Making a Razor Blade Charm Bracelet

Series Summary

Do you have an idea for a beautiful necklace design? From earrings and bracelets to single stranded and elaborate multi-stranded necklaces, creating your own jewelry is fun, easy to learn, and can even be done at home. All it takes is the desire to create, the willingness to learn, and finally practicing your newly acquired craft. Making your own jewelry is a fun way to express your creative fashion talents. Whether you want to work with beads, stones, gems, metals, hemp or any other material, the basic construction methods are fairly simple. Custom handmade jewelry also makes a fine gift for birthdays or holidays. Today, Jason is making a bracelet out of telephone wire, coaxial cable, a razor blade and safety pins.

In this free video series, Jason Harris will show you how to make a wire and beaded charm bracelet from a razor blade, coaxial cable, and safety pins. You will learn how to extract the wire, sand and trim the beads, make clasps from safety pins, paint and attach a razor blade as a charm, and much more. Jason gives you step-by-step tips for making a charm bracelet from household items. It's all here.

Video Transcript

"JASON HARRIS: Hi, I'm Jason with ExpertVillage.com. And today, we're going to make a bracelet out of wires, safety pins and razorblades. Just basically things I find lying around. We're just basically going to recycle stuff that we don't have to throw away and make something useful out off. So what we will need to find is--I found a piece of phone line. We're going to extract the wire out of there. A coaxial cable that we're going to make some beads out off. We'll make like the charm or whatever out of the razorblade. We'll use the safety pins for the clasps. And other than that, you'll need a pair of needle-nose pliers, some paint, some glue and a razorblade to extract the wire out of the phone line. Probably we have to get some scissors too for the coaxial cable. It's kind of hard to cut through. So I'll show you how to make the beads and extract the wire out of the coaxial--or out of the phone line. Then we can get started on making the necklace from there."