High Gloss Resin Coconut Shell Necklace DIY
Make a high gloss resin kokosnoot trounce necklace for a natural together with tropical look. Turn ordinary pieces of kokosnoot shells into glossy together with stunning jewelry. These necklaces experience tropical together with exotic because of their natural nature. This is a fun arts and crafts for Summer camps (now that they are all over, right?) or merely because!
Supplies Needed:
Coconut Shell
High Gloss Resin Twine
Wooden Beads
Mixing Cups, Stirring Sticks, Disposable operate surface together with gloves
Begin past times breaking the kokosnoot into pieces. I enlisted my married adult man to help me amongst this part. He took a stone from the garden together with whacked it correct on overstep past times the three dots.
And merely similar that it cracked downwardly the middle together with he pulled it apart. Then he broke the trounce into smaller pieces amongst the rock.
Then I picked a few pieces I liked together with picked off the meat. I ate it too. Do y'all similar fresh coconut?
Then I gave the pieces dorsum to my married adult man together with asked him sweetly to sand them smooth.
He sanded the tops together with sides together with back. I honey how the smaller slice looks similar a gem. Speaking of gems, my married adult man is amazing! He's medically retired from the military, together with then nosotros hang out every day. Every 24-hour interval is similar Sabbatum for us...except Sunday.
Next, I had him drill holes inwards the tops of each piece.
Then I promptly took them within to add together some high gloss resin to them. This pour-on resin is divine together with adds similar x layers of varnish inwards 1 coating. Read the directions carefully together with mix according to directions.
I mixed upward 1 teaspoon of resin, 1/2 a teaspoon of each bottle. Then stirred for the total two minutes, transferred to a novel mixing loving cup together with mixed 1 time again for 1 total minute.
Then I used the stirring stick to laissez passer on each kokosnoot a glossy coat of resin. It's self leveling, together with then it smooths out miraculously.
Keep a straw nearby inwards instance whatsoever bubbles cast inwards the get-go twenty minutes. Just breathe through the straw around the bubble to popular it.
Let the kokosnoot shells dry out overnight for the resin to cure.
Next 24-hour interval cutting some twine together with string them on the necklace. Add wooden beads for the concluding touch!
That's it!
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