Peyote Watchband Questions

Im thinking outloud here.. bear with me and if this sounds reasonable, doable, let me know please. DIL is not able to have most metals touch her, that includes metal watch backs and bands, so she buys ones with plastic bands. Nice, but not for fancy dinners out, etc. Ever since I met her Ive wanted to create a special watch band that would avoid this issue beautifully. Here is what I came up with. I would create a rectangle of peyote exactly the width of the openings at the ends of the watch (the face would be the kind with a spring post at each end. I would slide the watch onto the band, having the beads go under the face. Then I continue weaving along both sides of the band, working around that area where the band goes around the post things. Will this work from a technical point, meaning, can peyote be worked from both edges? Will it cover the metal completely? The ends of the part where the springy posts fit in... thats the one part that bugs me. For a clasp, a loop of seeds on one end, and a nice button on the other.. perhaps polyclay? Polyclay that has beads on it? :-) I havent ever done any bead weaving before, but I think this is going to be fun!!

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Diana Curtis
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How about putting a watch face/head into a peyote stitched bezel?..the back could be suedecloth or leather, ...then you could bead the strap off of it!

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

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LC aka Fiddy

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Diana Curtis" :

]I would create a rectangle of peyote exactly the width of the openings at ]the ends of the watch (the face would be the kind with a spring post at each ]end. I would slide the watch onto the band, having the beads go under the ]face. Then I continue weaving along both sides of the band, working around ]that area where the band goes around the post things. Will this work from a ]technical point, meaning, can peyote be worked from both edges?

i tried something like this a couple of times. and then it dawned on me that i had just made it impossible for the wearer to change the batteries.

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vj

ACK!!!!! NOOOOO... oh .. you saved me from a HUGE mistake. Thank you. Going to consider Ms Fiddys suggestion. Thank you! Diana

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Diana Curtis

Do you know of a lesson for something like that? Similar would work. I like this idea better than not being able to change the batterys. :-) Diana

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Diana Curtis

Ah. the battery. Hm.

Ok, then what I'd do is make a bezel on a hunk of suedecloth or leather and leave a flap on the back that you can lift and access the battery. like a trapdoor!

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

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LC aka Fiddy

Does anyone still make the kind of watch one winds? That would eliminate that problem, and since it would be for special occasions it wouldnt be a hardship to wind. Diana

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Diana Curtis

One of the teachers at my LBS teaches the peyote watch band.....

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I am not sure what it on the back of the watch face, but you can adhere some suede so that the back can still be removed to change the battery.

Janet R

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Janet R

OH! oh!...

how's 'bout a band that that you slip under the watch head "pin", covering the back with the leather, and then back up through the other "pin". Remember those enourmous watches we used to wear in the 60's and 70's where the watch head was snapped onto this monstrosity of a band?...like a big ole biker band, sorta...

maybe that on a more delicate scale??

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

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LC aka Fiddy

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Diana Curtis" :

]ACK!!!!! NOOOOO... oh .. you saved me from a HUGE mistake. Thank you. Going ]to consider Ms Fiddys suggestion. ]Thank you!

any time. i generally learn by trying all the wrong ways first.

maybe you could build around the watch face, like they do for cabs?

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vj

I don't know if they still make such things, but someone I once knew had a self-winding watching. The general movement of the arm trips a mechnanism inside the watch which winds it. If for some reason he didn't wear it for a while, he'd put it on and rock his arm back and forth and it would wind. It was an old watch, but it worked a treat. You could search ebay or an estate jeweler.

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Marisa Cappetta

That is something I was trying to picture in my mind too. How to do that tho? I believe it Can be done, just not by me at this moment. :-) Beginner's luck only stretches so far. Im going to consider the watchband idea a bit longer, lets see what ferments. Thanks everyone! Diana

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Diana Curtis

You could attach some #8s to the top of a peyote band that the pins could go through to hold the watch. Obvious the number of 8s would depend on the width of the watch face. This would be easier if the watch design is one where the pins are out to the top and bottom of the face not close in to it. This would make it possible to change watchfaces as long as the face design was similar. Also fairly easy to change batteries. Yes, they still make self winding watches. If you "google" watch faces you will probably be overwhelmed by how many places have so many styles and types of mechanisms. Just searching ebay might overload your creative processes. Also, today many watch batteries last up to 10 years. As a last resort you could cut a piece of clear packing tape to the size and shape of the watch back to prevent contact with the skin and be able to make a simpler band design. Just peel it off to change batteries. Almost all new watches come with a sticky plastic protective cover on the back. Have fun trying all the suggestions. Armand

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Armand Vine

Thank you, Armand, for some interesting ideas to consider. DIL may just have to wait another year for an elegant evening watch. :-) Diana

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Diana Curtis

Not sure this sent the first time....if its a ditto I apologize Janet

"One of the teachers at my LBS teaches the peyote watch band..... |

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| | I am not sure what it on the back of the watch face, but you can | adhere some suede so that the back can still be removed to change the | battery. | | Janet R

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Janet R

here's a link to the pattern:

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The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

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LC aka Fiddy

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Armand Vine" :

]You could attach some #8s to the top of a peyote band that the pins could go ]through to hold the watch.

be aware - not all pins will go through size 8 delicas. been there, tried that! it IS the best solution, but i didn't realize until i started trying it that all watch pins are NOT the same diameter! it seems to be totally dependent on the watch face how big the pins are.

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vj

Thank you Janet and LC... You all are giving me great options to ponder. Somehow I will pull all these ideas together into a working watchband for the metal sensitive. :-) Diana

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Diana Curtis

You can get watch pins of different diameters in the same length. So you could use thinner pins than those that come with the watch if need be.

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Armand Vine

My DH has one of those, it is an Omega. I too have an ordinary wind up Omega. We bought them in Malta 48 years ago, just before we came back to UK. Both are still working but now not used. Shirley

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Shirley Shone

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