The Cuff Stuff
by: Dwyn Tomlinson
This
is a fun and simple project - it just requires a bit of patience to
glue the ends on. I made it with a scrap of leather from my stash - in a
colour that is, of course, now sold out. The key is to use one of the
leathers with a hollow core down the centre. I used the mini-regaliz -
but you could use the full size, or even two pieces of the 5 mm hollow.
First,
as always with any project that requires gluing - dry fit the ends of
the leather into the crystal ends to make sure they fit.
Cut
a piece of heavy wire and slide it into the hollow core, and trim to
match the length of the leather precisely. This bracelet looks good as a
side-pass or with just the ends meeting like a cuff - so it is flexible
as to how much leather (and wire) you need. Minimum would be 6 inches,
but more is good too. This is especially good if you have just a random
piece hanging around like I did.
It
would probably be easier to keep the wire flat and glue one end on -
let the glue dry - and then glue the other end, and then bend the wire
to shape. But I never do things the easy way - I bent the wire first,
and then had to figure out how to keep the whole bracelet propped
upright so that the glue would set without leaking down onto the
leather. I did this by putting it with the ends oriented downward onto
the desk, and then sticking them into a generous hunk of polymer clay so
that it could sit there and set up overnight.
Components
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