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This is a fantastic doohickey Herr Dokter, I want one! If you were selling them I'd gladly pay around £40 or 50 for one! (maybe even 60 if I happened to have plentiful amounts of currency at my disposal) You could make them more unique by using a different horn for each one e.g. a modified metal funnel or perhaps a fancy lamp shade painted and used upsidedown to resemble a real gramophone. That would give them an edge; each one being slightly different. Please do tell us if you do start selling them!  yes do if you do and i could make the andver for them too it would look really cool |
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« Reply #26 on: September 04, 2007, 02:00:35 am » |
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Very nice piece. I've been meaning to make something like this myself. Any suggestions where I might acquire a crank?
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« Reply #27 on: September 04, 2007, 04:08:03 am » |
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What a great little showpiece to have on my desk at work to drown out the muzak coming from the overhead system.
Congratulations on a beautiful job well done.
If I had the time I would love to borrow your ideas but alas my time is given to many other projects. I shall put this in my journal for future reference.
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« Reply #28 on: September 04, 2007, 09:25:53 am » |
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Many thanks for the alert Captain Takayana, if I do consider producing more I may look in the regions of the electronic stockists.
Thanks also for your enthusiasm Jingling Joseph. Today I become very busy for a year, but a money spinner would be welcome! It's also good to know that there would be interest beyond an exact reproduction of what you see above.
Sir Theodore, of course you may feature the Gramophone. If there's any more picture angles or information I can get you, do let me know.
This is all very interesting!
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« Reply #29 on: September 04, 2007, 10:49:04 am » |
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It looks like someone earned an entry in MAKE: Blog
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« Reply #30 on: September 04, 2007, 01:22:50 pm » |
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Beautiful work!
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« Reply #31 on: September 04, 2007, 08:06:30 pm » |
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Very nice piece. I've been meaning to make something like this myself. Any suggestions where I might acquire a crank?
Thrift/Secondhand stores usually have a surplus of cheap manual meat grinders with suitable cranks that are easily removable. |
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« Reply #32 on: September 04, 2007, 09:47:30 pm » |
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Many thanks for the alert Captain Takayana, if I do consider producing more I may look in the regions of the electronic stockists.
Thanks also for your enthusiasm Jingling Joseph. Today I become very busy for a year, but a money spinner would be welcome! It's also good to know that there would be interest beyond an exact reproduction of what you see above.
Sir Theodore, of course you may feature the Gramophone. If there's any more picture angles or information I can get you, do let me know.
This is all very interesting!
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« Reply #33 on: September 10, 2007, 10:25:20 am » |
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Very nice piece. I've been meaning to make something like this myself. Any suggestions where I might acquire a crank?
Thrift/Secondhand stores usually have a surplus of cheap manual meat grinders with suitable cranks that are easily removable. And I've seen some purely beautiful cranks in the keys section of the http://www.timesavers.com/ catalogue as well. Really must commend you Herr Dokter, a very fine creation indeed. |
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« Reply #34 on: April 15, 2008, 12:39:28 pm » |
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I should point out my pigeon-german name spelling. There is a Herr Doktor on the forum- a true gent, whose spelling is much better than mine. You could allways say that you`re a swiss doctor... In swiss-german, you' d probably write it Dokter - at least that' s the way you say it around here. Magnificent work by the way... I' ll have to do something similiar if I ever get hooked on portable music again. |
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Thread necromancy! Mostly because I've got ideas for a similar arrangement (coffee-grinder, car horn, MP3 player) slung in the hub on my penny-farthing.
I wonder if anyone could point a fellow towards a power-amp kit that will amplify an MP3 player to useful outdoor levels without being ginormous?
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« Reply #36 on: October 31, 2008, 01:01:06 pm » |
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Thread necromancy! Mostly because I've got ideas for a similar arrangement (coffee-grinder, car horn, MP3 player) slung in the hub on my penny-farthing.
I wonder if anyone could point a fellow towards a power-amp kit that will amplify an MP3 player to useful outdoor levels without being ginormous?
Here you go : http://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?menuno=12538Maplin have simple electronic kits from 3W to 200W, I'm sure you'll find something of use (note some of the kits are mono, so you would require two for stereo sound). You should be able to find similar items at RS or online electronics supply stores (just google for them, there's lots).  SS |
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« Reply #37 on: October 31, 2008, 02:06:41 pm » |
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Lovely, there's a Maplin in town so that's easy. Thanks.
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