Thanks for the compliments and yes I know with the wires it's semi mechanical...
The use of wires doesn't make a mod any less "mech" either (I have no idea where the term "semi-mech" came from
...it's either mechanical or it's not)...if "no wires" was a criteria of a mech mod then there would be very few box mechs. (if any)
I think there may be some blurring in of tube mod terminology happening here where the body of the mod is also a conductor. The Reo Grand uses the body as a neg. return, and has a flat strip of conductor that gets physically mashed into the pos. of the batt with a button. I don't think there's any argument that a Grand is a "mechanical" mod...but isn't that strip basically a flat wire?
I recently saw a wood box mod where the guy used painstakingly formed #12 solid copper wire with the insulation all stripped off and it was controlled by his own "home brewed" switch (similar to a Grand), again, no doubt that that mod was a mech....so if you strip off the insulation, it's no longer wire?
... the guy could have also wired in an led V meter, that would've kinda ruined the look but that wouldn't make it any less a mech.
I build mechs, FET controlled and regulated mods and building a good mech is the hardest...especially the switch (not many 10A momentary switches out there), all your connections have to be spot-on or you get v drop across it, losing power to your coils...where as in a regulated mod, if you lose wattage at a bad connection, no worries, just turn it up.
Not that any of this really matters...I just think that all this terminology is making things more complicated than it needs to be.