The holidays are over, ABT opened 3 shows, my kids were in two shows, and we just moved! NOW I can start blogging again! (Not that I was very prolific before!) So this post is a bit of bragging about a prop I made at the last second...literally, still drilling about 3 pm before Opening Night! They are some steam-punky old-fashioned sound operator headphones. I think they turned out pretty cute!
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| On my head! |
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| My replica close-up. |
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| My research 1. |
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| My research 2. |
I started with some airline headphones, and added wire to the top. I removed the foam around the ear pieces. Drilled holes in the center of the earpieces. I had found some old brown rubber furniture slides to put on the outside of the ear pieces, and also drilled hles in the center. I had to Dremel a groove in the earpieces and the furniture slides to fit the small dowel "antennas" on. Spray painted various parts with the must-have Copper Metallic paint from Krylon. I sandwiched the dowels in between the ears and the slides, bolting them together with my favorite small #6 screws and nuts. Put the ear foam back on and gaff-taped some speaker cord to part of the original cord of the headphones! Pretty cool, huh?
