Record Album purses

I have a friend who buys a lot of old record albums at auctions and flea markets and we have been talking about making purses out of record albums to sell. I have been working on several designs. Today I looked on the internet and I found that there are several designs available. I would like to try some of these. I.m wondering how some of these people cut into the actual records without shattering them?

Record Album Cover purse

This past weekend I went to the Columbus, Ohio Art Festival. While I was there I saw this great purse, and I just had to have it! This is an actual album cover that's been laminated. This was the first record album I ever had and my Dad got it for me when I was in kindergarten, which was around 1964. I had this album for many years and played it over and over again.