Soda Tab Chain Necklace

First of all I would like to credit krazy glu with the whole concept. This is how to make a necklace with soda tabs.

Materials

Loads of soda tabs(100+ probably)
A large safety pin
Multitool

Step 1 Start Collecting

You're going to need ALOT of soda tabs. I used 94 tabs, but my neck is really small so you should probably get as many as possible. I would say 100+.

Comments

[pancho del rancho]

these wont rust or anything rite

[Takena Bako]

well they wont rust if u don't put them in water for a long period of time and do it more then once!! 

[War on 45]

Your comment leaves me perplexed.
Since aluminium cans contain water or similar liquids, you can deduce that aluminum does not rust.

[nerfer192]

well aluminum doesn't oxidize or if it does it takes alot longer than steel, so no they wont rust

[dinglballs]

yeah, thats why they make pop cans from aluminium. because they dont rust with pop inside of them. :)

[Solderguy]

Aluminum is chemically inert to natural substances. So soaking it in water for a few years, or leaving it outside in the sun will not cause any chemical or physical change to aluminum.

[pancho del rancho]

oh okay thx ill make it then

[eulaliaaaa!]

A safety pin clasp? *gasp. I would use something more along the lines of a paper clip. Less "grabby", if you know what I mean.

[War on 45]

A key-ring or lobster clasp works well too.

[MakeLifeColorful]

Oh that's a lot of soda tabs. I might do this just with two tabs instead of four. Lovely idea all the same!

[War on 45]

Well, two tabs might not be too strong, but since this is a piece of jewelry, I say go for it.

[J@50n]

not to be "smart" or anything but you have exactally 128 pop tops and 1 safty pin :)

[War on 45]

No.
He has 92 stay-on-tabs and one safety pin.

Great job counting!

[War on 45]

I found many pull-tabs by checking the tops of canned foods. This included cat and dog food cans. But they're all different sizes. I usually drink bottles, and the amount of pop I consume is relatively low.

[hollowthekiller]

i HAVE +300 so i could atleast make 3

[joelr97]

nice instructable heres a pic of mine (mines a bracelet)

[baneat]

The dificulty is collecting the tabs, I knew someone who spent ages collecting and she finally had enough for her project :) I bet you can buy the tabs on their own, though.

[paqrat]

Having read a couple of instructables on making chain mail out of pop tabs I started saving them too. I am not much of a beverage drinker so I soon saw I would die of old age before having enough. On my short drive to work I noticed a number of discarded aluminum cans along the road. Thankfully it wasn't long before I realized that most of those cans probably had pop tabs. They did. I got a wal mart sack and went out to gather pop tabs. I walked along the road and when I spotted a can I'd pick it up, take the tab off and put the can in my walmart sack. At the end of roughly 45 minutes I had a bulging walmart sack of aluminum cans and roughly 4 times more pop tabs than I'd been able to collect in months. From this I got excercise, cleaned up the roadside and got the pop tabs I was looking for. I suppose if I wanted to I could save enough of the cans to cash them in at a recycler's. Since we have a community recycling center I just donated the cans to them. Its a bit hot now to go out gathering but as soon as it cools off a bit I will be getting more pop tabs.

[Aphera]

I'm making one right now out of regular silver tabs and then two colored ones, it looks freaking awesome!!! Thanks for the Idea TWO THUMBS UP FOR YOU!!!!

[amakerguy]

cool heres's mine.

[rix_101]

i used a carabiner for mine too :D

[X3R0X77]

 dude awesome i want 2 thank you that this is the best instructasble ever and i am dying to make it but my dumb brother stole all of my tabs 

[Ian01]

I would probably use 3 per set to make it more flexible. Plus, fewer to collect!

[bryce$merryman]

that is what i did and i only used 94 tabs but it still looks great :)

[Under the bridge]

i made one to connect my nipple piercings, it looks great.

just shows that this can look good for all sorts of stuff.

[NIJU!]

 i made this 5 mins ago but i stoped cause i ran out of tabs :(

[Mr.Sanchez]

Dude It looks really cool on my jannis neck...thnks and keep on workn...

[Keira_Yagami]

Can you use Hot glue instead of Krazy Glue?

[Mythbuster009]

the idea went to krazy glu. You don't need crazy glue for the project.

[spenfisher12]

koolaiddisaster............WHAT!!!!!!!!!!

[RedneckAsian]

almost done with mine

[porcupinemamma]

I've seen this done with a single layer of pop tabs, but yours is WAY cooler. Nice bling!

[dr.tran]

Great Instructable. Instead of making a necklace I mad a wallet chain. In the end i used 132 tabs to make it and its about a foot and a half long.

[icedog515]

lol after seein this i made 1 outta 250 tabs, although i suppose potter's blows mine outta the water...meh. monster energy tabs are colored, i save them ^_

[naruto the ninja13]

show apic ofyourone madefrom monster tabs please

[naruto the ninja13]

srry not many spaces the bar was sticky but i fixed it

[thoraxe]

eh, you should have cut the thicker part vs the thin part, cutting the thin part seems to be too weak, as it will probably bend from pressure. I was able to support 58 lbs of weight on mine b4 i ran out of weight lol.

[KoolAidDisaster]

lol this is badass... im doing as i comment hells yeah

[senasachi]

wouldn't it break though? cuz u jus bended it bac so if there is alot of pressure wouldn't it fall apart?

[Mr_Roboto94]

For it to break all 4 tabs in one of the links would have to break. Also this is meant more to be a piece of jewelry not a substitute for an actual chain.