The Riveting and Crafting Tool by Crafted Findings… A Must in Your Bead Supplies

At last! A sophisticated, but easy to use new tool by Crafted Findings allows the average designer to make amazingly new and innovative jewelry like a professional. This tool gives a polished result to riveting two pieces of metal or a stack of components together, allowing you to expand your horizons in design potential!

Crafted Findings also has this amazing little animation to demonstrate what the tool can do. Check it out on the main page of this site… worth watching! This tool seems straight forward with no complicated abilities needed. In the past the only choices we had as beaders was to accept what was available out there for metal pendants, charms, components and the like. The age we live in now has evolved into our making our own pieces, such as in using PMC to create our own beads and pendants, and now we’re able to take our metals into a new direction with this amazing tool!

Pushing your creativity in new and better directions!

I love the look of a rivet in metal, especially if the metals are contrasting. A copper disc with a silver rivet just rocks! With this tool you can add a cupped metal flower to a flat piece of metal and you’ve got a 3-dimensional piece like no other. Or try layers. You can use the rivet to link using the hole, or if you want a more finished look you can choose to use a semi-tubular rivet.

The semi-tubular rivet has a solid head on one side, and a tubular post on the other side. So say you wanted to stack up a bunch of filigree flower shapes and attach them onto a piece of flat silver. The semi-tubular rivet allows you to have a small rounded shape that’s solid for the center of the flower. Beautiful! These rivets remind me of upholstery tacks, with their metal rounded shape.

So what can you make? I hate to tell you this… but the possibilities are ENDLESS! Scary, hm? Really, I’m being honest. There are countless ways you can use this tool. Begin by taking a piece of metal, say, a round shape. Then use it to make a hole… and you’ve got a pendant or charm. Or punch another hole in the opposite end and you’ve got a connector. Make more holes and you’ve got a way to thread wire through to do some sculptural beading on top. Or, make holes around the edge and lace wire or fibers through it. And that’s just holes! There’s more!

Stack up some metal pieces and you can use the rivet end to attach them together. Linking metal means you can create larger, more sculptural pieces! And it opens up a 3-dimensional world to your work. Been wondering what to do with those strips of stamped metal words you made? Well, attach them collage style to a pendant base! While you’re at it, tack a couple of metal flowers on there to give it more personality, and you’ve got a one of a kind, brilliant little piece of goodness!

Getting out of the rut

How many of you have asked yourself this question: How can I make my jewelry truly one of a kind? How many of you have had this desire: I want my jewelry to stand out in the crowd, to be innovative and a pioneer of design! Well, quest no more. This tool is going to open up doors  and will set you free of your limitations.

If you’re lucky enough to be local, stop by the Beadin’ Path in Freeport, Maine to see what the talented ladies there are creating. It won’t take long before you’re spellbound!  

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” Scott Adams

Resources worth checking out!

Ssdjewelry

Ticklebean

Theroyalbead

Soulsongcreations

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