If this was the sort of stuff the Steampunk crowd was making, I'd eat my hat (with tabasco sauce) and sign up immediately at the nearest Steampunk recruitment office.

Unfortunately as Jake points out, they can only gaze enviously from afar before going back to hot-gluing old cogs onto discarded welding goggles.

Ooh! I missed the Phillips screw.

Head now removed.

Wait a minute, this can't be steampunk.

The creator has demonstrated skill and sensitivity for his materials. The object looks functional too.
In short, it is a work of art.

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Calling himself a Steampunk is fine with me. He can call himself whatever he wants.

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Shouldn't you be gluing some cogs onto an old radio or something?