Reged: 08/06/04
Posts: 4381
Loc: Within stray mortar fire of DC
I had a ring in the top, and 2 barbells, one on each side. The whole thing was beautiful, 18-gauge. This is before barbells were commercially available, and they were not screws. I had an artist in baltimore I found by asking around tattoo parlors make them for me. He was a welder too.
Funny memory, when I went to pick them up at his place, they were in the autoclave, and he had had a long night, and I remember the sight of him, coming down the stairs, black spikey hair, with magic marker drawings all over him. His girlfriend, another local artist, had spent the night decorating him. I was this impressionable 18 year old and thot he was beeeeutiful.
I'm always surprised piercings caught on as they have. My younger brother has many, many piercings and tats... Gen X hit him like a ton of bricks.