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I usually have difficulty in making crimps grip the stringing material.  Recently, I attended a class at which the instructor told us that there are some crimp beads which have grooves scored in the inside of the crimp bead, which allows them to give a better grip to the stringing material. Do you have any information on this type of crimp beads?  The ones I used in the class were small, 2x2mm, but they worked better than any others I have at home. Thanks for any info you can give to me!

Screw-Tite Crimps™ may be what you’re looking for. You can watch an instructional video here to see if these are the same crimps your instructor used.

- Elaine