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The New Hotness

  • Danger Zone Earrings: GITD Set

    Embiggening the SCP symbols used on the yellow vinyl-on-acrylic version improves their proportions:

    SCP Earrings - GITD vs vinyl PSA
    SCP Earrings – GITD vs vinyl PSA

    The black-on-white look come from vinyl PS atop GITD tape atop some transparent red acrylic, which looks a whole lot better in its natural environment:

    SCP Earrings - GITD in action
    SCP Earrings – GITD in action

    Making those ten samples requires 15 minutes of laser time (mostly kiss-cutting the patterns at maybe 5 mm/s) and another 25 minutes of weeding and primping. I’m not convinced this is an economically feasible activity, but I really like the results.

    Nah, I’m still not getting my ears punched.