Earlier this year I decided to steampunk-ify my trusty record player. I’d been considering it for a while – ever since I modded a couple of Nerf Guns back in my university days. Records are pretty old school; it would only make sense to play them on a Victorianate turntable. Eventually I bit the bullet and dug out my modelling saw. Here’s how I built my Steampunk Record Player…
The Brief
I knew I could achieve a steampunk look simply by dismantling the record player and painting it brassy colours, but I wanted to add something to the player whilst modding it – I wanted to add some functionality. For example, when I modded my Nerf Maverick, I added power to its firing mechanism and built in a shoulder chain for ease of use. I decided to add a speaker to my record player, so that I wouldn’t have to keep thieving my girlfriend’s Logitechs whenever I wanted to play an LP. Once I’d settled on this idea, it didn’t me long to decide to model the speaker on an old gramophone horn.
