Making jewelry with their hands out of scrap materials is very economical. And if the material at hand and more natural, and the eco-friendly. Total – triple benefits: environmentally friendly, economical and exclusive decoration
Materials and tools: coconut, jigsaw, sandpaper, paint in the tank, acrylic paint, lacquer furniture, brush.
Step 1: Select coconut
Should choose a coconut on the following criteria:
first of all pay attention to the size of a nut, as he later will have to be worn on your wrist;
the nut should be a regular shape, smooth surface, without any defects.
Step 2: Select the desired width of the band and we put two pencil circle perimeter.
Step 3: hacksaw or jigsaw make two cut severely on labels.
Step 4: delete the contents of the inner blank.
Step 5: treat an outer surface with sandpaper to obtain a smooth surface smooths cutting places.
Step 6: The cover the outer portion of the preform gold paint from the container.
Step 7: treat an outer surface with fine sandpaper. The structure has a hollow coconut-veins. After treatment, sandpaper the paint will remain only in the veins. Get a nice natural and unique pattern. Cover the outer surface of the preform acrylic lacquer.
Step 8: After drying acrylic lacquer cover furniture varnish in several layers to form a hard glossy surface.
Important! Furniture polish is quite aggressive, so if you put it in a layer of acrylic varnish, and paint directly on top, it will corrode it, and the whole picture will be erased.
I specifically did not varnish the inner surface of the bracelet. That, in addition to the beautiful natural pattern from the bracelet, was still and pleasant coconut flavor.
