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Mechanical Spider No 20 IIby *AMechanicalMind

Artisan Crafts / Metal Work

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This is a Mechanical Spider hand assembled from recycled watch parts including gears, watch plates, winding stems, and spring barrels.

Spider No 20 presents a new design for my spider creations. Rather than the body being just soldered together stems and spring barrels, it consists of a chassis-like assembly made with watch plates connected by stems. Onto this chassis are soldered the spring barrels and stems for eyes, the legs, the light bulb and a few gears for added mechanical effect.

Each leg consists of four different watch winding stems that have been cut down to size and soldered at the joint. Each leg has three soldered joints.

After the legs have been soldered individually, they are grouped into sides, and each side is soldered together. The sides are then soldered to the body chassis.

Therefore, the legs themselves take thirty four soldered joints.

The chassis on this particular spider has around eighteen solder points, for a total of fifty-two different areas that need to be joined together.

There is no glue or resin to be found in the piece...everything is soldered into place with metal. This is a one of a kind work of art, never to be exactly reproduced.

He measures 52mm wide by 50mm front to back by 22mm tall and comes with a 3" by 4" glass display dome with wood base. He is extremely fragile and should be handled sparingly and very gently, and is most definitely not a toy.

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~jorrus Mar 31, 2013 Professional Writer

You could market these at tabletop wargamers as well...
these are so awesome; what are the margins on these things? Is it cost effective to make them at home?

*AMechanicalMind Mar 31, 2013 Professional Artisan Crafter

They are around 50mm diameter, some smaller, some larger.

They would be cost effective to make at home, as the parts themselves are not that expensive. It's more about the investment of time, effort, and frustration in making them.