“Nearly all spectacles are front heavy because of the lenses, which can cause them to slip down the nose,” Zack explains. “I realized that the heavy brass from the casings could be used on the temple tip – the two parts of a glasses’ frame that run from the eye rims are called temples. When you add weight to the temple tip, the frame stays on the wearers’ face.”

The headstamp markings that show who manufactured the bullets are removed with a lathe. This leaves concentric marks on the surface that look a lot like the grooves on a vinyl record – a nice nod to the Vinylize brand’s USP. The brass casing is separated from the rim bearing the headstamp and melted into ingots. Next, the rims are fitted onto the acetate temple tip of the frame and crimped into place. After the frame has been assembled, it’s rhodium plated. Rhodium is a highly reflective silver-white metal extremely resistant to corrosion, which makes it tough and hypoallergenic.

A fascination with guns and bullets has long been part of rock and roll, country and hip-hop culture, which fits perfectly with the Vinylize brand.

The expression “Number One with a Bullet” was and may still be used by Billboard magazine, the bible of the American record industry. If a record on its albums or singles charts was selling so many copies that it looked like it would become a hit, the magazine put a bullet symbol beside the name and the artists’ details.

Strictly speaking, a record couldn’t be number one with a bullet because it had gone straight into the charts at the top. The phrase was used to describe an album or single so outstanding that it was a good as you could get.

Highly appropriate for Vinylize. Especially as AC/DC boast “Number one with a bullet, I’m a power pack” in the song “Back In Black,” from the landmark album of the same name used to make the classic Vinylize AC/DC collection.

Countless rock and rollers and hip-hop songs reference bullets and guns. Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Gimme Back My Bullets” and AC/DC’s “Gimme A Bullet” from the album Powerage are just two that spring immediately to mind. On the hip-hop side of things, 1987’s “9mm Goes Bang” by Boogie Down Productions says it all.

The list of rock and rollers and hip-hop stars who’ve posed with guns to show off their outlaw credentials includes Kurt Cobain and Tupac Shakur, who both died by the bullet. Lemmy, frontman of ferocious rockers Mötorhead, wore an iconic bullet belt until he shuffled off this mortal coil after years of hard, hard living.