{"id":173,"date":"2012-08-03T16:27:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T16:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tahiradesigns\/?p=173"},"modified":"2012-08-04T16:45:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T16:45:18","slug":"crimping-pliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tahiradesigns\/crimping-pliers\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimping Pliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When I first started beading, I bought the minimum tools needed, but man how I wish I had bought these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firemountaingems.com\/details.asp?pn=H201602TL\">Crimping Pliers<\/a> from Fire Mountain Gems all those years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i1058.photobucket.com\/albums\/t408\/TahiraDesigns\/_DSC0068.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"412\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My life has not been the same since I started using these. Before, I would just use my flat nose pliers and just smash the crimp bead down onto the wire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i1058.photobucket.com\/albums\/t408\/TahiraDesigns\/_DSC0073.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As you can see, not a pretty site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i1058.photobucket.com\/albums\/t408\/TahiraDesigns\/_DSC0069-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"688\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But now, my pieces look more professional and I don\u2019t have to worry about the wire slipping out of the bead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The two step crimping system is definitely the way to go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i1058.photobucket.com\/albums\/t408\/TahiraDesigns\/Thumbsup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"84\" \/>For its ease of use and professional looking finish, this gets a big thumbs up for sure!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started beading, I bought the minimum tools needed, but man how I wish I had bought these Crimping Pliers from Fire Mountain Gems all those years ago. \u00a0 My life has not been the same since I started using these. Before, I would just use my flat nose pliers and just smash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tahiradesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tahiradesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tahiradesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tahiradesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tahiradesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tahiradesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tahiradesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tahiradesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tahiradesigns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}