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Piece of Craft: Weapon of Choice

This bullet necklace is Faith's weapon of choice. Photo by Faith Breisblatt.
This bullet necklace is Faith's weapon of choice. Photo by Faith Breisblatt.

One time, my friend’s boyfriend took me shooting. I had never held a gun before in my life, let alone shot one, so the kickback each time always took me by surprise. But being the craft-addict that I am, it didn’t even faze me that I was on my first shooting trip. No, instead what I was doing was crouching down on the ground and collecting the bullet casings, hoping I could do something cool with them. I left that day with literally boxes of bullet casings, and to this day I still have extra casings.

I stumbled upon a tutorial online for an easy way to make a bullet-casing necklace. I had tried doing it on my own for a while but I couldn’t figure out how else to make a necklace without a drill.  This method though needs no drill.

You will need: -a chain -bullet casings -a hot glue gun -screw eyes OR small jump rings (the type used in jewelry making)

The instructions for this craft are so easy, it’s almost ridiculous. All you need to do is fill your casings with glue from the hot glue gun. Then, place a screw eye or one of the jump rings inside the glue. If you’re using the jump rings make sure you don’t put the circle all the way into the glue- you want enough showing so you can string the chain through later.

Once dry, you can string your chain through each of the casings. Remember, you can use as many or as few bullet casings as you want. For the one I made, I chose to use only three, but in the tutorial I found on RunwayDIY, there are about 24 casings. You can also use bullet casings of any size.

And there you have it, a lovely weapon of choice to wear so people know you mean business!

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments at fbreisbl@asu.edu.


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