Problem with adding beads to jump rings

[doloresk5513]

I am pretty new at chainmailling and I have developed a problem I can't seem to solve. Wondering if some great people here can give me some help with a solution. I am working on a chainmaille bracelet on which I am adding some beads to fancy it up a bit. Here is the problem: I have made other bracelets in this pattern using seed beads. This time I am trying to use a mix of seed beads and bicone beads--one bead of each to each jump ring. The bicone beads, while small, do not want to go on the jump ring and by the time I get the bead on, the jump ring is distorted and is not the perfect circle that I started with. what am I doing wrong? Is it just not possible to use bicone beads with jump rings? Please offer some suggestions as quickly as possible as I have a few shows coming up and I would like to have them made for sale. Thanks so much for the help.

Dee, Creations by Dee

 

[Phoenix]

Nothing wrong, but..... Your bicone bead will have been drilled in a straight line, and you're trying to insert a curved wire. This is also true for your seeds, but they are so small it makes no difference, with the larger bicone, the longer straight channel through the bead prevents the curved ring going through, unless as you noticed, you kinda trash the ring.

 

[Erika M Doss]

I have never had a bicone fit on a jumpring. I either put it on a head pin or eye pin, or I capture it inside jump rings. I don't think I've ever seen a bicone that has a big enough hole for a jump ring. Like the other person said, the hole is straight, the ring is not. Seed beads generally have a larger hole than bicones.