July 30, 2010

How To Find Materials For Silver Spoon Rings

Filed under: Fashion — Clinton Nicoll @ 9:28 am

Back in the 1970s, during the hippy era, silver spoon rings were a common fashion accessory. They were worn to show of the new style that was hip and easy to customize. Such rings were simply to create back then, and people are still making them and wearing them today.

Spoon rings do vary in size and shape, due to the different types of spoons that you can work with when creating your ring. Using a wide spoon will give you a wider ring, which can be good for a smaller finger. Using a thinner spoon makes a thinner and more elegant spoon ring. All you need is a set of spoons that match what you want.

Finding spoons should be easy to do. You can walk into any novelty store to find cheap spoons being sold of various different materials. Second hand stores and sales at other stores generally also give you plenty of options for finding spoons. These discounts are normally because the spoons were not selling very well as spoons. Fortunately, some of the worst spoons will create nice looking spoon rings!

Since rings need a different look than spoon, you should be looking out for a different sort of style. Spoons that were discounted because of their gaudy design can still make excellent spoon rings. Flower designs or simple geometric shapes can make some very nice looking rings. You can try putting the spoon against your finger to help you visualize what the spoon will come out looking like.

All sorts of different materials can be transformed into spoon rings. You may, though, want to avoid stainless steel. Steel is hard to work with and isn’t very malleable at all. Gold is much more malleable and is very easy to transform into a ring, but silver is the easiest and best to make into a spoon ring. It is still solid enough to work well, but easy enough to work with.

Silver spoons do not generally cost more than stainless steel. Walk into a flea market and see if you can find a lot of silverware being sold. If the lot includes forks, don’t be worried. Part of the process of creating your own spoon rings involves cutting off the tines (or the bowls) so you can use forks just as well.

It is pretty simple to go out there and find spoons that can be easily used to make nice custom jewelry. All sort of different spoons will work, even if silver is the best. Pick a design you like from your local flea market, and have fun.

If you are interested in spoon rings the best place to get a silver spoon ring is silver-spoon-ring.com.

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