How to Make a Buckeye Necklace (2024)

FAQs

How to prepare buckeyes for necklaces? ›

Dry your buckeye nuts in the sun for a few days. If you want to speed things up, you can dry them in an over at 200 degrees Fahrenheit (93.3 degrees Celsius) for two hours [source: Buckeyetree]. Mount a dried buckeye nut securely in your vice grips. Be careful not to tighten the vice too much or the nut will crack.

Dip into the cooled chocolate and gently wipe the bottom on the side of the bowl to remove excess chocolate. Place buckeyes on a sheet of parchment paper and chill. Twist toothpick or skewer to remove from ball and use a small knife to smooth the hole over.

It is said you can rub your favorite buckeye along the side of your nose to keep it oiled. While I haven't tried that, you can apply lacquer to a dried buckeye to keep the gloss look. Buckeye nuts come in a round or oblong spiny capsule and can commonly contain one, two, three, four or maybe even five buckeyes!

Removing the shell and roasting the nut neutralizes its harmful tannic acid content and makes for a protein-packed snack. If not prepared properly though, buckeye nuts are toxic to humans, causing symptoms including weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, paralysis, and death.

Waxed Cord​

Waxed Cord is often made in 3 or 4 ply cotton with a beeswax coating. The wax make the cords more water resistant and durable, so it allows it to pass through beads more smoothly. This type of thread is used for stringing necklaces with pendants, Macrame and homewares​.

Griffin High Performance bead cord is the strongest of them all. In fact, it is almost unbreakable, even with the thinnest of diameters. It has high-tech fibres that have an especially dense molecular structure. They are 15 times stronger than steel and cannot be torn apart by hand!

These seeds are as pleasing to hold as they are to behold. A flattened place adjacent to the "pupil" allows a person's thumb to settle on it just so. Keep one in your pocket as a good luck charm or talisman. If the fish aren't biting, rub your buckeye seed, spit on your bait, and hang on.

Not chilling the peanut butter balls long enough.

When the peanut balls aren't chilled long enough, they still have a soft texture that makes them tricky to work with because it's harder to have control when twirling them through the melted chocolate.

Can you touch a buckeye? ›

All parts of the red buckeye are poisonous to people and most animals if eaten. Touching them causes no problems, however.

Yes! You can freeze buckeyes for up to two months.

Once you have made the buckeye candy, transfer them to an airtight container and they will keep for up to two weeks. Their long shelf life makes them great to gift.

During September, buckeyes, which are large, shiny brown seeds, can be found underneath Aesculus trees. According to legend, carrying a pocketful of buckeyes brings good luck. Early Native Americans called these seeds buckeyes for their resemblance to the eyes of male deer, known as bucks.

These seeds are popularly believed to bring good luck, and school children especially still carry them in their pockets as a charm. And while highly poisonous, buckeye seeds contain much protein and were used as a food source by Native Americans who boiled and leached them to remove their toxins.

SHORTENING added to the chocolate is the big secret ingredient for buckeyes. This helps stabilize the chocolate so that it dips nicely, and helps prevent the chocolate from weeping and sweating once it's hardened.

Any part of the plant, if ingested, is poisonous but just touching it is not harmful. Farmers have been known to remove the buckeye tree from fields where cattle graze to prevent the animals from eating any part of the tree. It can cause paralysis, vomiting, diarrhea, stupor.

How to Store Buckeyes. Transfer the buckeyes to a shallow, airtight container. Store in the refrigerator for up to one week.