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Another picture taken by of my steampunk hand.Related content
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This is fantastic. I'm a puppet maker and to see this kind of work is great. I love the shape of the hand using wooden joints and steel cable. Well done. I love it.
And the Jacko pose is fab.
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do you have an instructionnal video for this, im making something similar and i would like to see how you went about making it.
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im trying to build something similar, but the one thing im having trouble with is the rigging, how does it work?
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What do you mean by the rigging? Are you talking about the wires that close the fingers?
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yea, im just not sure how that would work
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Well when you are designing your own hand you need to accomplish two things. Your mechanism needs to close the hand but then it needs to also automatically open the hand. So each finder has two wires in it. One wire runs on the palm side of the finger and it goes from my actual finger to the end of the animatronic one, running through all the finger joints on the way. This wire closes the finger. The second wire runs along the back of the hand. I runs from a piston mounted behind the finger to the tip. This wire works to straighten the finger back out. So as I pull on the cord that runs to my actual hand it curls the finger and this causes the other cord to compress the piston so that when I release pressure the finger will straighten back out.
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thank you so much. also do you think it would be possible to put a tube or something around the whole thing so that no wires are showing?
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Sure, there isn't any reason you couldn't. I just left mine exposed because I liked the look of them.
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Brilliant!
I'm new here, and this is my first view of the kinds of things that are uploaded. However, I am a woodworker, and I am really impressed by the craftmanship in this.
Would you mind telling me what the rods are made of? They look to be small diameter copper, but I assume that they need to be flexible so I am not sure.
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The cable running through the fingers is just steel aircraft cable. If you mean the copper pieces behind the fingers that is made from copper pipe, brass door stops, springs, and finishing washers (the raised curvy ones.) They work together as a piston that pulls on a second cord running through the fingers to straighten them back out. You can see what I'm talking about a little more easily in my deviation "Thriller."
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With lots of patience and practice
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can yo send blue prints or sometjing i need asweet propp for halloween
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I unfortunately don't have blue prints. This was a one off project so I did not take the time to do any legitimate blueprints for it. Also this took me about 2 months to make. Now, I'm not the best wood-worker so if your good you could probably make it faster. Though, I still think making this by Halloween would be a bit optimistic.
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Oh, darn! I saw a wooden cruch across the street at a yard sale the other day, and it would've made a perfect frame for this! Oh well, there's always good ol' fashion hand making.
Amazing work on this, btw. It looks extremely cool!
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Very cool. You need to post some plans up for people to make their own!
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Get busy, Man! 
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I would if I had them lol!
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Ya know, that looks like the hands of the Handyman from Bioshock: Infinite of sorts.
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Mmmm.... Bioshock comparisons make me very happy indeed!
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Oh heck that looks fantastic. I assume it really works?
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Yeah, it works and thanks for the compliment.
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