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Dave Geertsen’s Steampunk Motorcycle
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Quote from L.A. Bike Show Website "What is it? Some bike contest entries defied classification and description…" We know what it is, don't we folks? It's Steampunk! This is the home of Dave Geertsen's home made metal sculpture on wheels,the wheels are straight but his custom motorcycles are anything
Steampunk Strat Original Artwork
This is my original artwork for the Steampunk Strat – Right click and choose "Save Image As" to download a copy.
Francophonic Steampunk Forum
Célia writes: I am the creator of a French speaking steampunk forum. We are trying across this forum, to gather together people interested in this movement. We talk as well about litterature, cinéma, music than about workshops and clothes…After less than 3 weeks of activity, we already have 112 members.
Work Corset – Inspired by Carhartt Work Clothing
San Francisco artist Nifer Fahrion created this work clothing inspired corset to wear at Burning Man this year. I particularly like the cordless drill holster, the one I have clips to my belt and does nothing but pull my pants down. From Nifer’s site: For the past year, I’ve desired
Eamespunk Recumbent Trike
Wow! This bent-wood ‘bent is beautiful! Click through for a build log – english translation is here.
Skylights for Jake’s School Bus RV Conversion
About two years ago I found these lovely skylights at our town dump, they had been removed from someones roof but were in otherwise excellent shape and they even included the manufacturer's installation instructions! I grabbed them with the intent of installing them in our school bus conversion RV.
DIY RV Macerator Pump
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When you own an RV one of the things you have to deal with is dumping the waste tanks at the end of your stay in a campground. This is generally not a big deal, you pull up to the dump station, usually located along the driveway on your
Steampunk’d Wacom Tablet
Dan writes: This whole thing started when I dropped my graphire3 wacom tablet. Everything worked just fine, but the case cracked and would not stay together. After some soul searching I decided that since I couldn’t use the thing in its current condition I might as well try and
Steampunk Vacuum Tube Guitar Amp
A Steampunk guitar amp to go with the Steampunk Strat! I just finished this project for Nathaniel Johnstone of Abney Park and you will get to see its debut with Nathan and several other musicians and performers including the Deshret Dance Company at the Carnivale Mechanique at this year’s Maker
Retro Cellphone Handset
Here’s a project of mine from a few years ago, it’s an LG mobile ’embedded’ into an old Western Electric model 500 handset. The Bell Model 500 desk phone manufactured for decades by Western Electric is an icon of Twentieth Century product design. The evolution of the Model 500’s