VCR Tape Rollers, Stainless Steel Wire, Hematite Bead
Made a bunch of earrings from tape rollers from salvaged videocassette recorders. For icons of 1980's technology, they have a surprisingly art deco feel to me. Each VCR has a pair of these rollers, and I'm yet to find two pairs that are the same. The steel shaft is extremely tough steel - I broke a number of solid carbide drill bits before getting the technique for drilling them down. As you can see in the photo below, I started off using off-the-shelf earring hangers because i had run out of stainless steel wire. I thought these let the earrings down though, so ordered some 0.5mm SS wire and made my own hangers, complete with a little cylindrical bicone hematite bead.
There are a few pairs of these left - if anyone is interested, email me know. I'm asking $60 a pair.
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