Okay so the bracelet cord self untied quickly so I'm going back to my previous approach of tying off both ends of the bracelet cord with a fishing crimp sleeve.



While trying to cut in half fishing crimp sleeves with my mini miter saw I noticed it was a difficult process and not ideal. So I came up with a easier method which was way faster, cleaner, less setup and takedown, no deburring needed, etc!



The method is to lay the fishing crimp sleeve on a flat surface and line up a exacto knife blade perpendicular to it across its top and then apply moderate downward pressure to score the metal and then slide the knife carefully back and forth creating a perfect scoring line that grows deeper with each pass. After several passes the fishing crimp sleeve halves separate cleanly! This method uses a similar principle to a copper pipe cutter used in plumbing.