Upcycled Motherboard Jewelry Amongst High Gloss Resin!
Sunday, June 29, 2014
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Upcycled Motherboard Jewelry amongst High Gloss Resin!
Make a geek chic laid of jewelry for Back-to-School! Everyone loves to teach to a greater extent than or less novel clothes, shoes together with backpacks when it's fourth dimension to caput dorsum to school...but what close to a greater extent than or less geek inspired wearables! Make an upcycled motherboard pendant together with earring laid to wearable or plough over every bit a gift to to a greater extent than or less other totally geek chic person! If y'all accept to a greater extent than or less former computers or electronic parts laying around, this is a perfect craft!SUPPLIES NEEDED: (aff links)
Motherboard or other electronic parts Heavy Duty Scissors Envirotex Lite Pour-On High Gloss Resin Disposable operate surface, gloves, mixing cups together with stirring sticks E6000 Glue Jewelry Hardware (bails together with chain) Painters TapeBegin past times using to a greater extent than or less rigid pair of scissors to cutting the motherboard pieces into lilliputian squares. Cut at to the lowest degree three pieces inwards the desired shapes.
Place painters record on the backside of the estimator slice together with record it gently on a operate surface. The record elevates the slice together with lifts it slightly off the operate surface, which is of import when doing the resin.
Read the directions for the Envirotex Lite Pour-on High Gloss Finish. It comes inwards ii bottles, 1 resin together with 1 hardener. When they are mixed properly they brand a clear, super shiny finish.
Mix 1 job of the resin together with 1 job of the hardener according to the parcel directions. Mix for ii minutes, together with then pour into a 2d loving cup together with stir for 1 to a greater extent than infinitesimal amongst a novel stirring stick. For these five pieces I solely needed close a 1/2 ounce total. Then pour the resin on the surface of the upcycled motherboard pieces. The resin has amazing surface tension thence quite a flake tin teach on exceed without spilling off. Let the resin dry out together with cure overnight.
The side past times side twenty-four hours they are laid to attach to jewelry. The raised resin is shiny together with smooth.
Next move out the jewelry hardware; earring hooks, chains, jump-rings, together with bails.
The bails ask to move attached to the backside of the motherboard pieces amongst E6000 glue.
Then allow the gum dry out for at to the lowest degree 4 hours, I allow them sit down overnight merely to move safe.
Add chain together with earring hooks to the bails on the earrings.
Then add together a chain for the pendant necklace. They are thence pretty! I dearest dark-green together with gilded together!!!
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