rosary making question

[He is Risen!]

I have a rosary that a friend made me that I love to use but it constantly falls apart, like several times during one use (I'm no good at making these so I usually stick to making knotted rosaries) and I'd like to rebuild it as a wire wrap rosary to be sturdier.   The holes in the beads are too small to put string through so I think wire is the answer.  I've tried to make a wire wrap rosary before but it was huge!  I could nearly jump rope with it it was so long, how do I make one of these so it's not gigantic?

[SaintOfVirtue]

I'm not sure what you mean by "wire wrap" but maybe just use smaller round nose pliers. 

Edited March 3, 2017 by SaintOfVirtue

[CatherineM]

I only knot mine. Get a bead drill and make the holes bigger. 

[KnightofChrist]

A wirecutter, needle nose pliers as SoV suggested, even two normal pliers can be used to bend the wire back and forth until it breaks. It works but isn't very precise.

I've used high pound fishing line before never had uses with it breaking.