About reVinyled
Built on Music. Backed by a Jeweler’s Hands.
I’m Leah Coonan, the Philadelphia jeweler and maker behind reVinyled. Long before I began cutting damaged records, I was learning how things are designed, fabricated, repaired and finished at a jeweler’s bench.
The vinyl came later. The making came first.
The Person Behind the Work
Handmade From Rescued Vinyl Records in Philadelphia.
reVinyled grew out of a professional jewelry practice, a lifetime around music and a habit of seeing possibilities in materials other people overlook. Every pair still passes through the same hands-on decision making I learned at the bench, where proportion, finish, balance and detail matter.
Before reVinyled
I Learned the Trade by Showing Up.
Around 2000, I started knocking on doors on Philadelphia’s historic Jewelers’ Row because I wanted to learn from people who actually knew the trade.
I learned wax carving and model making, metalwork, soldering, repairs, fabrication and finishing while working around experienced jewelers, casters, setters and polishers. Those years became the foundation for my own custom jewelry practice.
That training is still present in reVinyled. The material changed. The standards did not.
reVinyled is made with jewelry-making skills applied to a material most people would never expect to see at a jeweler’s bench.
Side B
Then Came One Damaged 45.
The 2008 recession slowed my custom jewelry work and made precious-metal projects harder to produce. I still needed to make something, and one day I had a damaged 45 and my jewelry tools sitting within reach.
I put a saw blade through the record and started experimenting. A handmade template eventually landed across both the label and the black vinyl, framing the two together. That accidental composition became the visual foundation of reVinyled.
I made myself a simple round pair with an orange label and wore them while walking from South Philadelphia toward Jewelers’ Row. Three strangers stopped me along the way to ask about them. I stopped for more damaged records and kept going.
I did not set out to manufacture demand. People recognized something in the record before I had even built the business.
The Track List
A Few Stops Along the Way.
reVinyled did not arrive fully formed. It grew out of years of music, making, travel, trade experience and learning what kind of business I wanted to build.
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1994–95
Found My People
Live music became a doorway into community, creativity and the scene that would shape how I understood connection.
1999
Making on the Road
Jewelry tools, wire, stones and supplies traveled cross-country with me while I was actively making and finding my direction.
2000–01
Jewelers’ Row
I began learning directly from Philadelphia tradespeople and building the bench skills that still shape the work today.
2008
First Damaged 45
A scratched record, a jeweler’s saw and an orange label became the starting point for reVinyled.
2009+
Shops + Shows
Customers, markets and independent retailers helped the work grow through discovery, conversation and word of mouth.
2023
reVinyled Rebuilt
A clearer identity, stronger infrastructure and renewed focus moved the brand into its next chapter.
Today
Wholesale + Beyond
Museum stores, independent retailers, custom work and a growing wholesale program are carrying the story forward.
More Than Raw Material
The Music Is Why People Connect.
I grew up around records. My dad taught me how to play and care for them. My mom brought the dancing. Album artwork, label graphics and the physical ritual of listening were part of everyday life long before reVinyled existed.
That is why I do not treat vinyl as anonymous black plastic. An artist, label, song title, familiar typeface or flash of color can bring back a concert, a wedding song, a family memory or an entire era.
In a shop, that recognition gives customers a reason to pick something up and tell somebody else what it reminds them of. The product starts the conversation. The customer finishes it.
Creative Reuse
A Record Can Be Finished Playing Without Being Finished.
reVinyled begins with damaged, scratched, skipping and otherwise unplayable records. Instead of treating that material as disposable, I keep finding ways for it to remain useful, visible and connected to the culture it came from.
As each record is cut down, smaller designs and other uses allow more of the material to keep moving through the studio. The goal is not to make inflated environmental promises. It is to use what already exists with intention and keep asking what else it can become.
That commitment to creative reuse has also connected my work with TerraCycle. reVinyled artwork is displayed at TerraCycle’s Trenton campus, a relationship that fits naturally alongside the way I think about materials, art and possibility.
A Track Record Behind the Records
Built in the Real World, One Relationship at a Time.
reVinyled grew through customers, shops, museums, markets, teaching and word of mouth long before there was a formal wholesale portal.
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Museum + Retail Shops
reVinyled has been carried by museum stores, music-focused retailers and independent shops, including repeat wholesale relationships.
GRAMMY Museum
The GRAMMY Museum L.A. Live became a repeat wholesale account, placing the work in a space built around music history.
Maker + Teacher
My practice has included teaching jewelry at Fleisher Art Memorial as well as years of professional bench and custom work.
Still Independent
The business has grown without separating the product from the maker, the material or the story that made it worth carrying.
What Comes Next
The Future Is Still Handmade.
The long-term vision for reVinyled is not to replace skilled people with automated production. It is to train people, create meaningful work and pass forward the kind of hands-on knowledge other makers once shared with me. Technology can support the business. Human skill stays at the center of the product.
“I would rather teach someone a trade than replace them with a machine.”
— Leah Coonan Founder, reVinyled
The Next Chapter
Bring reVinyled Into Your Shop.
Browse handcrafted wholesale collections made to give customers something original to discover, recognize and talk about.