Clothespin Bracelet

In this Instructable, I will be showing you how to make your own bracelet out of ordinary wooden clothespins!

.::WARNING::.

Making this bracelet may lead to a strong and sudden feeling of uniqueness and individuality, sometimes even joy. Please do not stop reading now if you are a conformist. Consider yourself warned!

Step 1 What You'll Need

Items and Tools

1) Clothespins
- You can get 50 of these for $1 at the dollar store.
- The number of clothespins you need depends on the size of your wrist.
- I needed 11 but I have an pretty small wrist

2) Your Hands
- If you don't have these please get a capable individual to make you one.

Comments

[CouldWouldDid]

Thanks, man! Very original :)

[hammer9876]

Cool. Inexpensive. Clear instructions.

Silly me, though. I thought this would be a how to make a bracelet out of the wooden part of the clothespins. :-)

Any thoughts about what to do with all the left over wooden parts (besides burning them) to keep them out of the landfills?

[zoxx]

I like. And with slight modifications would make a keen belt.

[CrimsonChain]

Cool idea, I was actually playing with one last night and was wondering if there was something I could do with it. Oh yeah and with the sharpie and white out it won't work that well. The sharpie will rub off onto your wrist and the white out will eventually chip off. There is not much that I can think of off hand that you can do to the kind of steel that I think the springs are made of. It they were stainless steel you could use a torch or even a simple lighter to heat color the metal. But galvanized steel (what I think the springs are made of) that wont work and will release a toxic gas from the zinc coating.

[muberblob]

use nail polish (lil sis's idea).

[cupojoe999]

spray paint? thats one of my answers to every thing (along with duct tape, WD-40 ) i would almost bet that there is a spray paint that can stick to the springs. you would just have to set them on paper and spray one side of them, flip them when dry and spray the other side, then repeat till the desired number of coats is applied.

[WickedFabala]

nail polish worked well on my pop tab bracelet if anyone wanted other colors on this bracelet it should work

[Short One]

You could slide beads on as you link them together too.

[Crakamiester93]

Yeuh, that's a pretty good idea!

[Slackerstephen44]

very cool. i made it as soon as i read this. its on my wrist right now. thanks so much

[Crakamiester93]

You're welcome! :)

[ghostrider2]

is your name brandon fortin?

[Crakamiester93]

Nope. Zach Birney!

[l0rd0fnerds]

i had one of those things three years ago but i lost it somewhere

[powerboy]

This is a great one. I will try it now. The other day, I was hanging clothes and got to thinking if there was anything I could make out of clothes pens

[cardinalcranberry]

Hm. You might could use nail polish to customize it. Nail polish sticks to friggin everything. I totally want to make one!

[maharg20]

Hello lololol

[maharg20]

Nice instructable! (:P

[Bexie]

Sweet! lol Now i just need to figure out what to do with the rest of the closepins...

[Ian01]

I'd be careful with that white-out. It can flake off and get stuck all over your wrist, even after it dries. I got it all over the inside of my binder a couple of years ago, trying to glue my ruler back together. :(

[Crakamiester93]

I'm glad you guys like it! Thanks! 8P

[pyro13]

dude... this would make one sick belt!

[Kiteman]

My thought also.

_{But without the sick part.}

[threecheersfornick]

Your sure it couldn't make two belts?

I just had to...

[threecheersfornick]

Damn, why didn't my superscript work?

[okoshima]

been doing this years... still got the first one i made and made a fair amount a cash selling these... already had belts and chokers but belts get a good twist in them... nice instuctable

[bumpus]

Ahh, Someone beat me to it.
Pretty good instructable.
3.5/5 stars.

_{I'm wearing mine now :P}