Bugle beads are made by drawing long tubes of molten glass out until they are fine enough. Once cooled, they are then chopped up into the desired lengths. You too can make your own bugle beads without having to work with glass! You can use them for super light upcycled jewelry or perhaps a craft item of your choice.
The first thing is to cut the strips.
The instructor uses a plastic bottle cutting tool – more about those at the end. His homemade wire coil (and drawplate to size the wire coil) helps him keep the strip steady and in shape as he pulls it through above a hot air blower. The heat curls the strip which then folds over itself in the confined space inside the wire coil.
The width of the strips and the size of the wire coil will dictate the diameter of the bugle beads.
The video tutorial is in Russian – the English closed captions do not work. But you can still get what he is doing.
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