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Punk rock slap bracelet.
I’m making a few of these for Anthro New England, which I’m vending at in just over a week. This year its theme is The 90s, and after having this idea for a shitpost I was compelled to make it happen.
My workshop/bedroom is currently knee-deep in in-progress masks for that, so I’ll have a bunch of stuff to share once I get it all finished and photographed. But I just had to post this one now because I’m so happy that (after 5 prototypes) I got it to work.
I made a couple of these for Anthro New England, as a play on this year's con theme of The Nineties.
It took more effort to get the idea to work than I'd expected, but I was really happy with the result.
(For the curious: the bracelets have to be 2-layered to sandwich the metal spring core inside. It turned out the only way to make it sturdy enough was to hand-stitch it together. And since the layers have thickness to them, the inner one has to be slightly shorter than the outer one, with the stitching holes slightly compressed accordingly. That way, the natural relaxed shape of the bracelet once it's sewn together is curled up with an appropriate diameter.)
And of course they are for sale on my Etsy page!
(The Jazz design isn't on my Etsy because the last thing I made with that pattern got a takedown notice from the cup company. But if you poke me individually I can make you one.)
Leather slap bracelet! It does the thing!
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Slap stack.
I love making these punk styled slap bracelets.
To be honest, they're way nicer than this sort of joke object has a right to be--in order to get the action to work right, I need to hand-stitch the suede liner onto the top layer, with a slight length difference to force the curvature.
Previously seen on video here
Coming to a theater near you here
