Industrial Strength Body Jewelry

DIY-lets are coming!

Jonathan — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:21:47 +0000

Here are some of the latest pictures of our DIY-lets. DIY-lets, or “Do-It-Yourself” Eyelets, have threaded holes around the face that allows the wearer to change the look of their eyelet whenever they want! We will have a stock pattern of holes per each size of eyelet, but… custom threaded hole placement for these eyelets is also available. They are available in Single or Double flare from 00g – 2-3/4″…

Our Newest Jewelry!

Jonathan — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:21:18 +0000

Here is a picture of some of the newest fine quality body jewelry that is now available through INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH! Feast your eyes!

Back in Black…

Jonathan — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:46:19 +0000

Check out this 1-5/8″ pair of Black Steel Double Flare Inlay Eyelets with Gaboon Ebony Wood Inlay Disks. This is one of the stock designs that are able to be etched on the surface of the disks, but we are also able to etch custom designs… within reason…
So sexy…

So sexy...

INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH’s “THREADED ORBIT” WHOLESALE CLIENT GIVEAWAY #2

Jonathan — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:07:49 +0000

As part of the promotion of our second annual Industrial Ear Project Challenge, EARMAGEDDON 2012, we are having a $150 wholesale gift certificate giveaway on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/isbodyjewlery) for our clients. This gift certificate may be redeemed with us towards the purchase of Titanium Threaded Orbits, including configuration of the winner’s choice. This will be the first of a series of Threaded Orbit gift certificate giveaways that we will have to promote EARMAGEDDON 2012. These particular giveaways will take place every Wednesday until further notice (except for this one… which is starting on a Thursday).
HOW TO WIN:
We will do a post, along with a picture of some threaded orbits, on our page on our Facebook page at 4:00 p.m. PST on Thursday 03/22/2012 that will begin with this: “INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH’s “THREADED ORBIT” WHOLESALE CLIENT GIVEAWAY #2”
In that post there will be an accompanying picture displaying some Threaded Orbits (the post text will also be in the description of the picture). Customers of ours will share that picture of orbits on their business or personal Facebook page to rally their fans to click on the picture of the orbits and vote for their shop to win.
To Vote, Your fans will need to:
1) “Like” the INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH page (if they are not already fans of our page)
2) Click on, and “Like”, the picture of the orbits
3) “Comment” with the name/state of your business (i.e. “Acme Body Piercing/California”) in the comment section of the picture of the orbits
4) “Share” the picture of the orbits with the “public” on their own Facebook page
We will do a drawing at the end of the giveaway to choose a winner. The more fans that vote for you, the better chance you will have to win! We will be able to tell the winner which of their fans won it for them at the end of the giveaway if they want.
Below is a sample post of what you might use in the “write about this post” section, when you re-post our rally your fans. Feel free to copy and paste it and use it, or parts of it, on your page:
Hey Fans! Help us win some awesome jewelry from one of our great jewelry suppliers, INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH! This is what we need you to do.
1) “Like” their page (if you are not already one of their fans)
2) CLICK ON THE PICTURE of the orbits and “Like” it
3) “Comment” on the picture by copying and pasting YOUR SHOP NAME/YOUR STATE in the comment section
4) “Share” the picture with the public on your page
So, what do you say? Let’s do this!
The prize that will be awarded in INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH’s “THREADED ORBIT” WHOLESALE CLIENT GIVEAWAY #2 ($150 wholesale gift certificate) to the winning INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH CORP client will be in lieu of a wholesale credit that will be applied to their account. We will choose a name from a list of the eligible soon after completion of the giveaway, and notify the winner by phone or e-mail.
Rules for INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH’s “THREADED ORBIT” WHOLESALE CLIENT GIVEAWAY #2:
1) This contest will begin at 4:00p.m PST on 03/22/2012, and end at 4:00p.m 03/27/2012.
2) Only the actions of legitimate Facebook personal profiles will be considered to be eligible.
3) A “vote” is considered to be the combined actions of “Like”, “Comment”, and “Share” of one Facebook personal profile
Rules are subject to change. This contest is void where prohibited.

There’s Gold in them there hiils…

Jonathan — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:30:23 +0000

INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH would like to introduce you to the judge of BVLA’s GOLDEN AWARD in EARMAGEDDON 2012:
Paul Stoll is the owner of the oldest active body piercing shop in the world, BODY MANIPULATIONS in San Francisco, and a very well-respected body piercer in the body piercing community. Growing up in the perfect city at the perfect time to get into piercing, Paul started practicing his future art on himself in 1989… at the ripe young age of 15! After a few years of learning what he could from who he could, he opened his own piercing business within a hair salon in the Haight district. In 1997, still yearning for something more, Paul went to work for Vaughn at the world renowned Body M. Through planning and perseverance, Paul eventually took over ownership of Body M from Vaughn, ushering in a new generation and matured the business into what it is today. Paul is very active in promoting safe body art practices in California, and is well known for his love of everything gold body jewelry, which has earned him the moniker… Goldfinger.

Paul "Goldfinger" Stoll

Did you know…

Jonathan — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:48:15 +0000

Erik Dakota was a body piercer and a visionary at a time when the modern body piercing scene was just taking shape and gaining steam in the early 1990’s. Under the tutelage of Fakir Musafar , Erik pushed the envelope of what was already being done in the body piercing world a little further. He experimented with and perfected placement of piercings in the ear that had not yet been done before. He allowed the first recipients of some of these new experimental piercings to name them; the “rook” and the “daith” piercings being two of those piercings that are still done today… every day. He also forged new paths by figuring out the logistics of having a single piece of jewelry go through 2 or more piercings at once. This led to the wild ear masterpieces that he created , that led him to coin the term for them… the “Industrial Ear Project”. This piercing, of course, has spawned the popularity and the name of the ever-popular “Industrial” piercing that is done quite often nowadays.

Erik Dakota performing live at a benefit for BodyM in 2003

EARMAGEDDON 2012

Jonathan — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:19:17 +0000

EARMAGEDDON 2012 News Update:
The start date is set for March 1st, which is when INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH will begin accepting applications from professional body piercers all over the world to enter the second coming of their Ear Project Challenge, EARMAGEDDON 2012. The last day that entries will be taken will be July 31st. We know that some of you out there have already got some projects in the works, and we can’t wait to see what you guys come up with this year! We will post the rules here on the Contests page a couple of days before then. There will be some changes to some things from the previous year, but nothing too major.

There will be an addition of an “old school” category… for entrants who use basic jewelry that was available in the 90′s. There have been some pretty cool basic jewelry ear projects than have been executed over the years, by some pretty talented earchitects. We wanted to pay homage to where it all came from by giving the genre its own prizes. All who qualify to enter the “old school” category will also be entered into the main category.

from body piercer Bryan Thomas of Tenessee USA

from body piercer Seth Dietz of Oregon USA

from body piercer Rob Hill from Iowa USA

Here Is Where The Game Changes…

Jonathan — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 05:52:40 +0000

All the way to the left is three TBB (Titanium Barbell) connected together at each corner of the triangle with two threaded ends that when combined, form a double sided threaded end that pivots. Going counter-clockwise from the bottom left:

1) TBJ-3/32”/TPRBJ-3/32” combo (Titanium Ball Joint-3/32”/Titanium Prong Ball Joint-3/32”)
2) TB-1/8”/TPRBJ-3mm combo (Titanium Ball-1/8”/Titanium Prong Ball Joint-3mm)
3) TB-5/32”/TPRBJ-4mm combo (Titanium Ball-5/32”/Titanium Prong Ball Joint-4mm)

This piece was put together to show off the three different sizes of ball joint pivot ends that are available.

In the center, there are five TUH6 (Titanium Universal Hub-6 hole); one with nothing attached, and four with various attachments. Starting with the naked one, and going counter-clockwise:
1) This shows you what a TUH6 looks like without anything attached to it.
2) This is a TUH6 with six TBJ-3/32” (Titanium Ball Joint-3/32”) screwed into it.
3) This is a TUH6 with three TDTD-5mm (Titanium Double Threaded Disk-5mm) screwed into three of the six holes, and the opposite thread of each TDTD is covered up by a TBJI-3/32” (Titanium Ball Joint Internal-3/32”)
4) This is a TUH6 (anodized copper) with three TBJ-3/32”(anodized yellow) screwed into three of the six holes. Attached to each of the three TBJ-3/32” are three TPRBJ-3/32”(anodized copper)… and what happens when you combine those two threaded ends together? That’s right… it creates a double threaded end that pivots!
5) This is a TUH6 that has six TDST 14/14 (Titanium Double Sided Thread-14g/14g) screwed into all six holes. The TDST, which is also available in 14g/16g, enables the TUH6 to be connected to barbells. They also can be used to connect other internally threaded parts together! Pretty neat, huh?

And in the pile to the left of miscellaneous parts, the only thing pictured that I haven’t described yet are the TTE-14g (Titanium Threaded Eye-14g). There are three pictured (one on the bottom left, and two in the middle on the right), and they can be screwed into any 14g internal part. To the eye part could be attached; dangles, jump rings, chain, etc…
So, what do you think about that?!!

More Earmageddon Pieces

Jonathan — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:43:20 +0000

These items will be available to be ordered very soon. I wanted to get you all excited about what is on the horizon.

In this picture there are three orbits. The two on the bottom are orbits that are already in our catalog (TBFGO3 & TBFG04). They both have the TBJI-3/32”(Titanium Ball Joint Internal-3/32”) screwed on to cover all of th…e threads. Attached to each of the TBJI, is a TPRBJ-3/32”… and those two ends combined, create a double sided threaded end that pivots. Screwed into the TPRBJ are straight barbells… but you could use 14g curves, circulars…whatever you want.

The third orbit, the one on the top, is not in the catalog yet. It is set with a BKO (black faux-pal), and there are three 14g threads protruding from the top… and three miniature “eyes” that are affixed underneath. The code for it is TFPGO6B1, which is the code for the orbit without the dangles. You could order it with or without the dangles attached, and can also now order dangles separately.

In our grand master plan to turn piercers into body jewelers… a piercer could have many variations from our ever emerging line of DIY body jewelry… and create absolutely stunning masterpieces on their own!

Earmageddon Equipment

Jonathan — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:37:28 +0000

These items will be available to be ordered very soon. I wanted to get you all excited about what is on the horizon.

Pictured on the left, is a little thing I threw together (a body jeweler could too!). It consists of a TUH6 (Titanium Universal Hub-6 hole), that has screwed into it a TBJ-3/32” (Titanium Ball Joint-3/32”) on the bottom, and two TFPGO2-4mm (in the catalog) and one TFPGO2-6mm (in the catalog) on the top. Screwed on over each of the opposite threads of the three orbits are TBJI-3/32” (Titanium Ball Joint Internal-3/32”), and connected to all three of those are TPRBJ-3/32”(Titanium Prong Ball Joint-3/32”). Screwed onto all three of the TPRBJ-3/32” are TBB (Titanium Barbell) with TSB-5/32” (Titanium Spiked Ball-5/32”). It is all anodized dark blue and light blue.

Pictured on the right is another thing I threw together (you could too!). It consists of a TFPCGO3-6mm (in the catalog) that has two TCUBB (Titanium Curved Barbell) screwed onto two of the threads…with TSB-5/32” (Titanium Spiked Ball-3/32”) screwed onto them. The remaining thread on the orbit is covered by a TBJI-3/32” (Titanium Ball Joint Internal-3/32”), and attached to that is a TPRBJ-3/32”(Titanium Prong Ball Joint-3/32”). Screwed onto the TPRBJ-3/32” is a TBB (Titanium Barbell) with a TB-5/32” (Titanium Ball-5/32”). I anodized it all pink… for the ladies. Are you guys ready to get busy?