Cloth Covered Earbuds

My cat recently chewed through a fair amount of my beloved Korean Vibe BS-80HD ear buds.  I had several options, I could:

Buy a new pair for like fifty bucks
Repair them and use some fairly ugly heatshrink smack dab in the middle of the cable
Go all out like in this instructable!

Covering your earbud/headphone cables with material only requires basic soldering skills and patience!

Step 1 Materials/Tools

Materials
Earbuds to be covered
72" of round shoestring (if you order 72" shoestrings you will have double the amount, as there are 2 shoestrings)
3.5mm (1/8") gold plated stereo audio jack with built in strain relief (obtained at radioshack)
6mm Cable Pants
6mm Heatshrink (I used black)
A little bit of epoxy
Tape
Some solid-core wire (such as 24 gauge or something like that)

Tools:
Scissors
Wire-strippers
tweezers (optional)
lighter (good for melting ends of shoestrings and shrinking heatshrink)


Note: If you are doing this mod to headphones who's cable doesn't split to the left and right ear (such as beats headphones), you do not need the cable pants.

Comments

[sharkstun97]

If you get a coloured cable you can add a colourful flair to your headphones. This would be perfect for my green headphones with a black cable

[The Ideanator]

Brilliant idea!