Jewelry Making? Head pins?
I’m starting jewelry making, & I want to make stuff something like this:
http://www.astarte-moon.co.uk/shop/images/jewellery/ Charm%20bracelet%20black%20cross.jpg
Basically, necklaces & bracelets with LOADS of charms & beads.
My problem is I have beads ranging from 2mm(seed beads) to 8mm. And I ordered head pins online the size is 20g / 20mm.
Would any of the beads I have fit on this head pin, or would I have to go smaller?
No, the seed beeds should fit.
They may fit, or you may need to go a bit smaller to 24g or 26g. It depends on the beads themselves, what company you bought them from, the weight of the beads etc.
http://www.stonesandfindings.com
Generally head pins and eye pins come in one basic shank diameter, and even regular seed beads will fit on those. They’ll go through 8mm beads as well of course, but the beads won’t fit “tightly” and may move around (you can add a small bead on top or bottom of the larger bead if that bothers you).
Sometimes “natural” beads have holes that are too small for even head or eye pin shanks though since they may have been created by hand in villages, etc, though. Those can be “reamed out” (with a reamer-rasp) or drilled larger though usually.