How to Make Headpin Charms with Headpins

I am sure most of people know what headpins are, no matter you like to create jewelry or not. As essential jewelry finding for jewelry making, headpins are widely used in create headpin charms for bracelets, necklaces and earrings. These pins are available in different colors and sizes, you can easily find what you need for your projects.

Iron Headpins

What is a headpin charm? It is any dangly sort of drop constructed on a headpin. Most people start making headpin charms for earrings, but they are also great for charm bracelets because you can wire wrap to securely attach them. If you were to use a jump ring or split ring on your charm bracelets, there is always the risk of the ring pulling apart unless you solder the ring. And we also said that making stringing bracelets or necklaces is the easiest way to start your jewelry making, so you can string a bracelet and just attach a headpin charm on the extended chain of bracelet.

Brass Ball Headpins

Using headpin to make a headpin charm is a “techie thing”. The essential step is making a loop. Let us take a 6mm bicone crystal bead and a headpin about 4cm for example. Put the bead on the pin, then grip the pin about 3mm past the end of the bead with round nose pliers. While firmly holding the bead at the bottom of the pin with one hand, gently twist your other wrist to bend the pin 90 degrees to form a right angle. With the round nose pliers still on the headpin at the point of the bend, use your fingers to wrap the tail of the headpin around the round nose pliers to form a full loop. Bring the wire tail all the way around the nose of the plier to create a nice, round loop. In order to let this loop look more beautiful, you can continue coiling the pin tail around the base until the bottom coil is flush against the top of the bead. Snip the excess pin tail with your flush cutters. A simple bead headpin charm is finished. Just attach it to extended chain of your bracelet, which will add more beauty for your stringing bracelet. And it is not just a simple stringing bracelet any more.

It is also very suitable for beginners of jewelry making to get start, although it needs to use a simple wire wrap technique. Practice makes perfect--he more you practice, the better you will do. So you will need more headpins for both practice and jewelry projects. Purchase them from online wholesale stores can save a lot of money and time if you purchase them with other jewelry materials together.