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Now making Stickers

The Mechanic
Posted on August 19, 2020
Steampunk has been pretty quiet for a while, so we have branched out to making custom stickers. Currently focusing on pop culture images for Jeep Wrangler windshields, but we can make anything (up to 12×12). https://www.etsy.com/shop/ClothedEye?ref=nla_listing_details
Falcor the Luck Dragon

Squirrel Shaman Bone and Fur Costume

The Mechanic
Posted on October 12, 2019

Handcrafted costume, made from bones and fur.

How badass do you want to look this Halloween? The most? Then this is the costume for you, featuring a rams skull/beaver fur/fox face headdress, with turtles shells and a 4 foot long tail made from spine bones, tipped with a foxtail.
Turtle shell/fox face/skull shoulder piece with feathers, bones, and legs can adorn either shoulder.
Fox face arm bracer with feather details is attached to a well-made leather bracer for comfort and durability.
Multi-fur loin cloth offers generous coverage while still looking primal and raw. Attached to a leather belt with a ThunderCat’s buckle :) (some of the furs can be positioned to cover the buckle)
Men’s Size 11 sandals are covered with fur and jawbones.

Other accessories include:
3 unique necklaces; one made of squirrel bones, feet, and a skull; one of blue kyanite, bones and skulls; and the third made of spine bones, a rook skull, and feathers.
Leg strap of fox feet and fur.
Arm strap with rook skull and leather.
Staff* topped with a skull and wrapped in fur and leather. (*it’s going to be problematic to ship the stick with the staff, so you will receive all the bones, fur, and leather for it, but NOT the staff itself. I just made it from a walnut branch that fell in my yard.)
Extra fur pelts, a few bones, and a rook skull.

I wore this last year to Theater Bizarre in Detroit and people were amazed. A lot of blood, sweat, and tears went into the crafting of this. (All blood on the costume is fake)
Don’t miss out on one of the most amazing, REAL bone, and REAL fur costumes you will find this season, or ever.

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Rob and Sarah’s Photo booth Images

The Mechanic
Posted on August 19, 2018

We got a chance to reuse the photo booth for Rob and Sarah’s wedding on 8.18.18
Easiest way to get the images into people hands is making this gallery.

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Steampunk Wedding Design

The Mechanic
Posted on February 12, 2018

A long time ago, I designed my wedding. From the invites, center pieces, to a custom photo booth, operated with a telegraph key. The invitations and other printed materials carried a theme of “You were here”, from the initial RSVP cards that said “Say you were there” to the final thank you’s with “Thank you for being there”.

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Cyberpunk Plague Doctor

The Mechanic
Posted on October 13, 2017

I’ve been working on a costume for Theater Bizarre. I think that the best description for it is “Cyberpunk Plague Doctor”. It began life as a gas mask and garbage picked motorcycle armor.
LEDs are supposed to arrive today.

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Unfinished Vambrace of Doom™ Prototype Steampunk Arm Device

The Story of Clothed Eye

The Mechanic
Posted on September 22, 2015

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always collected things. Rocks, Sea shells, Napkins, Comic books, and even domain names. At one point I owned over 150 domains, some just for fun, others reminders of stories I need to still write. One late night I heard the phrase “naked eye” and it made me wonder, if an eye can be naked, then it also could be clothed. I checked and no one had yet registered the domain “clothedeye” and thus was born this site.
The domain remained dormant for years before I discovered steampunk. On an early date with the woman who would become my wife, I attended a steampunk event in Detroit. I knew very little about it but the aesthetic immediately appealed to me and I threw myself into making an outfit, to impress her.

Raw Materials
Raw Materials
Over the next week I spent a lot of time at the local hard ware stores and online, buying all sorts of interesting items. My first outing into the steampunk world saw me as a mechanic, with a pair of goggles that I modified myself, and the obsession was born. Something about goggles really resonated with me. I was not impressed with what I was able to find online, it seemed they were all made from the same base pair of welding goggles and not a lot of variety or thought went into them. The date went great and I met and saw a lot of people that inspired me to start making my own goggles. The name Clothed Eye was a perfect fit.
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First Outfit (sorry about the quality)

I turned my basement kitchen into a work area and began crafting goggles like a mad man. The first pair sold within a few days of listing them and I was off.

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Mechanic’s Goggles

Every item at Clothed Eye is 100% unique and hand crafted by me. I wanted to make eccentric and outlandish items that would stand out among the amazing assortment of steampunk items that I was now in contact with. My basement workshop quickly became overrun with raw materials for crafting, all kinds of various goggles for bases, gears, chains, leather and more. Since that first pair I have gone on to sell internationally, a couple bought three pairs to use in their wedding, and have been featured in a book, The Art of Gothic
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Steampunk for me has become a great outlet for my creative energies. The incredible broadness of what you can make is immensely satisfying as a maker. Our wedding was steampunk themed and I designed/planned almost every aspect of it, from the apothecary jar center pieces to a photo booth that used a telegraph key as the button. I crafted a wrist communicator device that was used for reference in the steampunk comic “Westward” as well as supplying goggles.

My next planned projects are a few guns which is something I haven’t tried yet. I’m looking forward to getting back to crafting and always enjoy seeing what other brilliant people continue to come up with.

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Bug Eyed Multi Zoom Goggles
Chronotometer
Mesheye Goggles
Interconnector Blue Tooth Ear Device
Captain’s Goggles
Ancient Mariner’s Goggles
Mechanic’s Studded Goggles

Porthole in my Kitchen

The Mechanic
Posted on September 22, 2015

We have been remodeling our kitchen, so my steampunk activity has been nonexistent. We did put a porthole in the kitchen wall where a window was, so that kinda counts right? Just letting anyone that visits know we are still alive and around. Once the basement gets cleared out, again, I hope to get back to some crafting. I have parts to create some guns that I’m looking forward to creating.

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Steampunk Room Remodel

The Mechanic
Posted on December 9, 2014

Things have been pretty quiet here for a good reason: My wife and I have been remodeling the ‘Great Room’ in our home. It originally had wood panelling from the 1970s, so we took the room down to the studs and have slowly been putting things back, with a nice steampunk theme. Here are some images of the progress:

Dual Porthole
Shiny Copper Bay Window
Porthole LEDs
Barn Trolley Pieces
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Old School Bulbs

Steampunk Animated Short

The Mechanic
Posted on March 3, 2014

Very cool Steampunk Animated Short: “Mr Hublot” based on Stephane Halleux’s Universe. For some reason this reminds me of our Pitbull/Mastiff mix. Apparently it won an oscar? Go Steampunk go!

Dark Elixir Apothecary Jar

The Mechanic
Posted on March 3, 2014

Deliquified Dark Elixir apothecary jar. Clash of Clans meets steampunk in this great mashup glass jar. Jar is approximately 17″ tall with lid and featured two sided ‘aged’ labels with a dark elixir tank and minion image direct from the game Clash of Clans.

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