Make your own iPhone 4 case from a souvenir bracelet

I don't think this will have the same shock absorbent properites of a proper band but try it at your peril.

This is a great idea --- that doesn't work!!!

This does not work at all, really. No protection at all like a real bumper by Apple...

I tried it with a two bands - LiveFree and ones from Twilight thing..

The wrist bands do NOT cover the glass well - so there is no good protection of the glass corners. The bands should be significantly wider than they are. Besides, cutting holes only makes the bands rip --- you have to go through 30 bands before you can get it right - and so what it doesn't protect well, anyway.

Seriously, the Apple Bumpers are so fantastic -maybe even worth the 29 bucks for them.... probably they are so nice because they might well have been designed for every iPhone - to be applied at the end of assembly - and some bean counter idiot thought of a brilliant plan to not install them and make some extra cash selling them, instead...
No doubt about it every iPhone should have had one of these in the box - who would design a wonderful work of art and leave the 8 corners of phone actually be corners of glass...

does this work with just any wristband?

If it don't work as a handy cheese grater, I'll store some CD/DVD's on it.

Only the Help For Heroes brackets seem to persist in the UK but I'm sure they'd look pretty good if cut carefully.

Google: "wristbands with a message"

Any color you want with almost any wording you want as well.

LOL. I was wondering if this would work, but figured the diameter would be wrong. Didn't know the Livestrong bracelets stretched that much.

I need a black Bumper and I doubt Livestrong bracelets come in black. :-(

I tried it on my iPhone 4. When you try to create cutouts for the power button, headphone jack, and dock connector -- the band snaps in two! It was a great idea, but you need a wider band that is thicker. The tension created with the band around the phone is too much for the band to displace.

Too bad, since this was a great Patch!!

We have loads of these lying around the house. I used a black one on one of my long telephoto lens which suffered "lens creep". Worked wonders with the lens.

you didn't mention if the decals fix the antenna problem