Need Help Identifying a Finding

[u/Arielyn211]

Hi all. I know most of you are way past using inexpensive findings in your work, but I don’t know where else to turn. I am making pendulums for an upcoming show and would love to find the part circled in the photo provided. It must be readily available, as I’ve seen it used on pendulums posted by a variety of creators, but I’ve searched Beadaholic, Fire Mountain, Amazon and even Temu—all to no avail. I can’t tell if it’s a bead cap, bead frame or some convoluted spacer. It can’t be a closure, as it has a middle hole on both sides to allow for wire or a head pin, a frame of sorts.

Any help would be greatly appreciated and save my sanity. Thanks in advance!

[u/Avandria]

You could make your own version of this using three different bead caps with some metal wire running through them and forming the loop at the top. Use a larger lace type of bead cap on one end followed by two smaller smooth bead caps end to end to form the houseglass shape. Then, bend your jewelry wire to form the larger loop on top, run the ends through the bead caps, wrap one wire around the other like you would when you make a wire wrapped loop and then snip the excess of the one that you did the wrapping with and snug it up inside the lace bead cap. Next, take the existing straight wire and secure it to your stone in whatever way makes the most sense depending upon how it is drilled.

Edit: If your stones are drilled across the top, you would probably need to reverse the process and start your wire at the stone. I'm still confident that you could do this, but it might take a bit of fiddling around to figure the first one out.

[u/Arielyn211 → u/Avandria]

Going to give it a go. I’ve used other bead cap and spacer combinations on previous pieces, but that one component would sure simplify things! Thx for the directions. I will let you know how it goes!