Steampunk mechanical monocle

Step 7 Attaching the strap

The strap should be already attached to the monocle, but only to one side.

Wear your monocle, then wrap the strap around your head, reaching the monocle again. Using a mirror, find the best place to attach the free end, then mark the position on both the strap and the structure. Cut 4-5 cm more than your sign, then bend and glue 5 mm at the end (like the seam and the strap's other end). Insert the metal ring from the purse, fold and glue the strap (2 cm will be enough). It's better to have a too long piece of strap than one too short.

Cut through the structure and insert both hangers in place, then glue them in place.

Now the difficult part of this step: take an appropriate length of copper wire (at least 10 time the length of the ring) and create a hook at one end. The hook should be wide enough to comfortably hold the hangers. Insert the wire in the strap's metal ring, then start bending. Wrap the wire around the metal bars as tight as you can: there's no need to provide any degree of liberty.

Once completed the coil, cut the remaining wire. If your wire is too short, I'm sorry, but you need to restart with a longer wire. I told you: better long than short (without any sexual references, naughty boy).

Comments

[Sjninja]

To get a smoother ring out of the copper, you should try to use rounded needle nose pliers or bend the wire around a pen or marker of the size you need for a some thing like a small spring. Which you could then work it on to your rings.