If you'd like to make some guitar string flowers of your own, Julia has a great DIY tutorial up on Candoodles, and the materials are incredibly simple: wire cutters, 1 thick guitar string, 3 thin guitar strings, and craft/binding wire. That's it!
If you are more interested in purchasing a string flower, Julia's online shop Stringcycle is dedicated to beautiful items made from reused instrument strings, and her repertoire is quite impressive, spanning jewelry to flowers to home decor. She finds her strings via instrument repair shops and musician friends, which got me thinking about all the musician friends I have and all the strings they may be breaking...
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Head on over to Candoodles for the full tutorial.
(Images: Candoodles via Stringcycle).
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At first I thought no, then the more I viewed the images, the more I really like them and how easy to clean!!
Good way to up-cycle.
My dad is an avid guitar player (plays while eating breakfast & watching TV LOL) and the strings he uses have different coloured ends on them. So since my daughter was born 5 years ago he has been cutting off the ends and saving them so someday he can make her a necklace with the metal ends as beads. It will be beautiful & so meaningful when it finally arrives!
D'Addario is the brand with different colored balls. It's the only brand I use. It allows them to place all of the strings in one 'envelope' so you can identify each one by color. It reduces waste since the other brands who use plain balls have to seperate them into marked envelopes.
Just be careful around your pets! Cats especially seem to be entranced by old guitar strings and the wire can easily puncture organs if ingested.
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I went to a Gardening expo recently, and this reminds me of a lot of the seller booths there. Lots and lots of garden art made out of recycled materials which I personally found completely, utterly, mortifyingly tacky, but which I still loved the idea of and hoped found it's way into the garden of someone who loved them.