solder / welding brass

[PawPaw]

Is there some problem with lead contacting the skin? I'm not being facetious here, just unaware that simple contact is a problem. (Ingestion, yeah, I get that). Plus, I load lots of lead bullets every year and while I'm careful when casting and tumbling, I've never really been concerned with simple contact when loading.

The reason I ask is that for years hereabouts there was an old-wives remedy for avoiding poison ivy, and that was to wear a lead sinker on a string around the neck. Lots of folks I know would do that and it seemed to guard against the poison ivy rash.

[Jericho941]

Eh, up to a half-inch one isn't that bad. It's once you get to the huge ones where it's super gross.

[Highspeed]

Brass isn't suitable for piercings, I think you'll need to do what Denis said and get them plated.
I think there is still possibly some risk involved - can't you come up with a non piercing application ?

[Darrell]

The way gauge wearers work their way up in size, I got a mental picture of them moving up to say, howitzer shells in their ears.

[Precision]

You're gonna need to sleeve the gauge in either plastic or stainless.

so a bit of shrink tube which will be hidden by the flesh of the ear anyway???

could I electroplate them after welding them up. with gold or silver?

[Aglifter]

Don't know if it will work or not, but Grainger sells an array of heat shrinking Teflon - works well at protecting wires in 500 degree environments.

[Greg]

The "jewelry" in this case is gauges for the ears.

This sounds like another one of those things of which I should not ask for a translation, nor do a Google image search upon.

Cannibal chic. Or something like that.

Lost souls looking to establish SOME kind of identity and belong to something, even if they have to borrow someone else's markings. (Fake of course) Tribal tattoos are just the tame beginning.

[HTRN]

Lost souls looking to establish SOME kind of identity and belong to something, even if they have to borrow someone else's markings.

I find it generally a good idea to be less distinguishable..

[Aglifter]

Not all of us are as concerned about how we would be described to the police...

[Precision]

Not all of us are as concerned about how we would be described to the police...

Even the jackbooted thugs???