Hope!! Jewelry Tutorial: Pretty Argent Spoon Grip Pendant Necklace

I honey the patterns on onetime silverplated flatware! If I'm lucky, I tin give the sack frequently detect 1 or ii orphaned spoons or forks when I am out cruising the thrift stores or flea markets. What to practise amongst a pretty onetime spoon? How most turning it into a unique necklace pendant? Follow along too I'll present you lot how to practise exactly that!

Here are the tools too materials you lot volition need:

One vintage silverplated spoon or fork amongst a pretty handle

One 2" headpin

A few 4-6mm beads

Bench vice travelling pocket secured to a workbench or table

Jeweler's hand saw amongst blade

A metallic file

Hand drill amongst small-scale flake (about 4mm) too forest block to drill into

Two lengths of jewelry chain inwards whatever length you lot desire. I used ii 10" lengths of chain.

A lobster-claw fashion clasp

Three 6mm boundary rings

Two span of jewelry pliers (chain olfactory organ or rosary pliers piece of job well)

Jewelry side cutters

1. Choose a spoon or fork that has a pretty handle.

2. Secure the spoon or fork inwards your bench vice hence that it stays firmly inwards house spell you lot saw it. (I also stimulate got my vice clamped to my workbench hence that it does non deed around spell I am working.) Determine where you lot wishing to cut. You tin give the sack brand a grade on your spoon amongst a mark if that makes it easier for you. I exactly eyeball it too cutting a petty flake below where the mass of the pattern stops.

3. Use your jewelry saw to cutting off the destination of your spoon or fork. Hold the saw vertically too saw inwards an upward too downwardly motion. The size of saw blade isn't super of import here, equally nosotros are exactly cutting the destination off of the spoon.

4. Use your drill amongst flake too drill a hole into the destination of your spoon grip at the destination where you lot made the saw cut. I similar to drill my holes most 1/8" inwards from the end. Make certain you lot drill into a block of wood.

5. Use a metallic file to shine downwardly whatever abrupt or pointy edges from the cutting destination of your spoon handle.

6. This icon shows the chain assembly. Use 1 6mm boundary band too thread it through the hole inwards your spoon. Thread 1 destination of each of your ii lengths of jewelry chain onto the same opened upward boundary band too hence closed the boundary ring. Scroll downwardly too stimulate got a await at icon xvi if you lot practise non know how to opened upward a boundary ring.

7. This icon shows the chain assembly amongst the chain attached too boundary band closed. Now it's fourth dimension to add together some beads to our pendant to give it a petty flake of color!

8. Get out your beads! For my pendant, I used ii small-scale beads that were each most 5mm inwards size. I used a silverish bead too a turquoise bead.

9. Thread your beads onto your headpin.

10. Grip the headpin higher upward the beads too utilisation your chain olfactory organ or rosary pliers (pliers amongst a rounded end) to cast a loop inwards the caput pivot higher upward the beads.

11. Thread the destination of the caput pivot through the boundary band that you lot used to attach the chain to your spoon pendant.

12. Use 1 span of your pliers to tally the caput pivot at the loop that you lot exactly created. Use your minute span of pliers inwards your other paw to travelling pocket the tail destination of the caput pivot wire. Wrap the caput pivot wire around the "neck" of the caput pivot betwixt the beads too the loop.

13. Continue to roll the tail destination of the caput pivot wire until you lot run out of room on the neck. Twice is unremarkably sufficient.

14. Use your side cutter pliers to cutting the remaining tail destination of wire from the caput pin. Use your chain olfactory organ pliers to tuck inwards whatever pointy destination of wire into the previous wire wraps.

15. This icon shows the assembly for the clasp. Chain end, boundary ring, clasp, boundary ring, too other chain end. Open the boundary rings (see measuring xvi below) too thread on the chain ends too clasp inwards the lodge equally shown inwards the photograph too hence closed the boundary rings.

16. The right means to opened upward a boundary band is to utilisation ii span of pliers

(I had to stimulate got the photograph amongst 1 paw hence my icon exclusively shows one!) Hold the boundary band seam-side up. Grip the boundary band amongst 1 span of pliers on each side of the seam too utilisation a twisting motion, turning the pliers reverse directions of each other to opened upward the boundary band at its seam. Close the boundary band past times using the same motion, bringing the destination of the boundary band dorsum together.