In looking for fidget rings to stick in easter eggs I saw a few guitar string rings. I have used guitar strings since my kids play, so it seemed a neat project to try. My strings aren’t aged much, we were having trouble with tuning one string and tried changing out all the strings. It turned out the issue was a broken washer in the tuning mechanism, and I had to replace the whole mechanism. Still, it left some wire wrapped strings with which to experiment.

I found some beads in my stash that would fit onto the guitar string. I used one of the beads as the anchor, gluing both ends of the string into the bead. The other beads are not glued and can be rearranged, although they are quite stiff.

I rather like the look of the beads on the guitar strings, but they aren’t as fidget friendly as I’d like. I think maybe a tube bead with a wider inside diameter might work better. Time to sift through the stash again!