Diy Horsehair Ring

You want to find yourself a really good glue. I find a 6000 to be an awesome glue for this. What I started off using - and it will work really well for what we're doing today. You'Re also gon na want a few pieces of thread. A good nylon thread is really strong. It'S not gon na break when you put pressure on it. It'S not bad. Also find yourself a really good pair of scissors. You want to make sure your scissors are very sharp. Otherwise, it's just gon na pull your hair and ruin everything. You want something to kind of hold your hair steady. So I like to use a clamp. It will just stop the hairs from pulling out as you pressure on it as well. You'Re also going to find yourself something to tie the brain to when we start I like to use the back of a chair, works really well or have somebody hold it and last but not least, you need some horsehair mm-hmm and, of course, your horseshoe pendant or Your horsehair ring all available at verse Starcom. So when we get started with the hair, what you're gon na do first is you're gon na wash it I'm just use a mild dish. Soap even works really well and then you're gon na want to count out hairs. I find for most hair a good 80 hairs will be perfect for the size of the channel and these pieces. So if you can go ahead and count out 80 hairs and then we can get started so once you've got your hair all counted out, we are going to take your first string, you're, just gon na tie it around the end. Here, however, that looks like to you for me: I like to use a little Slipknot, makes a little bit easier, so you're gon na tie it make sure it's nice and secure, and then oh there we go. I like to do a couple little wraps around, just to make sure it's really strong, because nothing worse than getting braiding getting halfway done and all sudden you're not pulls off all right. Okay, so we're gon na take these two ends. Gon na make sure these two ends stay long enough, so you can tie them to your fixed object, whether that is your friends hand or the back of a chair or whatever it is. You want to use you're gon na, take your clamp and just clamp that hair right there to stop any extra pieces from pulling out and now we're ready to braid. So before you get started. Just make sure that you have your second string ready so that once your braid is complete, you can quickly tie the ends and not have to try to fumble around holding an end and cutting string and getting it all ready just be prepared. So have your string ready and off we go so I like to separate the hair into two separate pieces: try to make sure there is even as possible right and then you're gon na take a few strands from this side and cross it over to join the Other side take a few strands from this side cross it over to join that side. You'Re gon na do that the whole way down, so what we're doing is from the top from the top here. I hope you can see that we're gon na take a few strands cross. It join the other side, few strands from the top cross it to join the other side and we are gon na do that the whole way down now as a disclaimer. I have been doing this for nine years now, so if it does not come this easy to you, don't panic don't give up, don't throw it it. It takes some practice. Take some time. It'S not gon na be perfect. The first time you do it. You might have to do this a few times before you get something you're happy with, and you want to put a decent amount of pressure on it. If you hold it too, loosely you're going to end up with hairs that poked out you're gon na end up with kind of bubbles, so you just want to keep a nice steady pressure on it, okay and then every once in a while. I like to run my hands down the hair. It'S what I'm doing there because it gets tangled at the bottom. It kind of starts to braiding itself down there. So we will do this and, however long that takes is, however, long that so once you're out done, your braids you're gon na want to tie it at the ends. So I do suggest making your braids as long as possible when you're first starting out it's just gon na, make it easier for you to work with in the long run, once you get better at it and you're a little bit more confident on how to put These together, you can start working with shorter hair, but for now let's just use a nice long, hair nice long braids. That way. If we mess something up, then we can sorry. This is difficult on your own yeah. So if something gets messed up then you could always have a little bit extra to work with, instead of having to start all over now, if you have an extra set of hands to have somebody help you tie. That would be very handy because if you loosen up the hairs gon na lose him so keep it as tight as possible and tie it all right ready for the next step. So one thing we want to do before we go and take everything apart is you're. Gon na take your glue and I like to use a toothpick. This makes it a little bit easier, so we're gon na put a little bit of glue on our toothpick and we're gon na put a little bit here at the end cuz. This is gon na, be the spot where we will cut it to fit into our ring or the horseshoe pendant. Now you only want to do one side, because if it's on the other side, it's gon na look awful okay and then we will do the other side once we're ready to measure okay. So we're gon na cut our braid free here and take this guy off. Hey so what you do is you're gon na take your ring warrior where she pennant, whichever one you're using I take our ring. We'Re just gon na set this hair. We'Re gon na get an idea of where we need to put the glue for the end. So this is the end. Sorry, this is the end that the hair is gon na go into so you're gon na take your glue tend - and I can't put it just over top of there. You'Re gon na slowly go all the way around and we're gon na say that right here to here is where we're gon na want our next little bit of glue so get all multitask II use all your hands. I'M gon na squeeze a little bit of glue out now carefully without touching the metal we're gon na put glue on give it a good like half-inch space so that, if it's not in the exact right spot, that's okay! Okay! So it's on you're all ready to just let it dry. Now you want to wait. I like to give it a good 12 hours, wait as long as you want the longer you wait the easier it's gon na, be when you're ready to do it all right. So we've let everything dry, we're gon na, take our braids and our super sharp scissors and we're just gon na snip that top part where we glued to start with just nice and straight perfect. So as you can see it's kind of starting to come apart. Just a little bit: that's okay! If it starts to really pull apart, you can't want to stop reglue. It make sure it's a really good glue spot and then start all over, so we're just gon na here. We go slide this in here. Okay, that pokes at the bottom part just a little bit so you're gon na slide all the way around really push it down into that channel there, and then this is a scary part. This is where we're gon na start to cut. So you want to pull just a little bit, so this goes. I mean see that there inside see how it's sneak it up in there. So you want it about halfway. You'Re gon na have to eyeball it you're gon na want it halfway in that little channel right in there. So once you're pretty confident it's halfway, I'm gon na push this part up, and there is no science to this. This is all trial and error. You can do this, so what you're gon na do is once you're right here, you're gon na cut it. Oh, this is scary part I like to cut and leave a little bit more than I think I'm gon na need so that you know it's better than cutting too much and starting all over. So this is gon na be a little too much. But what I want you to do is just tuck: it tuck it in there. Okay tuck it in it almost looks done, but not quite so now that it's all tucked in just kind of go through and push all the hair down. So, as you can see, I have too much in here because it's kind of puffing up know if you can see that so what we're gon na do is you want something nice and sharp I like to use a little pin and we're just gon na pull This out and we're gon na cop, just a teeny, tiny bit more just load it or if you can hear my kids yeah no way in the background there huh okay, now we're gon na tuck that back under okay get that all tucked in there. If you have see, I don't know, you can see that I have this little hair that doesn't want to go in toothpicks. They are handy just that little guy in there go to your home okay. So we push it all down. It'S all still a little too big a ball. One thing can be difficult, so this part is gon na, be your most time-consuming and the most stressful part. Okay, so once you've got the perfect fit you're gon na take your piece out: I'm gon na take your glue and you're gon na glue along the whole bottom of this. You don't want to let this dry once you're glued you're going to mind, came unraveled a little bit. It will happen. You can start over if you like, we're not for the purpose of this video. I'M not so you just slide it in. So your glue will get in there and you want to make sure you don't use too much because it'll get really messy and then you're gon na slide. This in I'm gon na slide this in doo-doo-doo all right and then you're gon na kind of just squish. It all down make sure it's all nice and solid in there and you're gon na, let it dry and when it's all done drying, you will have your very own horsehair ring that you have made yourself. Congratulations wasn't that fun!