Modifying headphones to fit iPhone, my results - add your own

Like many others, I'm sure, I decided to try cutting some of the rubber away on my headphones' jacks so they would fit my iPhone properly. I thought I'd post my results and see if anyone else had experience with which headphones lend themselves more and less to this option.
I tried modifying my Koss Porta Pro headphones first, and it worked out extremely well. The rubber is very soft and the spot where it becomes thinner is a perfect place to cut, almost looks like it was suppose to be like that. They fit snugly in the iPhone now and sound great. Unfortunately using them with an iPhone doesn't make them look any less like they're from the 80s.
I tried the same technique with my Sony Street Style foldable headphones with less success. My first attempt (again at the spot where they get thinner) apparently wasn't far enough back and the jack fit in, but only at one angle (with the cord facing the hold switch), and if rotated they would unplug. I tried again and eventually got it cut far back enough to work, but there were two layers of plastic, and the bottom layer is much much tougher to get through, also the result wasn't very pretty. They do fit snugly in the iPhone now, and still sound fine, but it wasn't nearly as easy.
If anyone has tried this on a pair of Bose Around Ear headphones I would love to know how that went. I'm thinking about getting a pair but I don't really want to carry around one of those Belkin adapters.
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I forgot I have a pair of Sennheiser PX200s. They have a straight plug that looks pretty skinny so I thought they might not need to be modified, no dice though. The rubber is similar to that of the Koss headphones so the cut was easy, since it's a round straight jack you can just roll the jack under a knife to make a straight cut, but there's no real guide for where to do it because it's all uniform thickness. In the process I cut some sort of small clear plastic piece underneath, hopefully it wasn't critical (heh), but they still feel sturdy and sound fine, and of course fit in the iPhone now.

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