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WIP : Vinyl Record Earrings 01

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These are some earrings I had made for a job this week - I was hired to create good prototypes of the projects coming up in the Kohl's Design-It Lab that would look good on camera.

One of the projects was to make earrings out of old vinyl records. These are the most complex design I've taken on yet, but I'm very happy with how they came out!

They were cut out of records with a jewelers saw - this week, Wednesday, was the first time I've ever used one, so it was a quick "trial by fire" type thing - and a hand drill for the holes. The sakura were definitely the most complex shape, but not too bad once I stopped breaking saw blades :O

I'm going to do a quick tutorial on how I made these - I don't profess to be an expert, but it'll be what I found out from experimenting, and it really is a fun and easy(ish) project to take on (and not too expensive, either - I think the saw + blades and the hand drill are like $30 or so... and you can find records at resale shops or Half Price Books cheap, too!)

But, yeah! Sakura earrings! Here's hoping they like them...

And the picture was taken with my cellphone, I'm sorry for the quality ^^;
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Make
LG Electronics, Inc.
Model
LG RUMOR2
Date Taken
Apr 21, 2011, 2:35:25 PM
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BeadCycler's avatar
very cool, makes me want to bust out all the BAD records from the basement. But I would need the saw & blades. Where would one get something like that???