Monday, April 23, 2012

TUTORIAL: Delic's headphones and gramophone

I though most suitable material could be boxboard, in order to survive way on cons. But I ended up buying cream foam and have 100% no complaints ! It sticks together perfectly and holds nicely :>

So I used following:      cream foam (2x pink, 3x white)
                                   scissors
                                   old pair of headphones
                                   paper
                                   hot glue gun (if you don't have one, I used first glue for wood)
                                   ruler
                                   black wire
                                   pencil, black marker

Ok, let's start with gramophone first :>



  • For body I used one pink and one white piece of cream foam. 
  • For sides I cut stripes about 1,5 cm width each one. Two pink and two white for right and left side and two pink and two white for upper and lower side. DON'T FORGER TO USE RULER !! It holds really bad together when you cut without lines..
  • For handle I cut those pieces on the picture up here :> (really don't know how to explain it better than with picture, sorry  guys)
  • Then I glued all pairs of stripes together with hot glue gun like this ↓↓↓



Handle should looks like this after puting it all togehter ↓↓↓


Next step it's up to you guys. Front side; you can personalize it the way you like. You can just draw lines, or use again cream foam like me. Since I'm big detailist, I cut that speaker, stripe after stripe from foam and even did entry for headphones. 



  • In the picture 1. you can see where I did cut - the entry for headphones ↑↑↑
  • In the picture 2. I cut out little circle with hole in the middle, and glued it on entry. It makes impression of speaker or computer entry for headphones.
  • The last thing I did was that I glued it all together and tadaaaaaah !!

Ok, now the headphones.

  • I did a draft of shape for headphones. It's better to measure it twice or three times, so it's not too short for covering headphones.

  • I used those thin stripes for edges, for covering headphones from behind. They should be thicker !! I did those strips about 8mm. 
  • And then glued headphones inside where the red lines are.

That's all, your headphones are done !! :>



It took me about 2hours, since I used glue at first. I even burn myself with hot glue T^T but it was worth it. I'm really satisfied with final look. 




5 comments:

  1. These look really good! I'll have to go find the supplies and try to make them myself. Thank you for the guide!

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  2. really awesome! thank you for this! ^^

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  4. Where do u think i could find 1 of those earphones? I once had a pair lik them, but im not sure if i sold them @ a garage sale or wat. My friend & i r cosplayin Psyche & Delic, & we r already havin a though time lookin 4 Psyches headphones already. Sorry about all this babble, ill stop now. ^_^; I also liked on how much detail u put into this. ^_^

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    1. Sorry for the late reply.
      About Delic's headphones; I just found some old unfunctional in my drawer. I used them for skype so it has microphone which has to be removed first.

      About Psyche's ones; friend of mine bought some cheap one in one of these stores - everything for 1$/5$/10$ (not sure how it's called in your country) then painted them white and pink.

      Hope I helped a little and thank you for your appreciation :>

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