{"id":61,"date":"2008-09-18T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsjewelry.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2008\/09\/18\/how-to-make-a-resin-jewelry-bracelet-master\/"},"modified":"2008-09-18T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T15:08:00","slug":"how-to-make-a-resin-jewelry-bracelet-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/how-to-make-a-resin-jewelry-bracelet-master\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a Resin Jewelry Bracelet Master"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt none;margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_UjTbML5h3Zw\/SNJz4mHQacI\/AAAAAAAAAIc\/0hHoRAWFrQU\/s400\/081326-3inBracelet-3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Resin Jewelry Bangle Bracelet Master\" width=\"400\" height=\"241\" \/><br \/>\nThought I&#8217;d take some photos to show how I&#8217;m progressing on the new 3&#8243; inside diameter, resin jewelry bangle bracelet design. I have had requests for my bracelets in a larger 3 inch size. Making the masters for molding is the most tedious and time consuming part of the whole design process. With my 2-1\/2 &#8221; bangle bracelet design, I used polymer clay to make the master. Much prettier to look at, but, took forever to get the shape and size right.<\/p>\n<p>This time I decided try something simpler. I discovered that 3&#8243; PVC pipe, used in plumbing has a perfect 3&#8243; inside diameter. But the wall thickness was too thin for my design, only about 1\/4 inch thick. So, Tom suggested using a 3 inch, schedule 80, PVC pipe coupling.  These are not available at the hardware stores, but must be purchased from a plumbing supply house. They are made to fit over the outside of the 3 inch PVC pipe, so the fit was perfect. The schedule 80 pipe coupling looked huge, and was about 4 inches long. Too long for a bracelet, but it was easy enough to cut off the excess on the chop saw.<\/p>\n<p>I now had a good starting point for my new bracelet master. The total wall thickness of the combined pipe and coupling is .560 inches, or 9\/16&#8243;. The photo above shows the left over piece that was cut off from the combined pipe and coupling. The 3&#8243; PVC pipe is white, and the schedule 80 pipe coupling is dark gray. But you can see how well the two pieces fit together, and the combined wall thickness.<\/p>\n<p>Next comes the shaping and sanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought I&#8217;d take some photos to show how I&#8217;m progressing on the new 3&#8243; inside diameter, resin jewelry bangle bracelet design. I have had requests for my bracelets in a larger 3 inch size. Making the masters for molding is the most tedious and time consuming part of the whole design process. With my 2-1\/2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/nsjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}