Audio Transcript. Note: This audio transcript is auto-generated and may not be completely accurate. Hi, this is Julie with Beadaholique. You might have seen them and not known what to do with them. So they open up just like this and you'll see there's a little locking mechanism in them so it snaps together. You'll here it snap shut when it's tight and it holds in place. What you do with these is let's say you have a long necklace such as a strand of pearls or another necklace which is perhaps thirty inches in length and you want to shorten it.
You don't want to wear it as one long strand such as this but you want to wrap it a couple times around your neck and it might not have a clasp to it to make it easy to do that so what you can do is you'll fold your necklace in half like so you just take your necklace shortener slip it between the folds and clasp it shut and it works like that.
So you can do it like this we've got two strands which you can see are separated but there's another way of doing this as well. You just open up that finding and I'm going to twist my strand of pearls. I'm going to give it a really nice lush, thick look. There we go so now it looks like a lovely twisted strand. You'll see I've slipped this though each half and now I'm just going to close it shut until it makes a clicking sound.
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Pearl rings are delicate, beautiful, and very finicky to take care of! Stainless steel is a popular choice for a variety of jewelry, such as bracelets,…. Enter the contest. Skip to content Cart is empty. Your cart is empty Browse our services. The Chain Shortening Process To shorten an item, the jeweler simply measures how many inches need to be removed from one area of the item.
Shortening Complex Jewelry Pieces This rope chain shows the difference after repair. How can we help? Notify of. Oldest Newest Most Voted. Inline Feedbacks. And that's a good thing because my old favorite oval shortener that I was going to brag about kinda failed me big time the first time I used it on this necklace. Oval Shortener. The shortener was invented to shorten pearls and beaded necklaces by allowing you to double them up.
It also works well to combine necklaces in a pretty twist. I'd like to dispel a misunderstanding about shorteners. If you have a 20" necklace and you want to shorten it to a 16" necklace this is not a job for a shortener.
Even one of the extra special ones mentioned below that stop pearls from sliding through. What happens is you make your necklace 16" with one of these shorteners, pulling the excess pearls behind your neck.
And within 15 minutes the clumpy bit from behind your neck is falling down your chest looking like your drunk uninvited Uncle Eddy at the wedding. Short is in! Don't let your long necklaces lay unworn in your jewelry box. Try out the necklace shortener idea and find a way to be up date and different with your long necklace.
If you're thinking of buying a long necklace to double, try a 32" at minimum in length. Doubled you'll end up with a two strand 16" necklace. Sometimes a chunky celebration of color at the neck makes you glow.
Try taking two or more long necklaces and twisting them with a large oval necklace shortener. What I love about doing this is that it's temporary and involves no restringing or redesigning. The sudden versatility you gain with new ways of wearing necklaces you already own is inspiring. My outfit often feels newer and more special when I've concocted a new necklace combo to wear with it. Necklace shorteners come in a variety of shapes and sizes, much like sapphires come in an array of colors.
When you use a classic oval necklace shortener it works best if you are making your necklace very close to the base of your neck. When the oval shortener is used to create longer lengths, like 20" and 19" for each strand, one strand can tighten up until it's a super short 16" allowing the other to lengthen to In other words the shorter strand can end up feeling uncomfortably like a choker. Jewelry problems can be fixed. The oval shortener would let the beads slide through when you moved, unless they were very large.
Much like the choke-y picture at the top of the blog. As happy as I was to discover shorteners some years ago, I found that I couldn't choose the exact lengths I wanted for the necklace of my outfit when I needed longer lengths. I refused to use a safety pin.
Happily a nice jeweler somewhere heard my cries and solved my problem. Happily the figure eight necklace shortener was created.
It was created to lock in place the area of shortening that you choose. The figure eight shortener's middle pinched section will hold the pearls or beads from moving when you turn your head or jump for joy.
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