How to Make an Ocarina Necklace
Create your own whimsical necklace using an ocarina and your choice of necklace strand. Ocarinas are small wind instruments with a flute-like sound that are typically made from glazed ceramic, but you can also find glass, plastic, wood and metal ocarinas. To make an ocarina necklace, find a six-hole pendant ocarina in the desired color from local music stores and online retailers. Many six-hole designs have one hole drilled in the tip of the instrument, opposite from the mouthpiece. These pendant-style ocarinas are the preferred choice for making an ocarina necklace.
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Things You'll Need
- Leather cord
- Scissors
- Jeweler's glue
- 2 spring coil ends
- Flat-head pliers
- 3 jump rings
- Pendant ocarina
- Necklace clasp
Instructions
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Cut a length of leather beading cord 1 inch shorter than the desired length of the ocarina necklace. Dip one end of the leather strip into liquid jeweler's glue. Fit one coil end over the glued end. Press the end of the metal coil into the leather using flat-head jewelry pliers.
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Open one jump ring. Slip the ring through the hole on the pendant ocarina that is opposite the mouthpiece. Close the jump ring. Slide the ring over the open end of the leather strip.
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Cover the open end of the leather strip with jeweler's glue. Fit and secure the remaining spring coil end onto the glued area of the leather. Wait two hours for the glue to dry.
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Open two jump rings. Use the jump rings to attach one section of your choice of necklace clasp to each metal ring at the ends of the spring coils. Close the jump rings.
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Tips & Warnings
To attach the ocarina to an existing chain necklace, use a jump ring to connect the ocarina pendant to a link in the center of the chain.
Make a necklace with multiple pendant ocarinas using this same method. Work from the center of the chain links out to evenly space the ocarina pendants on the necklace chain.
Open jump rings by simultaneously pushing and pulling the wire on each side of the split. If you separate the jump ring wire by pulling it in opposite directions, you will weaken the wire.
