Thread: Steampunk Build

The starting lumber is an old mahogany casting form:

That's nice, music is all about patterns.

The tuner knobs are made from skeleton keys:


Turning the tap knob will move the pickups forward and back:

Some gear mojo:




These will carry the pickup wires and light organ wires to the control box:


Dual Fretboards:

Fretboards installed:




This microphone will control the light organ, allowing the LEDs to respond to the music being played on the instrument:


Light organ built & control box started:

Control box started. The candelabra socket happened to thread perfectly on the plumbing connector so i've let this coincidence decide its placement. The socket has been hollowed out to allow the light organ wires to run up into a hollowed out S6 light bulb that will contain the LEDs



Control box progress. Controls are series/parallel toggle, volume, tone, and light organ on/off.


Input Jack:

That is seriously cool looking. And actually functional steampunk bits, not just decoration!

You realise that you'll need a chick wearing aviator goggles to display the finished product?

Originally Posted by Master Splinter

You realise that you'll need a chick wearing aviator goggles to display the finished product?

And a leather flying helmet.
That looks great Would love to hear it. Can you post a sound clip?

Thanks guys. I will certainly get a video sound sample up as soon as its done and i have a little time to practice playing it.

What a fun build!!

Man that would scare the tang out of most rednecks and ardent traditionalists
I mean, they could have made a perfectly good moonshine stil out of all that metal
Then again, from the looks of it, it possibly does that too, right?
I just hope you grounded it with industrial power cable
Looks awesome dude. I bet it sounds "unique" too.
Its good to see people doing something different,,,, now that's inventive-ness-ing-ness!

Bump.

Originally Posted by Jugtones

Thanks guys. I will certainly get a video sound sample up as soon as its done and i have a little time to practice playing it.

I like the build and I'm very interested in how it sounds.

Finally getting back into this...

Experimental pickup... on wheeeels!

Brilliant, inspiring but be careful of those Morlocks when it shunts you too far froward in time.

Jim

Originally Posted by Jugtones

Dude, are they the "coils" in the grippy clips your planning on using?
If so, the wire is waaaaaaay too thick, should be near abouts to 42AWG.
Plus you need around 6000 winds per coil,,,, typically.
Looks like you only have about 50 winds on the long one.
Im not having a winge, just don't wanna see you go to all that trouble for no output.
It'll be interesting to see what happens though.
Be sure to have it streaming live on video, for prosperity of course