My mother loves to bead but Fireline is expensive where she is. So I bought her some from a local fishing shop (Kingsway Fishing Tackle, Guelph). They sell Fireline in 100 m lots for a lot cheaper than if you bought it in a store and definitely far less than from a jewelry supplier. The problem is, I have to mail it to her, preferably as flat as possible in an envelope and not on a spool.
The tackle shop had wound both the black and crystal Fireline on two sides of the same big reel. So I had to transfer 400 m of the stuff to some cardboard, preferably before I grew more grey hair. I rigged up my wire coiler with a mandrel that I stuck into a piece of corrugated cardboard.
I also created a makeshift reel holder in a few seconds flat by placing the reel on a car exhaust pipe fitting (I use it as a bracelet mandrel) with a wooden dowel. Viola! The Fireline was rewound in next to no time as I could crank the coiler handle very fast.
It didn't occur to me that a) one could use this tip to make tassels - different widths of cardboard would be necessary b) there was actually a little gizmo for exactly that task until my friend Aims happened to send me
the video link for a Beadalon Tassel Maker tool! It is demonstrated by Katie Hacker for
Art Beads.
Wonders never cease!
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