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Comment by beStillroy on March 16, 2011 at 12:27pm

Hose Clamp...

Thanks...

the Bridge is a piece of a drawer pull from an Airstream camper.

Comment by David Davies on March 16, 2011 at 12:14pm

very cool. i like the nut only i cant remember what the hell its called

Comment by beStillroy on March 16, 2011 at 12:04pm

Comment by beStillroy on March 16, 2011 at 11:02am

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=100001460965686&aid=34975 Kold-King

Comment by Edgel R Gillespie II on March 1, 2011 at 5:10am

Just amazing that there are so many who love the borg scene. SteamPunk is right out of this world, introduced to the general public with the StarTrek series when the Borg were first introduced. Nothing like a wild CBG Punked out to the max.

Love it, Maximo

Comment by Matte Resist on February 15, 2011 at 5:19am

very cool Wally!

Comment by John Wendell on February 14, 2011 at 9:46pm

Hey Wally....very cool..I knew it would be ...very steampunk too....didn't get a chance to comment over in the recycle contest..glad I found it here!

Comment by ProfWaldo on February 14, 2011 at 7:58pm

The appeal for me is like Shawn, the mad scientist and I've always been a tinker.

I've always loved old machinery,gears, levers, cogs, gotta' have 'em. But I especially like how the old stuff was made so ornately when it didn't need to be. Then there's the fact that I have an addiction for anything brass or copper.

In short, beautiful mechanisms turn me on. Here's some crappy quality photos of my latest build. I'm callin' it a Recyclophonic Melody Transducer. for lack of a better word at the moment. Very cool stuff in this here group, very cool.  

Comment by Scott Winburn on February 9, 2011 at 5:29am

7D9887 (Time Slider):

Description:
    7D9887, aka "Time Slider", is a lap slide guitar with a few unique features. The most obvious of these is the autonomous bass string. It is off-set, has a slightly shorter scale-length, and considerably lower action than the other strings. The purpose of this setup is to allow the player to comfortably fret the bass string with his or her thumb while using a slide at the same location on the other strings.

    Another unique feature is the mobile pickup, giving the player to an additional way to control tone. Turning the tap handle moves the pickup.

    Finally, a much less less obvious feature of 7D9887 is its naïve application of general relativity to quantum mechanics -- the ability to send sound waves very slightly back in time. At the core of the instrument a heavy atomic nucleus rests inside a strong magnetic field, causing it to elongate it into a cylinder. Sound waves generated by the strings are then projected across this exceptionally dense spinning cylinder, effectively sending the signal approximately 687 milliseconds back in time. By amplifying this time distorted signal along with the signal at its creation we achieve a sort of reversed echo effect. This can be a bit disconcerting at first as the player hears each note just before he or she plays it, followed immediately by the same note as it is actually played. Under most interpretations of quantum mechanics this does not violate causality and is therefore safe for use by anyone with more than 687 milliseconds of time to kill.

For more pictures, a full materials list, and a PDF containing 30 or so progress shots taken during the building of the instrument:
7D9887 on Jugtones.com

Comment by Andrew Carrell on January 7, 2011 at 10:44pm

This bass I built might be considered "Steampunk-ish" by some. It's kinda borderline, but I like it...

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