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Published: 2009-01-25 15:46:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 1786; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 44
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its been an age since i actually posted up a vacuum tube here! what's with that? i guess i fear that people might get bored with them, and that's why i rarely post up 2 photos of the same thing.I'm trying to actually post a few things here that are up on etsy now.. it doesn't usually happen. This to me is quite Cyberpunk but since its been used by so many steampunks i guess it is a bit of both. this one is listed here: [link]
where there are a few more photos as well.
There is something really amazing about these wonderful vacuum tubes, and I've been lucky enough to get a few of this particular model with the fantastic silvery grid. Originally they would have been used in electronics - televisions, radios etc. Once they were even used to make computers.
I designed a "hardware" chain - using various bits of standard, modern hardware and some silvery link beads. I chose some silver tone hardware that echo the round hole in the grid. I also love this tube because of the coppery red colour as the wires go through the glass!
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Oh, I have no words for this, but
I live here where this piece takes me
in my head.
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Hey. . . that looks kinda familiar! *looks down on neck* oh yeah
this is a bit different than mine though right? the metal is shinier. still love mine though ^^
you wouldn't happen to be working on some more of your clockwork pieces would you? those are some of my favorites along with the tubes ^^
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hehehe ....nope quite a bit different really. Yours also has a grid (not all of them do) but the hole in yours are quite regular in size. This one is more like a screen... and has a different "getter" which is a plate in it.
Yeup! i'm working to get a bunch of new things done. Hopefully sometime this weekend. Usually it goes up on my etsy site first though - so if you see something there let me know first, k ?
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wow these tubes really do have beauty to them!! And i love the idea of using hardware in the chain nice work!
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Thank you
i call them my industrial Evolution series - from manufacture to use to a basement in a junk shop to me and then to jewelry.
its all evolving!
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I think the vacuum tubes are awesome, I was hoping to get some for a project. Where do you get such cool ones without logos and junk like most on ebay?
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well.. you can scrub the logos off! All these had the logos - which tend to wear off anyway - so i scrub them with a wire brush.
taadaa!
i lucked out and got most of mine from a local man who had a bunch (and has some more when he finds them) in his basement. they were pretty gross so i had to scrub them anyway.
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Thanks, I wasn't sure they came off that easily!
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I just love the vacuum tube ones! They're just so much fun.
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Thanks rain! they are fun aren't they 
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yes! that's what i like about this one. i wish i could find a bunch more like it but many are plain. i like the silvery metal
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aw thanks Audrey! i feel the same about your works!
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Ooo, I love your vacuum tube necklaces, and this one is no exception!
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oh me too! lol
we ca fly around together
they were really dirty when i first got them - gross - but i clean them up!
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Wonderful job on the cleaning, then. Sooo shinyyy. XD
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