Steampunk Belt Buckle

I realized that my day-to-day wardrobe was in serious need of something steampunk, so i constructed this.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• steampunk
• brass
• clockwork
• belt

[TheRussells]

Do the gears provide functionality-- i.e., actually cause the buckle to, well, buckle-- or are they purely ornamental?

[Jonny5rd]

Uh, heh heh, no.  They're just for looks...

[TheRealSamDole]

It would be awesome if the gears actually buckled it.

[LocoEvilDabdoub]

yes, useless, but cool: steampunk isnt really always about being practical, but is mainly about making something common, to be a bit unusual, and a bit mmm... "techno-victorian". Anyway, thats a really simple way to describe it.

[StopmoNick]

@StopmoNick

Ooh - just watched some more, and the gears actually mesh and turn! Bravo! Guess I better go click the LIKE button.

[StopmoNick]

Look for this video on Youtube: "Just glue some gears on it, and call it steampunk".

Having said that, I like your buckle - it does at least look as if the gears might do something... and for an item of apparel I guess we can cut you some slack!

[TasteOfTorment]

Hey, are you from the mitten?? Value world? Awesome. I shop there all the time.

Freaking awesome contraption!

[CriticCafeteria]

its not steam punk if it has no function, go look up the defintion of steampunk

[VALMARIESASK]

thanks!

[LScribeHarris]

It looked really basic...

...and then it MOVED.

[AnimeAdictProduction]

Where can i get cogs and gears?

I don't think I can find mechanical watches where I live.(not cheap anyways).

Dumpster diving(as instructed in a forum) out if the question.

There's a shop where I live where they fix TVs and radios. Maybe i'll try there

Ordering of the internet is also out of the question( parents... grrr).

And i'd feel bad about destroying still functional house appliances that are still of use.

So, any tips for finding stuff that's relatively cheap?Nothing else comes to mind.

[Jaszitaa]

oooo~ the gears turn!

that's nifty!

[phillippibeard]

@Microglia1 It supposedly became popular in the 1980s, but in my opinion, it all began in 1965 with the television show The Wild Wild West.

[DJacKnifeAlpha]

@Jonny5rd THAT'D BE EPIC!