Every now and again, here at the Steampunk Workshop, we get email that totally makes our day.  Sometimes its simply a note from someone who has discovered Steampunk for the first time - or more precisely discovered that there was, in fact, a name for this thing that has already been passion for most of their life.

But sometimes the notes we receive really get to us because they are about real people, romance, passion and of course making things and that is our Raison d'être.  This was in deed the case this morning when I opened my mail and found a note that began:

Liam Mcnamara built The Clockworks for the Burning Man festival waaay back in 2005. A 3 story tall all wooden, working, click-tocking time-keepin' clocktower, and then burned it to the ground at the end of the week. Yes, even the clockwork gears were CNC routed out of wood.