Having some left over tubing from coring the bottle caps, I decided to use them to make some tube beads.
I wrapped the tubing with hammered copper wire. I wanted the balls on the ends to be silver colored and in the process got solder all over the place. It doesn’t show up as much in person. I have another idea of how to do it and maybe it will be a little cleaner. My soldering skills don’t help.
I got these done. I’m working on them in an assembly line fashion so I have a bunch of the bottle caps domed and ready to be riveted together. Just have to get more copper pieces made.
Still not sure what I’m going to do with them.
I took a class this weekend and made this bracelet. The class was taught by Carl Stanley. Here’s two different views:
It’s made out of fine silver and sterling silver. The metal is actually crushed so everyone’s turned out differently. I really scrunched mine as I didn’t want it to be too wide. I darkened the silver but I’m not sure if I like it. It looks more bulky as the pleats show up more. I’m going to leave it and wear it and see if it grows on me. If not, I’ll take the blackening off and make it a matte finish.
I made a bunch of copper bead sticks a while ago along with the beads and am just getting around to assembling them. Here’s a few more.
The one on the left is made with 8 gauge copper wire and the right one is made with 6 gauge copper wire.
I bought these glue in bails and end caps and decided to give them a try. While I like the pearls and dangles on other ones, this one is really simple. It’s a lot easier to put together too.
This is one of the same cored and capped beads that I showed in a previous post. I made it up into a bead stick pendant.
It’s mostly copper with copper ball chain and sterling silver bead caps. I might have to make a few more of these.
Well, here’s another viking knit brangle made out of copper this time. These are fairly quick to make – after I get the beads made. I’m not sure if I’m going to blacken this one. It kind of looks good without darkening the copper.
Has anyone noticed that I can never make just one thing at a time? Guess I’ve moved on to bracelets. Last month it was hair sticks. Anyhoo, this is another brass viking knit brangle. This one has some beads added on the same wire as the viking knit. It’s a bit chunkier.
What’s a brangle? It’s a bangle/bracelet. Bangles are usually one piece. I made this using two pieces. They seem to fit a variety of wrists better than bangles do. I made the viking knit part out of brass, along with using brass wire and beads. I used some of the beads that I made in a previous post.
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