At times when I've tried to explain the ideas behind some of the dressing parts that I'm designing, I usually see an all too familiar “deer eyes in the headlights” type of look on most people. That's the problem I suppose with having both a photographic memory and a self-aware ability to build things in my mind's workbench and see them before I tell my hands to go.   Some of the images in this gallery are really good examples of what I consider are missing bits and bobs out in the real world in any great quantity, let alone being easy to procure after spending many hours hunting through...

Some of the earliest things that I found just fun to dream up in the back of my mind- remember that imaginary workbench I told you about that for me I never stray far from throughout the day? I've always liked the older Edison bulb look to things, even if they aren't very efficient and didn't offer much then a slightly more stable bit of candlelight luminosity. They just impose an inventors imagination in me at times. When I was growing up I spent a good deal of time at Greenfield Village in Dearborn Michigan, and one of my favorite places to hang out was Edison's workshop.Over the years I've...

When I first started plotting my course when it came to reimagining and making parts available in the steampunk/machination line, one of the very first things I did was look at how difficult it was to procure real life examples- whether it be buying them new which is almost impossible, short of being limited to modern parts, or spending hours trying to hunt down ones that people were offering that could classify as antique, or vintage. The latter did not beckon me to any extended investment.One that stuck out for me was dials and gauges. Old steam and electrical equipment were littered with...

  It doesn't sound like much, but the first waxes coming out of a new setup are a mark of progress. Add that with a visit by a minion of a snake cult and some good music.   Not that I'm relaxing, but I am breathing a bit better because this whole result today marked the working completion of a whole chain of new, untested equipment, new methods until now worked out on paper only, and some serious sack sweat.   Let the molding and production onsalught begin.   After I have coffee.