So I 3D printed out the Dtube earrings yesterday using my Prusa 3d printer. I made a written and a video tutorial before, so you can check them out if you haven't done that yet.

I am really happy how they look like now. I had a bit different view of how the earrings will look like with the beads, but surprisingly they look even better than what I had in mind. If I stare at the earrings for a long time, I think they somehow look like jellyfish.

Printing the Dtube earrings took the Prusa 1 hour and 45 minutes. I used red filament and this red filament is not a PLA filament but a nGen filament. Don't ask me what that is :-D. The only thing I know is that the 3d printer needs to be pre-heated between 220 and 240 degrees Celsius, so hotter than PLA filament. There is a bit of warping going on, but it's not a big thing because you hang them on your ears, so the warping wouldn't even be recognised.

So these are the supplies and tools that I needed to make these stunning Dtube earrings:

Fresh 3D printed Dtube earrings
Large black beads
Small red beads
Wire cutter
Chain nose plier
Round nose plier
Earring wires
Jump rings
Head pins

So I started with the middle part, I call it the Abacus. I connected two head pins because I don't have the required wire for it, so I had to find a creative solution. The Abacus has 10 black beads. Such a coincidence! Then I attached the earring wires.

It wasn't easy to connect the head pins to the Dtube earrings because I did't have much space to close the ends with my chain nose plier/round nose plier.

The next step was attaching the jump rings. Luckily I had enough, otherwise I had to go to the city in the cold to buy jump rings.

Then I attached the beads. I wanted to attach only red beads, but somehow it didn't look right. So I started with the black beads and connected those with red beads.

So the beads are done and I had to attach them to the jump rings. I was thinking: "Why did I make Dtube earrings with 9 holes on each earring in the first place?This is so time consuming."