Scaffold / industrial

This piercing started to be done in Australia in roughly 1997 to 1998 and was known as the Scaffold due to the placement being across the Scaphoid of the ear. This was not as common back then but quickly increased in popularity. Then by 2001 the American influence hit Australia and the name Industrial became the name of this piercing which was a play on the term Scaffold. No longer relating it to the medical term. It became a trendy piercing and people experimented with different angles and even multiple scaffold/Industrial piercings.

This piercing had it’s own evolution with piercers trying different methods one of the unsuccessful methods we saw some places use was to do two piercings separately and then attempt to put a bar through them once healed. This was generally not good because the piercings would heal on different angles and so the bar would not go neatly through them or when put through it was putting so much pressure on the ear that it would irritate and become quite painful.

At Body Pleasure Piercing we always did this piercing by inserting one needle directly through both piercing sites lining it up carefully was the key to a good scaffold / Industrial and placing it so that the bar does not rub on the scaphoid.

By 2004 the industrial jewellery started to be more creative and shapes, stripes and logo bars came onto the market. In 2019 we have a vast array of jewellery from tribal to pretty jewels and crystals to use in this piercing which is still a popular one for both genders. Check out our gallery to see just some different Scaffold / Industrial piercings that we have done over the years.

There have also been several combinations of industrial piercings including transverse/ vertical piercings going from the central top of the helix and down through the back of the conch area and ending behind the lobe.