Thank you for the compliment. My father owned a machine shop while I was growing up. I became a very good machinist before I decided to first pursue law and later engineering. I have a Monarch tooling lathe and a Bridgeport Mill in my home shop and have been playing around with building my own mod. You are definitely right about the Mutant. There is a lot of room on the tube to do some nice engravings.
I don't know how much you know about the Steampunk, but if you have not seen an original up close, the gears are actually braised on to the tube, not engraved like the clone of it. Of all the mods I own, the Steampunk is the only mod that I own that looks like the mod maker made it in his home garage. Please don't misunderstand me, it is not a poorly built mod, but when you look at it there is no doubt that it is not a mass produced mod.
One of the things I really love about it is that when you put two of his mods side by side you will find minor differences that distinguish one from another. Especially when you look at the gears he braises on. They are hand fitted to wrap around the tube. it is hard to explain, but if you ever get one of them in to your hands, you will see exactly what I am trying to convey. To sum it up, it is a very unique mechanical mod and definitely worth every penny the French guy who builds them sells them for. You could definitely spend months trying to replicate it or incorporate his design with another mod.
Below is a Manhattan mod that a local mod maker has basically taken the plane design of the original and added his own flare to the mod by stamping his own logo on it and doing some neat engraving on the firing pin. Its a great mod, but what I call a lazy mans way of producing his own mods for sale.
There is a rumor that the mod maker actually is buying clones of the Manhattan to make his own. Though there is some truth to that rumor, what most people don't know is that all Manhattans are clones, in that, the only difference between the clone and the original, is price and packaging. They are made in the same plant on the same assembly line, with the same exact machine tolerances and materials.
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