So How Cool Are Typewriter Key Bracelets?

Don't have one but couldn't you just pop the key, set in a silver bezel and link them? Another idea would be to take the keys off, file the back smooth and glue a finding to the back. Maybe one of those glue on cab bracelets?

Susan W

I like the silver bezel idea. Too bad I don't have a clue about how to do it. I'm slowly but surely accumulating the stuff I need to work with metal.

Pictures, please?

Did you see the key watches on this page?

We have a store in town that's selling some watches and jewelry made from old type keys. I wonder if it is from this guy? Hmm....guess I'll hafta go back and take a peice.....er.....take a PEEK, and see who made them!

Suedo (like "pseudo", though I'm no phony baloney!)

I think you had better! Diana

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"Dr. Sooz" <. Someday I will attend> one of his workshops, I swear! Someday.> Sooz

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was afraid I was the only one whose eyes split this URL up as stroke-o-fart...

Deirdre

Yup! I was thinking the same thing! ;-D

Suedo (like "pseudo", though I'm no phony baloney!)

Doggonit!

Cindy >going to dig the big ball of electical wire out of the trash. I've been saving it forever and just last night decided to pitch it! Because what was I going to do with electrical wire. Crikey, I can't throw nothin away.

Also, and I know that it's not a substitute, but it can be really cool, some of the scrapbook stores have old looking paper typewriter letters that look real.

Cindy

I was wondering about that... I've seen them, and in the absence of genuine old keys, I wonder if I could make sterling bezels for the scrapbook versions... Maybe cover the paper with mica?

I do have a way cool old typewriter in the attic, but when I went up to look at it, it appeared that the keys will have to be cut or sawed off! I thought they would just pop off! No way! So there will be a lot of filing and polishing involved.

Old typewriters can sometimes be had *very* cheaply at your local Goodwill store. It's worth a look, anyhow.

Celine

Cindy: You can get washers at the hardware store, put the paper under the washer, and fill the washer with crystal lacquer or diamond glaze or the clear gallery glass.

There also are some plastic washer looking things that have higher sides, they come in black, silver and brass color and you cut the letter, put it in the washer and fill.

Finally, if you have any rollabind discs, you can put the letter in and fill it.

Here are some that are on the Stampington site, to show you what you can do. Again you can use some washers...I wish I could remember what they are called.

OK, that's seriously cool. I was wondering how I was going to do that. Thanks.

Cindy