How to Painlessly Pierce your Septum.

Normally, I could never poke holes in myself, nor get a tattoo.

I'm too squeamish.

However, I can see the attraction of a pierced septum, so, what the heck - I tried it.

_{This was supposed to be painless, but it hurt. A lot.}

Step 1: Materials and tools

The most important part of this project is a pair of small neodymium magnets.

I had a pair left over from my ROV Instructable, but they are easy to obtain anyway (don't you love ebay?).

Apart from that, you will need something to put "through" your septum. Pick something suitable for where and when you intend to wear it, maybe a chicken bone for that cave-man look, a long bolt for that trip to the hardware store.

I intend this to be a wind-up-the-pupils-near-the-end-of-term accessory, so I am going to use a pen.

You will also need a variety of normally-in-the-shed tools - fine-toothed saw, file, glue-gun and something to snip bamboo.

Comments

[jakee117]

I actually have a 2 gauge septum (body jewelry goes by the american wire gauge system) and piercing/stretching it is almost painless! since the captive bead ring is so heavy, I find that after a week or two of wearing it, I'll have enough space to stretch up again, though I still wait about 2 months between sizes. my goal size is 1/2"

[U456]

That would of hurt.

[Kiteman]

Oh?

[Kiteman]

Oh, it did...

[U456]

How did you take it out?

[Kiteman]

I just pulled at each end of the pen.

[U456]

Ok

[snappydragons]

This is neat! It gives me so many ideas..

[Advar]

Pretty cool gag!

[Mutantflame]

" it hurt like... a very hurty thing that hurts a lot "

That, is my new favourite quote.

Looks painful though

[Kiteman]

Oh, it was.

[Mutantflame]

Ha! Rather you than me.

[zzoe]

Tried this at home years ago, but i didn't have any small rare-earth magnets lying about, only this pointy thingy, et voilá. More painful (!), but the creep-out effect on the little nieces and nephews is greatly multiplied when i pull the toothpickish thing (or wooden match) through the hole and out the other side (and it doesn't hurt anymore). Also, i can hang socks on it.

[juicymoose]

to stop it hurting sooooo badly would you use smaller magnets and/or less powerful ones??

[Kiteman]

Yes - I used relatively large/powerful magnets, but only because I had them lying around.

[juicymoose]

what magnets would those be?

[Kiteman]

They're countersunk neodymium magnets I got for another project.

[juicymoose]

ooooh i get it now... thanks

[vishalapr]

I did this and my little cousin was freaked out! I enjoy freaking him out! Thanks for an awesome instructable!

[Kiteman]

Picture!

[vishalapr]

Here! My magnets weren't strong enough so the pen kept bending but it still freaked my cousin out! I just used magnets from my old cube toy that I bought! They were neodymium magnets but they were old so they weren't strong!

I didn't want to put these in my nose again so sorry about no pic with them in my nose!

[Kiteman]

It bend through weakness, it bent through roundness - the magnets I used were flat, yours are rounded.

If you built a little epoxy or similar around the magnet to sort of square it off, it would be much steadier.

[vishalapr]

I guess I will use some sugru to make it into a square shape because I did not have any other magnets! I used these magnets from a Neo-Cube!

[juicymoose]

I dont understand why it hurt so much...

[cdawisconsin]

I'm so sorry, but this picture just cracks me up. Sitting here laughing out loud. Like the Instructable too =)

[Kiteman]

Thank you.

[tilmen]

Very good...I will do this as a joke

[Kiteman]

Post a picture when you do!

[The Jamalam]

I just looked at the title for the first time in ages, saw the saw (no pun intended, but oh how I enjoy the english language) and then eagerly went to the next step before remembering this was a trick. Nicely put together.

[tilmen]

You can get such 'strong' magnets everywhere these days.I'll soon post an instructable on very stong magnets and good magnet shields you can purchase in your city in 15 minutes and for a little bucks.

[Cooldeal]

"Well here's how it happened doc; I was throwing my marker up in the air and catching it......." LOL.

[pokerjunkie]

this is sick... but smart...

[Kiteman]

Thank you!

[thawkman]

Why the heck would you even want to do that?!?!

[ibarnes]

i agree.

[Kiteman]

You're sitting looking at some spare neodymium magnets...

_{(You do know it's not a real piercing, don't you?)}

[ReCreate]

In the first picture you look unusually like the guy in back to the future...

[Plo Koon]

yeah he does!

[Gamer917]

nah, he looks more like the Doctor from the second worst Star Trek show (voyager)

[ReCreate]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Brown