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Thanks, guys, for the compliments.

Brian, I made those, all of those, one at a time. I have a leather punch, that, unlike a paper punch, leaves a useable, small disc.

The lenses are punched from orange and red medicine and vitamin bottles. The surrounds are aluminum tubing I cut on a small tubing cutter with a homemade depth gauge, filled to a uniform height in a jig I made out of aluminum tubing. The reflective backing is the foil lining from a cigarette pack, also cut with the same size cutter on the leather punch. The foil has an incredibly small grid pattern that resembles the LED diode pattern in the real bulbs. All assembled with clear nail polish.

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Thanks, guys, for the compliments.

Brian, I made those, all of those, one at a time. I have a leather punch, that, unlike a paper punch, leaves a useable, small disc.

The lenses are punched from orange and red medicine and vitamin bottles. The surrounds are aluminum tubing I cut on a small tubing cutter with a homemade depth gauge, filled to a uniform height in a jig I made out of aluminum tubing. The reflective backing is the foil lining from a cigarette pack, also cut with the same size cutter on the leather punch. The foil has an incredibly small grid pattern that resembles the LED diode pattern in the real bulbs. All assembled with clear nail polish.

Wow, I can't imagine building all those that way.

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