DIY Gradient Wood Tasting Spoon Pendant Light – Part 3 — Prepping The Spoon Bowls (This Is The Exciting Part!)

I estimated that this pendant gentle would require about 1200 spoons, so I began this venture a couple of weeks in the past by reducing the handles off of the spoon bowls utilizing wire snips. After which a couple of days in the past, I spent a day and night sanding the entire spoon bowls to spherical off the minimize. Right here’s what they regarded like earlier than, with a straight minimize edge…

And right here’s what they regarded like after I sanded them.

Since I don’t have a bench sander, I simply used my little handheld rotary sander, and used my knees to carry it the wrong way up. After a number of hours of that, my legs felt numb, however I received the entire spoons sanded.

After that, I wanted to prime all 1200 spoon bowls. I began out priming them one by one with slightly craft brush, however realized in a short time how insane that plan was. So as a substitute, I positioned them flat on a piece floor exterior and sprayed them.

This was a fairly irritating course of as a result of they’re very gentle weight, and each from time to time, the pressure of the spray would ship them flying. However even with that frustration, it was a lot quicker and simpler than portray each individually with primer.

So by the point I started working on these yesterday, the entire spoon bowls had been minimize, rounded, and primed. I began my work yesterday by grouping the spoon bowls into 15 piles, one for every of the 15 colours that I plan to make use of, after which labored on one pile, one coloration, at a time. I began by giving every spoon a fast sanding by hand to clean out any tough end from the spray primer.

After which utilizing a small craft brush, I painted the backs of the spoons with liquid gold gilding.

This was a two-part course of as a result of I needed to maintain the tip whereas portray a lot of the again, then let it dry, after which paint the tip that I had been holding on the primary go ’spherical. However this was the enjoyable half. I may sit and paint spoon bowls whereas listening to podcasts all day day-after-day. 😀

After the backs have been dry (and gold gilding dries very quick), I flipped them over and portray the entrance of the spoon bowls utilizing the paints that I combined in Half 2 of this venture. Every spoon required two coats of paint to get the complete coloration. And people tiny little cups of paint that I combined have been loads of paint for 2 coats even for the highest, greatest rings of the sunshine that can maintain essentially the most spoon bowls.

After the paint was dry, I used the tiny brush and the liquid gold gilding once more to color across the edges to “body” the colourful paint. I purposefully did this in a messy, random method, identical to I did on the piece of spoon art work I made.

In any case of that, I nonetheless wanted to cowl the sides. I attempted utilizing the comb and liquid gold gilding, nevertheless it wasn’t as quick and straightforward as I had hoped.

So I received out my 18kt Gold Leafing Pen, and that was excellent for masking these edges.

And the ultimate step was to drill the opening for the soar ring that can maintain these colourful little jewels into the wire lampshade cage. For this, I used my Dremel and a tiny drill bit.

So I did all of these steps in an meeting line vogue, one pile, one coloration, at a time. I solely received two colours completed, however these are the colours that required essentially the most spoons. As I am going alongside, I’ll want fewer and fewer spoons for every subsequent coloration. However right here’s my pile of purple all prepped and able to be held on the wire cage. I wanted 88 of those…

And right here’s the darkish pink for the subsequent ring. I wanted 84 of those…

After which I solely received one completed of the third coloration in order that I may take footage of the method. 😀 However I’ll want 80 of the third coloration. So I’ll proceed that course of till I’ve all 15 colours finished, with every subsequent coloration requiring 4 fewer spoons than the colour earlier than it.