More Pics of Latest Work

Here's a few more pics

Latest Work

Here are some pics of my latest creation titled "In the beginning". It will be on ebay soon, maybe. There's some pretty intense work on this one. The clock is a real mechanical wind up alarm clock. I tore it apart, cut the face out and made the one you see so the internal gears are exposed. I mounted it on an antique lamp base and added a flexable goose neck with a 90 degree dog leg from 2 other lamps. The shade is made from a copper bowl from India and a cap from even yet another lamp. I mounted a green LED bulb inside the clock face so you can see the gears movements and I wired it with a second switch on the base to be used as a night light. It has a reproduction Edison bulb (not included when sold). The 5 gears around the outside are exploding from the slits they made in the brass body of the clock itself in tribute to the artist Roger Wood's artistic clock style from Klockwerks, because I admire his work. I hope you enjoy it.

New Hobby

In the last couple of months or so I've started a new hobby building steampunk lamps. Steampunk is a artistic subculture that's hard to describe.

Wikipedia says steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s.

Steampunk involves a setting where steam power is still widely used—usually Victorian era Britain or "Wild West"-era United States—that incorporates elements of either science fiction or fantasy.
Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology, or futuristic innovations as Victorians might have envisioned them, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art.

This technology includes such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the contemporary authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld and China Mieville.

Other examples of steampunk contain alternative history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace's Analytical Engine.

I would simply say steampunk could be described either as a past that could have been, or a Victorian present.

Now that we've established what steampunk is, here's a few pictures of some of my lamps.