Processor Die Earrings - General

Hey guys, a couple of months ago I made my girlfriend a pair of earrings made from some Intel Celeron processors and I thought I'd share them with ya. Here are the pictures that I took while making them, I didn't really intend to show them off as any sort of tutorial or anything, but I suppose they could actually work as one, depending on whether you even really like how they look. Not really sure if massive images upset you guys, but here ya go anyhow. I guess my phone produces giant images. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/UVPEC.jpg[/IMG] Here are the processors before I removed the heat spreaders and such. As you can see they're a couple of Intel Celerons. One was clocked at 2.60 GHz and the other at 2.70 GHz [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/FMC09.jpg[/IMG] And here they are with their heat spreaders removed. They were actually a giant pain in the ass to get off. I forgot how I even did it. I think it's amusing that a lot of people that have put computers together don't know that this is what the processors actually look like. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/PBMY4.jpg[/IMG] Then I sawed the dies out of the things to make em easier for me to start shaving down. I used a nice little rotary multitool of mine that's kind of like a dremel. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/WIYm5.jpg[/IMG] I then sanded down the sides of them and drilled a hole in em to put on the earringy bits. They're pretty much done at this stage. The sides are all chipped up because of how close I sanded toward the die. I found that they look a lot less boring this way. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/2JDlT.jpg[/IMG] Grabbed a couple of sterling silver earring thingies to put in the holes, and they're done! This one is pretty blurry but oh well. And there ya go, a pair of earrings made out of processor cores.

I would've thought the processor die earrings would actually look more like... processor dies... Kind of like [url=https://www.google.nl/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1282&bih=829&q=processor+die&gbv=2&oq=processor+die&aq=f&aqi=g-L1&aql=&gs_l=img.3..0i19.2687l4555l0l4683l13l13l0l2l2l0l36l343l11l11l0.llsin.]these[/url] things :)

True, no offense but those just sorta look like chipped up black rectangles.

Yeah no offense, but those really don't look like jewelry

Use a blowtorch on the chips next time to separate them from the PCB. Soak in hydrochloric acid briefly to etch and expose die traces and their beautiful rainbow sheen through charred PCB. There's tons of tutorials online on how to do it properly. In fact, one guy makes earrings for his girlfriend and they look amazing. Another guy makes cuff links. I would link but I've forgotten the threads.

You're going to need to etch off the top layers of that if you want to see anything interesting, like the silicon.