midas y4k

i made this a while ago. something i built for a fund-raiser. it was auctioned off to help pay for a friends medical bills. i had only made something like this once before and that was in highschool so i really enjoyed putting this together with all the new experience i've gotten since then. the camera wasn't great so sorry for the crappy pictures. i'm posting pictures of the piece pre painting (which were taken with a better camera) here: [link]

took me about two days. it's made primarily out of wood dowels, balsa wood, and popsicle sticks. i used pre-shaped craft wood for the more difficult shapes like the wooden beads and spools i used to make the finger joints. used an exacto knife for most of the carving i had to do, and my dremel for all the hard wood parts. the wires are just wires, and the whole thing is stuck together with a glue gun. the only other thing that isn't wood is the ball joint at the wrist. it's a ping pong ball.

painted with rustoleum gold leaf, which is where i came up with the title. i think most of you know who midas was. i did my best to create a hand that looked fully functional, so for every possible movement a hand can make, there is a dedicated piston for that movement. on average about six per finger. it was very tedious work cutting every piece to the exact right length, but totally worth it in the end. i hope you all like it.