The Beadsmith 1-Step Looper, 1.5 millimeter, 24-18 gauge Craft Wire, Create Consistent Loops for Rosaries, Earrings, Bracelets, Necklaces and Wire Jewelry in 1 Step

Brad looper
Love love love this tool! It makes jewelry making so much easier by not taking so much time to make a perfect loop. Well worth the cost

Bead to bead with ease
The tool for the job is this item. Works as stated and makes beading so much more fun.

Fast loops
This works very well to create small loops. The learning curve is short, but I recommend looking at the Beadsmith website for the video tutorial. There are instructions on the back of the packaging, but they are confusing as they actually show two different things: the first pictures show simply creating a loop and then additional pictures show how you can trim a longer piece of wire as you are looping. That was clear as mud as I thought originally it was all one process and made no sense.The loops are very small — 1.5mm. The picture on the packaging makes them look huge.If you want the loop close to the bead, practice a bit with some scrap wire.Notice it specifically says to use with “dead-soft or half-hard precious metal wire, craft wire and copper or brass core wire . . . between twenty-six to eighteen gauges.Only the slightest hand strength is required. The tool does the work. It can be a great relief for people who have problems with repetitive wrist motions who would have trouble making numerous loops using pliers.Beadsmith also makes another “BIG” looper that makes larger loops (3mm), if that’s what you need. That works with 24 to 18 gauge.Update: I just finished making a necklace where I had to make many, many loops. I have to say this tool wore me out. The two handles are so far apart that the initial grasp got to be so much of an effort that I had to use two hands. Once I started to squeeze, I could take the other hand off. Seriously, it got so tiresome trying to wrap my hand onto the two handles, my hand started to hurt. It’s not noticeable when I only do a few loops, but sustained use was not fun. By the way, I have average-size hands, not particularly small.The other problem I encountered was that you have to feed extra wire into the tool with each loop for it to cut off. If not, it can’t grap the wire securely enough to loop. If I tried to just get it to the end instead of the extra overlap, it wouldn’t form the circle. That means with every loop, I lost a bit of wire. It was a bit tense; I finished my necklace with about 3 inches of wire left on the spool, and lots of little pieces all over the place that I had to clean up.So overall, still a good product and easier than hand-looping (if that is the correct term), but keep in mind you will need extra wire and it’s best to try not to make a lot of loops at one time.

I love it
I love it!! Makes perfect loops!!!

Wat een handige apparaat, geweldig!

Easy to use .

Super outil ! Mais dommage que le diamètre de l’anneau formé soit uniquement de 1,5 mm. À quand d’autres pinces pour d’autres formats ?