Steampunk, folks seem to love it or to hate it. C’mon, you
gotta admit the guns and guitars are cool. Rust, steam, copper tubing,
clockwork gears, gauges, and brass-coated coolness appeal to the rebel in us all.
Steampunk is a vision of the future as seen through the eyes of the past.
Depending how you feel about shredding or shooting, this beautifully crafted
blend of form and function, these pseudo-Victorian mechanical “steampunk” style
guns and guitars should make you smile…or perhaps drool? Here are sexy as
sin and amazing modifications of contemporary technologies to fit the aesthetic
of Steampunk guns and guitars.
Abney Park Guitar
Abney Park is a Seattle band influenced by Steampunk.
Nathaniel Johnstone plays a guitar for Abney Park and influenced many Steampunk
enthusiasts to do more than listen to, sing along, or dance to their music.
Brass, gold, knobs, and clockwork gears are blended into a functioning fashion
of fantasy where past and future mix into this guitar.
Steampunk Guitar – Villianizer
This is a Jackson Rhoads V custom rebuilt guitar into a
steampunk look. With a name like Villianizer, you know it’s wicked slick and
can pull some cool tricks. All the fittings are brass and copper, with copper-plated
hardware and pickups, gauges, gears, pipes, welds, and a bucket of fake rust.
Cyberpunks, musicians, geeks who surf from the chair, many of us heard tales of
the dastardly looking Villianizer long ago. It’s still sweet though. But how
does it sound?
Have a listen to The Villianizer.
Organum Insolitus
This custom steampunk guitar, Organum Insolitus, was built
for the 2008 Jersey City Artists Studio Tour. Designed using elements of
steampunk, Organum Insolitus incorporates clockwork gears, hand hammered brass,
cloth wire and wood to show an alternate historical glimpse of a 19th century
electric guitar. The guitar features a television with Fresnel lens magnifier,
an onboard phaser and amplifier. Rather than use multiple pickups, the one humbucker
can be repositioned with the red faucet handle. The television, guitar, effects
and amplifier can all be patched through to each other in any configuration
using the patch bay on the front of the guitar. The pickup or television can
also be outputted through a standard 1/4″ cable to an external amplifier.
Steampunk Guitar Norwescon 32
This handcrafted masterpiece, The Elder Bass Guitar, was
created by Molly “Porkshanks” Friedrich. Porkshanks writes, “I am honored to
have been involved with creating art for the bands Abney Park, Mungus, The
Georgetown Orbits, and musician Michael ‘Creature.’ Steampunk creators that you
know best.” She is also a featured artist at the Museum Exhibition of Steampunk
Art, which recently opened and will run continually through February 21, 2010.
Steampunked Guitars
The beloved musical weaponized beast at the top is named
the Victorian Axe Cannon. On the top right is the Steampunk Hero. From Maker
Faire 2008, and pictured on the bottom left are two more steampunk guitars. The
Les Paul on the bottom right was tweaked and modded with gauges, copper, brass
and rust into an aesthetically pleasing steampunk-style guitar.
Steampunk Guitar Maker Faire 2008
What we like or don’t like is all about personal point of
view. Here is another guitar created with gears and steampunk bling. It was on
display at Maker Faire, snapped at this angle to give you a different
perspective. Maker Faire is an amazing event where engineering savvy and
childlike whimsy overlap as scores of techies, crafters, artists, and
visionaries gather in an imaginative playground. Tinkerers and backyard
experimenters interact in a massive show-and-tell and do-it-yourself steampunk
extravaganza. 
The Nautilus Steampunk Guitar
This modded masterpiece, The Nautilus, was
inspired by the film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The retrofuturistic design
of the Nautilus includes copper pipes, shell topped knobs, and a cool
flickering plasma effect porthole at its base. Sadly, the creator had to part
with his creation. This custom built steampunk guitar gained public attention
when it was sold on Ebay.
Here is the The Nautilus in action.
More Steampunk Guitars
Steampunk is popular with people in the punk, goth,
Industrial, cybergoth, gamer, and geek subcultures. So popular, in fact, there
is a growing movement towards steampunk as a lifestyle and culture. It has been
around in other forms and other names since the sci-fi subgenre of Jules Verne
and H.G. Wells. Here are more guitars with a Neo-Victorianism theme. Pictured
at top left is The Blackwind. The top right steampunk guitar can be found on
display outside a shop in Austin, Texas. The two steampunk guitars on the
bottom are re-engineered Statocasters made for Maker Faire.
DIY Steampunk Guitars
If you have a passion for guitars and music, then perhaps
you too would like to get in on the action with a DIY steampunk guitar. The top
left guitars are metal clad and steampunked by their creator to his degree of
satisfaction. In the top right photo, you see a steampunk pipebomb guitar heart
made with a Basswood body, patina paint, hardware, and surplus store supplies
all over it. On the middle left, cyberpunk and rebellion produced this
Steampunk guitar. The bottom guitar was built by one friend for another, both
steampunk fans. Each guitar is a one-of-a-kind creation and there is still
plenty of time before the holidays to DIY a steampunk guitar for you or a loved
one.
Steampunk guns
If you are into guns, then you will probably love these. If
not, then think sci-fi blended with the Victorian era. The sawed-off shotgun is
from Steamgearlab, a Lilith shotgun and prop for a steampunk movie. On the top
left, this little weapon is meant to represent Burlesque Steampunk or
Apocalyptic bullet belt garters. On the right are gunblades, a style of gun
often found in the steampunk culture. The bottom left photo is of a steampunk
sonic rifle. On the bottom right, the Howdah pistol was produced by sawing the
stock off a shotgun, then more or less of a hack job to the barrel.
Steampunk Revolvers
All of the guns above are considered steampunk-style
revolvers or pistols. From the retrofuturistic outlaw pistol to the the
gentleman’s revolver, the only limit to creating these steampunk props are your
imagination. Get ready to shoot ‘em up like a cowboy from the past time-traveling
to the future. Although not steam-powered, these weapons may be powered by the
souls of the enemies you cut down. Watch out for steampunk enthusiasts, whether
with a stone cold heart of ice or just having some good ole-fashioned fun, who
could draw and “shoot” in a blink of an eye.
Ray Guns
If you like retrofuturistic sidearms, check out these ray
guns. Tinkerbot seems an expert in pure Jules Verne creations, making weapons
for an imaginary universe. Some of these collectible fantasy weapons include
the Zenith which would take only one electro blast for piercing destruction. On
the top right, wow, the toggle switch, gauges and other little gizmows from an
old lamp would make short work of your enemies. Or lock and load the Sanitzer.
Not sure what kind of death follows after a ray coming from the Pneumatic
Aether Disperser, but it’s probably not a pretty sight. Herr Dokters created
the bottom right ray gun and some of his other creations are to be on display
at the Museum of Oxford Steampunk Art Exhibition.
Deadly Steampunk Guns
Beware scoundrels and villians! From left to right, all of
these steampunk guns are seriously wicked weapons, like the top Pirate Net Gun.
Do not tick off the owner of Viper, a pneumatic machine gun. What mechanically
inclined and avid pistoleer wouldn’t mind the fine company of a refined
automatic revolver with an old world charm like the Mateba Unica? The
Blunderbassoon has a forty watt range and is a weapon from a more civilized
age. The large barrel is a single barrel N2O Blunderbuss. Whether or not you
can tell from the bottom left photo, this steampunk sculpture art is a metal
rifle ray gun that is 36″ long and 13.5″ tall. But it was the Annihilator that
ranked as the judge’s favorite choice of shoulderarm with it’s indicator light
and a range of over 550 meters.
Specialty Steampunk Guns
If you run across a steampunk enthusiast with one of these
guns, be prepared to surrender or to die! The photo on top is a massive
steampunk ray gun. It’s unknown if the owner has it setup as a steampunk prop
or as a working secret weapon. The top left picture is of the Double Twelve.
It’s 10 feet long and a .12 gauge even if it appears to be capable of shooting
planes out of the sky. The steampunk shotgun on the right weighs in at 65 pounds!
Sure the enemy would be dead, if you could heft that sucker and fire it in
time. On the bottom left are shiny and classy steampunk Flintlock Saber
pistols. On the bottom right, Deuces Wild are a destructive set of twins
named Veracity and Florencia.
Indeed, steampunk culture and art seems to be everywhere.
We hope you enjoyed these sexy as sin steampunk guns -n- gutars.
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