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Shotgun Shell Jewelry

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Jewelry with a bang! Shotgun shells made into a necklace, bracelet and rings

Fire in the hole! is what you say before firing a gun or detonating explosives on a set. Well, that was all that was running though my mind when I was hacking up these shotgun shells to make this jewelry!

I just love recycling and upcycling!

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  1. Step 1

    Step 1

    All I did was cut off the plastic part (I will be sure to post what I make with that soon!) and sanded the remaining bit of plastic flush with the metal edge. I then glued ring blanks to the back for the rings. For the bracelet I taped the bracelet blank to the table first so I was sure to get all the casings aligned, I find it a bit easier to do it this way when gluing multiple items to one project. It also helped keep the glue off the spacer sections.

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Cat Morley

Cat Morley

10 Sep 23:18

Those look awesome, I have a bag with bullets for part of the strap and I love it to bits.

RenJac1301

RenJac1301

10 Sep 23:26

LOL great idea, We hunt and we have shells lol

Knittin' Kitten

Knittin' Kitten

11 Sep 18:23

I made take all my dads bullets just to piss him off and make jewellery out of them

beryl

beryl

14 Sep 04:27

Oh my god! I love it !

Lacy R.

Lacy R.

21 Sep 03:51

In love!

Ulrike W.

Ulrike W.

12 Feb 17:45

i love it! very cool!

could you just tell me how you did the necklace?
this would be awesome!

greetings from germany
uli

PlaidCrafter

PlaidCrafter

12 Feb 17:52

I simply glued a bail on the backside. It was the kind that has a "tab" like shape below the loop. I used jewelry glue and ball chain.
Thanks for the compliment!
Stef

Ulrike W.

Ulrike W.

30 Sep 15:44

did you cut of some of the metal parts before you glued the bail? or how and where did you glued it on?

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September 10, 2008 21:32

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