fit me exactly the same and I'll show you
that. So here I'm gonna pop this one on the mandrel. I was given this bracelet
by my husband many years ago and he and my boys for a while there were regularly
adding charms to it, then the price of gold kind of went bonkers
I don't know maybe a little over a decade ago, nobody has gotten mama any gold
charms for a while, it's too rich! So there's that one, now you might be amazed
to see that this fits exactly the same and it's not just that that bracelet is
stopping it it is stopping in the same place - so that can be really helpful to
you if you need to make a bracelet that's the exact, an exact size for a
customer or a gift to have this to test on and practice on. Now that I have them
I suspect I'll be using them a lot. It's not a huge investment for the wooden
ones - good to try out and see if you like it enough and if you do enough metal
forming to maybe purchase metal ones in the future. If you're interested in the
things I mentioned in this video I'll have a link to my blog post in the
description box and also in the upper right of the video where there will be product
links and link to the videos that I mentioned in this video. So happy creating!
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