https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/slave-bracelet-from-a-vintage-earring • Posted by Caroline
This fun slave bracelet uses a vintage crystal clip-on earring as the focal point. Dig around in your collection of vintage jewelery to find the perfect one.
This fun slave bracelet uses a vintage crystal clip-on earring as the focal point. Dig around in your collection of vintage jewelery to find the perfect one.
Start by removing the back clip-on part. It requires a bit of wiggling and pulling.
Use your pliers to flatten the two prongs (I don't know what to call them? The things with the holes) that the back clip-on part was attached to.
Now flatten the whole part against the earring. My earring was soft enough to bend with my fingers.
Using a jump ring, attach the lobster clasp to one of the prongs on the back of the earring. Attach a jump ring to the end of the chain, hook it to the clasp like you would a regular bracelet. This looks really weird, but don't worry you'll change it later, its just for measurement purposes. *(NOTE)* When making any kind of bracelet, you always want to take the clasp into account or you could end up with a bracelet that is too big.
Place the earring where you want it to rest on your hand. Wrap the chain around your wrist to meet the other prong. *(NOTE)* Tape can help with this step (especially when you're trying to take pictures at the same time). Cut the chain to the measured length.
Remove the clasp from the earring, fold the chain in half and cut into two equal parts.
Attach the clasp to the other part of the chain you just cut, so that it is in the middle of the two small chains.
Take one end of the chain and attach it to one of the earring prongs using a jump ring.
Attach the other end of the chain to the other prong. It should now look like a really big bracelet.
Attach the two jump rings (the ones that attach the chain to the earring) together with another jump ring.
Attach a second piece of chain to the third jump ring.
Put the bracelet on. Take the chain you just attached and wrap it around your middle finger measure and cut the chain. *(NOTE)* After finishing the bracelet I realized that measuring the finger chain with a flat hand made it kind of tight and it was hard to tighten my hand into a fist. This could be easily fixed my measuring the finger chain slightly bigger. After making my own I fixed this problem by adding an extra jump ring a the clasp.
Attach the other end of the finger chain to the third jump ring.
Ta-Da! Done!