Thread: Bead Roller

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While we are on the subject of bead rolling, we all know how hard it is to make perfectly straight lines. Here is a way to do that and it insures they will be straight every time. I can't take credit for this one, my Son Dan came up with it.

The idea is to clamp two pieces of flat stock to the piece you are rolling the beads into, spaced apart the width of the dies, so that they act as rails for the dies to travel along. He cut a couple small pieces of steel to fit inside the guides that act as stops so that you can not go beyond that point, which makes the beads all the same length.

Here are some pictures that will explain it better than I can. I have more than 5 so I will do it in two posts.

Don

The forum arranged the pictures in the wrong sequence but you will get the picture. To insure that each bead was as deep as the others, we brought the die down until it just touched the piece then turned the crank that puts the pressure on the work exactly the same number of rotations each time so that the die was set at the same depth each pass. Hope this helps someone else out.

Don