Builders Challenge submission 2013Characterization of the constituent components...Organic cellulose components:Re-claimed and re-purposed Drew Estate Unico Serie cigar box body.Thrice layered and shaped half inch red oak planks combined by adhesion to form the neck and through body platform of the device.Brass components:A finely crafted eagle to facilitate orienting the device to an accurate magnetic compass heading and to dissipate accumulated spectral aurae.Impingement guards (re-claimed hearth screen frame) to shield the woodwork, electroluminescent conductor and wilkinson machines.Wire markers indicating the calculated positions required of a twenty four and three quarter inch tonal scale.Palatially ornate latchkey supporting the six ferrous tonal strands for acoustic emanations adjacent to the wilkinson machines.Supporting bridging arch (reclaimed drawer pull) supporting the ferrous strands at the body of the device, positioned twenty four and three quarters of an inch from the latchkey.Compass rose and associated gearing and cogs at the base of the scale, for automated magnetic polar orientation.Aural and photonic-ocular electromagnetic components:Six ferrous tonal strands correlated by gauge in an ascending tonal progression.High voltage electroluminescent conductor engaged by sonic activation arrayed adjacent to the ferrous tonal strands running the length and breadth of the device.Singular electro-magnetic coil activated by the motion of the ferrous tonal strands positioned to procure optimal EM resonance.Acoustic magnitude and resonance controllers with crystal adjustment knobs.The power and control devices are interred within an inebriating spiritous canister (re-claimed Jack Daniel's whiskey tin).
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I didn't see this one. Wow. I love it.
Wow, looks like an steampunk sculpture.