This do-it-yourself steampunk guide shows you how to create your own retro-futuristic gear!

"Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos: A Maker's Guide to Creating Modern Artifacts" is filled with hands-on instructions for making one-of-a-kind steampunk devices, jewelry, and fashion items. In this book, steampunk bodger Thomas Willeford takes you by the hand and guides you through the creation of a variety of customizable steampunk projects. The book provides information on background, tools, and raw materials, then leads you, step by step, through 8 innovative projects.

"Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos"Answers the all-important, often-asked question, "Where do I get those parts?"Demonstrates how to use the simplest tools to create the coolest resultsExplains how to look at an object and see what it "really wants to be"Provides a variety of step-by-step, affordable projects that you can customize to match your own visionImparts the aesthetics of steampunk design so the project doesn't end up looking like a "pile of cogs"

About the Author

Thomas Willeford has degrees in physics, history, and art. His alter ego, Lord Archibald "Feathers" Featherstone, has displayed his work, which blurs the line between art and engineering, throughout the United States and Europe for years. Willeford's work (including the E-pod) was recently featured in the exhibit, "Device and Contraptions Extraordinaire" at the Ashmolean University of Oxford museum of the History of Science. He has made costume pieces for Abney Park, Beautiful Deadly Children, and GhostFire. Willeford has been called, "The most photographed person in the Steampunk community." He has been featured in Steampunk Bizarre, the BBC, MTV, the Steampunk World's Faire, Whitby Gothic Weekend, Glasgow Marker's Faire, Pirate magazine, and the Daily Mail.

Table of Contents

Foreword -- By Kaja Foglio with illustrations by Phil Foglio Introduction Part the First: Full Steam Ahead Chapter 1: What Is Steampunk? Chapter 2: Tools of the Modern Mad Scientist Chapter 3: The Art and Ph9losophy of Scavenging Chapter 4: Gear Mining--Or, How to Dissect a Cuckoo Part the Second: Getting Steamed: Projects for Makers, Modders, and Assemblagers Chapter 5: Aetheric Ray Deflector Solid Brass Goggles Chapter 6: Calibrated Indicator Gauges Chapter 7: Professor Grimmelore's Ferromagnetic Self-Scribing Automated Encyclopedia (or, The Steampunk Book Drive Chapter 8: Dr. Visbaun's High Voltage Electro-Static Hand Cannon Chapter 9: Tesla-pod Chrono-Static Insulating Field Generator (or, The Mobile Device Enclosure) Chapter 10: Altitude Mask with Integrated Respiratory Augmentation, as Issued to H.M. Royal Aeronautical Corps Chapter 11: Voortman's Armored Pith Helmet, from London's Finest Purveyor of Defensive and Deflective Haberdashery Chapter 12: Professor Grimmelore's Mark I Superior Replacement Arm with Integrated Gatling Attachment Part the Third: Hastily Scribbled Laboratory Notes Appendix A: This Way Lies Madness Appendix B: Dramatis Personae Final Thoughts Patterns from Chapter 5 Index