How to make an awesome, simple ring out of colored pencils

Peter Brown is a computer geek by day and a woodworker by night and weekend. He recently posted a video and series of pictures demonstrating a fun project he experimented with that turned out very successfully.

Using a box of colored pencils and some glue, he created this nifty piece of wooden jewelry…

 



Assuming you have the tools, the process is wonderfully simple…

Get some colored pencils…

 

 

Glue them together…



 

Drill a hole the size of the ring you want…

 

Rough cut the outside of the ring…

 

Begin shaping it on a lathe…

 

 

 

Finish shaping it on a lathe…

 

 

 

Spray lacquer on it…

 

 

And you’re done…

 

 

 

Here’s a video of the process you can watch for more detail…

 

 

Brown was not expecting his weekend experiment to generate the interest it has, so he’s not prepared for orders. But he says he’ll make more and add them to his Etsy page soon.

 

 

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