The Beadsmith Original One Step Looper – Create and Trim Consistent 1.5 mm Loops for Jewelry Making, Use With 24-18g Craft Wire (Patented)

The One Step Looper is a game changer! Perfect loops every time and easy to use. I like the grip, which makes it easy to hold onto. The looper is well made and sturdy. The looper makes it quick and easy to make or repair jewelry. I think I’ll get the next size looper fr bigger pieces. The 1.5mm is good for smaller projects, but I sometimes need a bigger loop. I would recommend this product to others.

This is my new favorite tool and makes jewelry making so much easier and faster. Beadsmith is a great company with quality products.

Works well and is easy to use. Will save much time when doing individual beads as a chain. Quality appears to be sturdy. Very happy with purchase.

Where has this tool been? I saw a Facebook ad for this 1-step looper and immediately went to Amazon for it. I don't trust most FB ads (probably a cheap Chinese rip-off). I found The Beadsmith brand, which I totally trust, and purchased the 1.5 mm looper. Oh, my gosh, this makes it SO much easier to make linked jewelry or to make a loop in a head pin for pendants or earrings. I literally just sat here in way less than an hour and made a pendant and earring set and two bracelets! I'll attach a picture. I had a very slight learning curve just figuring out how close to the bead I could place the tool. You can actually pretty much rest the bead on the edge of the tool, and it will be nice and tight. I've attached a few pictures to show how close you can get. After joining the linked components together, you just need to close the loop up, which doesn't take much. I may invest in the next larger size of the looper tool (2 mm, I believe) in the future, but this size is really sufficient for my needs so far. If you enjoy making your own jewelry, then this tool would be a great investment at only $30.00. You will save a LOT of your valuable time! Edit: I did end up buying the 2.25mm tool as well. This size is closer to the size of the loop on an eye pin you'd buy in the store just for a visual reference. I'm very happy with both tools!

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.

Wish I had purchased this years ago, recently purchased as hands have to much authoritis to make i-pins with plyers. This makes them perfect, then add a bead and put loop next to the bead. I can do all my beads for making Rosaries in a couple of hours. Highly recommend this tool I have the 1.5mm size.

My daughter started making jewelry and this is perfect for her earrings!

Absolutely LOVE this thing! It does exactly what it’s supposed to do and made my projects absolutely fly by. No more hand twisting. Totally recommend especially if you’re an avid earring maker. For bigger loops, size up. Snips off extra wire too as it’s looping so it makes it that much more convenient.