Hi everyone! My name is Colleen and I'm new to the design team! I'm excited to get know everyone and share some of my projects. I've got a lot of scrap wood and I thought I'd try making jewelry from some of it!
Here's a list of tools and supplies I used for my bracelet.
- Proxxon MICRO Bandsaw
- Proxxon Bench Drill Press
- Proxxon Disc Sander
- Scrap Hardwood
- Wood Stain (Varathane Golden Oak)
- 10 8mm black beads
- Elastic cord
Starting with a piece of scrap poplar that's 2 1/2" x 1 3/4" x 3 1/2"
I marked off every 1/2" and drew my cutting lines. I then came down a 1/2" and marked off where I needed to drill the holes for my elastic cord.
Using the Proxxon Bench Drill Press and an 1/8'drill bit , I drilled 12 holes. One one each side of the soon to be slices.
Using the Proxxon Micro Bandsaw I then sliced my bloc apart into 6 slices.
Each slice now has the holes in them for the elastic cord.
I decided that in order for the bracelet to lay nicer on my wrist that I needed to miter cut the edges of the longer sides. I set the band saw table at a 25 degree angle and trimmed each piece.
You can see from this picture that by cutting those edges at an angle, it's going to fit together nicely.
I wanted the corners of each slice to be rounded so I free handed a little curve and sanded them off using the Proxxon Disc Sander.
All of my pieces are now sanded! I laid them out next to one of my bracelets and realized I only needed 5 slices. I'll save the extra one for a necklace!
I then ran the elastic cord through the holes and placing one of the 8mm beads in between just to see how it looked then took it back apart for staining.
I chose Varathane stain in the Golden Oak color. I stained each slice the reassembled everything. Here's my finished bracelet! Hope you enjoyed my little project!!!
1 comment:
What a neat idea. Cool project and it looks fun to make. thanks for sharing.
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