DIY Gradient Wooden Tasting Spoon Pendant Mild – Half 1

This gradient wood tasting spoon pinwheel that hangs in our front room is my favourite piece of artwork that I’ve ever made. I really like every part about it, from the dimensions of the wooden tasting spoons, to the colours, to the gold accents. So when she prompt turning this concept right into a pendant mild for my studio, I used to be on board with that concept instantly.

I’ve been engaged on getting the spoons ready for a few weeks now. It has been very time consuming, and I’m solely about 1/3 of the best way completed with prepping the spoons. I made up my mind that I’ll want about 1000 spoons for the sunshine, which implies that I needed to lower the handles off of 1000 wooden spoons on the neck, after which sand the remaining bowls to spherical off each bit. As soon as I get all of these sanded, I can begin priming and portray the spoon bowls.

However yesterday, I made a decision to work on the opposite a part of the pendant mild, which is the precise body that the spoon bowls will finally be hooked up to. In an effort to make the body, I bought one 22-inch lamp shade wire that has the body that attaches to the sunshine/lamp (i.e., the highest lamp shade ring). (Sorry, however I don’t know the technical phrases for these components, and I can’t discover my bill from the place the place I bought these.) Utilizing a make-your-own-pendant-light equipment from Lowe’s, I hooked up the 22-inch lamp shade wire to the sunshine equipment after which put in the sunshine.

Right here’s a take a look at it from the highest. Please excuse all the mess within the background. 😀

Along with that high ring, I additionally bought 19 further backside lamp shade rings from 21″ to three″, and each whole-inch dimension in between. I wasn’t certain what number of I’d find yourself utilizing, however my pinwheel paintings has 20 rows of spoons, so I purchased 20 rings in complete.

After contemplating a number of completely different choices for connecting the rings to one another, I lastly determined that this is able to be the proper alternative to place my newly acquired jewelry-making expertise to work on a non-jewelry undertaking. So I bought some beading wire…

After which I bought these screw-tite crimp beads. After I make necklaces, I’ve give up utilizing precise crimp beads as a result of I had a necklace fail and are available aside whereas I used to be sporting it. When that occurred, I went searching for a greater solution to safe beads on beading wire, and I discovered these screw-tite crimp beads. Every bead has a tiny little screw on the aspect that tightens onto the beading wire to safe it. That is what I exploit on my necklaces now, so I bought a bundle to make use of on my pendant mild.

It’s so tiny that I had a really tough time getting my digital camera to concentrate on the precise screwdriver.

Anyway, you possibly can see how tiny it’s. It’s like a kind of small screwdrivers you’ll use to tighten screws on a pair of glasses.

And to chop the beading wire, I used my little jewelry-making wire cutters.

I lower items of the beading wire to three inches lengthy…

After which I bent the items of wire in half.

I wrapped the bent wire round two lampshade rings, put the ends of the wire by way of a crimp bead, after which tightened the screw on the crimp bead. I used 4 items of wire to safe every lampshade ring to the earlier ring.

I continued that course of till I had 12 rings hooked up, with every ring hooked up to the earlier ring utilizing 4 items of wire and 4 crimp beads.

You’ll be able to see within the picture under how I staggered the wires with each different ring.

I finished at 12 rings, however I could add three extra for a complete of 15 rings. After which as soon as I get all the spoon bowls sanded, primed, and painted, I’ll drill a gap on every bowl and fix every one to the pendant mild type utilizing 10mm leap rings.