DIY Gradient Wooden Tasting Spoon Pendant Gentle – Half 3 — Prepping The Spoon Bowls (This Is The Thrilling Half!)

I estimated that this pendant gentle would require about 1200 spoons, so I began this challenge a couple of weeks in the past by chopping the handles off of the spoon bowls utilizing wire snips. After which a couple of days in the past, I spent a day and night sanding all the spoon bowls to spherical off the reduce. Right here’s what they seemed like earlier than, with a straight reduce edge…

And right here’s what they seemed like after I sanded them.

Since I don’t have a bench sander, I simply used my little handheld rotary sander, and used my knees to carry it the other way up. After a number of hours of that, my legs felt numb, however I obtained all the spoons sanded.

After that, I wanted to prime all 1200 spoon bowls. I began out priming them one by one with a bit craft brush, however realized in a short time how insane that plan was. So as a substitute, I positioned them flat on a piece floor outdoors and sprayed them.

This was a fairly irritating course of as a result of they’re very gentle weight, and each from time to time, the drive of the spray would ship them flying. However even with that frustration, it was a lot sooner and simpler than portray each individually with primer.

So by the point I set to work on these yesterday, all the spoon bowls had been reduce, rounded, and primed. I began my work yesterday by grouping the spoon bowls into 15 piles, one for every of the 15 colours that I plan to make use of, after which labored on one pile, one shade, at a time. I began by giving every spoon a fast sanding by hand to clean out any tough end from the spray primer.

After which utilizing a small craft brush, I painted the backs of the spoons with liquid gold gilding.

This was a two-part course of as a result of I needed to maintain the tip whereas portray many of the again, then let it dry, after which paint the tip that I had been holding on the primary go ’spherical. However this was the enjoyable half. I may sit and paint spoon bowls whereas listening to podcasts all day daily. 😀

After the backs have been dry (and gold gilding dries very quick), I flipped them over and portray the entrance of the spoon bowls utilizing the paints that I combined in Half 2 of this challenge. Every spoon required two coats of paint to get the complete shade. And people tiny little cups of paint that I combined have been loads of paint for 2 coats even for the highest, largest rings of the sunshine that may maintain essentially the most spoon bowls.

After the paint was dry, I used the tiny brush and the liquid gold gilding once more to color across the edges to “body” the colourful paint. I purposefully did this in a messy, random method, similar to I did on the piece of spoon art work I made.

In any case of that, I nonetheless wanted to cowl the sides. I attempted utilizing the comb and liquid gold gilding, however it wasn’t as quick and simple as I had hoped.

So I obtained out my 18kt Gold Leafing Pen, and that was excellent for protecting these edges.

And the ultimate step was to drill the opening for the bounce ring that may maintain these colourful little jewels into the wire lampshade cage. For this, I used my Dremel and a tiny drill bit.

So I did all of these steps in an meeting line vogue, one pile, one shade, at a time. I solely obtained two colours completed, however these are the colours that required essentially the most spoons. As I am going alongside, I’ll want fewer and fewer spoons for every subsequent shade. However right here’s my pile of purple all prepped and able to be held on the wire cage. I wanted 88 of those…

And right here’s the darkish pink for the following ring. I wanted 84 of those…

After which I solely obtained one completed of the third shade in order that I may take footage of the method. 😀 However I’ll want 80 of the third shade. So I’ll proceed that course of till I’ve all 15 colours performed, with every subsequent shade requiring 4 fewer spoons than the colour earlier than it.