Without getting all verklempt and making Herr von Slatt too uncomfortable, I gotta tell ya that work like his new steampunk monitor (to go along with his RSS sounder and keyboard) is what makes me happy to come into work every morning (albeit just down the hall from my bedchambers). One of the many things I love about Jake’s work is the little surprise or two always contained within the projects, inspired little gems. This one has a number of them, perhaps most awesome of which are the “chime levers” he installed on the underside of the monitor frame to trigger the monitor controls underneath the monitor itself (see image below). ingenious. Looking at the base, you’d swear it was marble. It isn’t. It’s a *photo* of marble that Jake found in a Google search, printed out, and glued onto wood.
The whole project was inspired by some decorative gas lamp arms he bought from the “mad salvager” at Sequential Glass. They form nifty decorative elements on the bottom corners of the monitor frame.
As usual, Jake includes a video tutorial, this one on how to do mirror image transfers on templates. For this project, he used this technique to draw out some brass curly-q’s for the gold-painted aluminum angle stock he used for the frame.
Awesome job, Jake! Let’s see: you’ve done a keyboard, a monitor, an RSS telegraph sounder… Is that case mod I smell?
