Magnetic Earrings

Tacky costume jewellery suddenly becomes cool when you make it yourself.

Step 1 Sources for materials

Small crystals (lead glass) or plastic "rhinestones" with flat backs can be purchased at craft stores. These are 2mm in diameter - I discovered later that I shoud have gotten bigger crystals, or smaller magnets in order for them to cover the magnets completely, but the earrings look all right as is. The magnets are neodymium discs 1/8" diameter by 1/32" thickness (3.2mm by 0.8mm), from kjmagnetics.com - very cheap, $2.00 for 25. Superglue...buy anywhere for under a dollar.

Tools: A pair of tweezers or forceps for picking up the crystals (if you can find plastic ones, these would be better than metal), and a toothpick for repositioning.

Comments

[leiamme]

uhhm i went on the site and it said 1 for 60 cents

[xenobiologista]

I think you may be looking at the wrong thing. They have a lot of different products. The 1/8 inch diameter by 1/32 inch thickness ones are now 10 for $1.20 but it's definitely not 60 cents each. Here's the direct link to the product page: http://www.kjmagnetics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=D201-N52

(By the way, I wrote this like years ago. Recently prices of rare earth metals have gone up a lot, so that may be one reason why they're more expensive.)

[leiamme]

ohhh thx :)

[Hexpigge]

Hahahaha! I thought I was the first to think about that Idea, really good tutorial :]

[astrozombies138]

hmm say i was to place the magnets in the back of two wooden circles would they essentialy be "magnetic plugs"?

[jesuisravi]

haha, the magnets would probably have to be stronger and set in the wooden spheres to avoid gaps?

[danedot]

Hello, I'm Daniela from Romania, and i wanna buy from internet some mini magnets like this for my earrings projects. Can you give me a link ? Here i have not seen such magnets, and i was wondering if can i buy them from America with paypal or somehow. Thank you and have a sunny day :) thank you :)

[xenobiologista]

Hi, I did put the name of the seller of the magnets in the Instructable, it's K&J Magnetics http://kjmagnetics.com/ They accept PayPal.

[Mom0fTwins]

The gold plating is good for those of us with allergies to some base metals.

[thewoodcarver]

I use these for acupressure to lose weight and stop smoking , My MD does acupuncture and showed me the spots to put the magnets ,It seems to help the carvings for smoking ....there are several sites on it and someone is selling gold plated magnets for about $80 to stop smoking ....this looks nicer then when I was running around with needles in my ear

[NobodyInParticular]

If you buy from the supplier pictured, $80 would buy you about 300 gold plated magnets or 1800 with just nickel plating.

It's not the gold that makes those "medical magnets" expensive, it's vendors who know their customers are desperate enough that they'll pay anything without asking questions.

[alex-sharetskiy]

gold plated magnets? just get some cheap ones from radio shack! the gold that is there just makes it more expensive

[thewoodcarver]

I just use the ones from old headphones they work ...when I started using the magnets the family saw a TV commercial on the gold plated ones and wanted to buy them ...cheaper to use some gold nuggets/dust I have and attach to the magnets but not sure how to do so .....wonder if I could electro plate a copper covered one

[alex-sharetskiy]

the gold doesn't really do anything, just protects the magnet from rust, unlike what they say, "the gold goes through the skin" and such, all lies

[Rye]

Wow, these things would certainly make construction sites a lot more interesting.

[cowscankill]

lol... My super rare earth magnets can rip thin skin...like ears...

[such_momjeans]

My teenagers freaked out when I did the magnetic body jewels using old and tiny computer components.