Meet Dmitry Tikhonenko from Minsk. It is engaged in the repair of household appliances, and at leisure creates masterpieces, which will envy Many Wizards Steampunk.
Tuning refrigerators and electric stove are, rather, a hobby that has become a business card Tikhonenko. In a separate room, where Dmitry's work is, they are not allowed. Tikhonenko's ordinary clients would know what miracles he knows how to create, for sure they would be ash. We are talking, sitting outside the honey table, there is a copper plate, a copper coffee machine, microwave.
"Metal's passion began in the army when served on the Northern Fleet in the Barents Sea. On the ship a lot of parts from copper that you regularly have to drag. Gradually, it turned into a habit, "Dmitry smiles. - The first crafts from copper were nomoudered - decorations for the Demobel album: letters, ships ... And if you smoke even deeper, my father worked a lockout all my life, and it was so good in his business that I put it on my own items. It was considered the highest pilot at the plant, the details made by the hands of the Father, did not even have to go around. "
"From my grandmother, I was left the working refrigerator, it was a pity to throw it, I decided to" update "," says Dmitry. "The next was the microwave, after - the stove ... If someone rests in the bars, behind the billiard table, then I went to the workshop."
"Once upon a time I come to email: the guys from Moscow saw my work and invited the steampunk festival. I answer them: guys, you mistaken, no I am punk ... - Dmitry laughs. "Already after figured out, I read the literature, I looked at the photo reports from the meetings of the steamed and realized: this is mine."
As you already, you probably understood, Dmitry Tikhonenko - a thorough man, so he soon created the Belarusian site dedicated to the verse, and, in fact, became one of the main proposals of this culture in our country, while remaining unique in its own way. If most steampars have a major goal - to create an image, a bout suit, then Dmitry has every thing he made, functions. On the neck, the masters hang protective glasses, or, as they are also called, "Gogla", on the belt - leather apron, you can constantly see it in such a machine, so it comes to the steampunk parties in everyday work clothes.
"Each button, each lever with rare exception works and performs a specific function," says Dmitry, showing its products. Moreover, I try to make the thing not only beautiful, but also convenient, as well as maintainable. For this, for example, in the stove made a viewing window, opening which you can see what is happening in the oven. "
The process of making any product consists of several stages. . At the first stage, pre-placed parts of the product are cut and cut out, then they pass a preliminary assembly in order for each component to fit into size. If all parts have risen, they are dismantled and prepared for the next stage. If not, customized or converted by the master. Then each part is pre-grinding and degreased.
If necessary, the metal is patched - artificially aged. After a long drying of the products, all parts are collected together, and already at the very end after installation is brightened to the desired masse the shade with grinding.
Dmitry Tikhonenko to the little things thinks out each product , All items, creating unique items that are very convenient to use every day. His works of witness art is the very case when beauty does not require victims.
"This is one of the first models of flat TVs. She had a traditional housing - silver plastic, and it did not suit me at all, as we have everything in the yellow metal. For more than a year, he dust in the box until I finally took it. Now TV in copper "case", all the workers buttons (their design was borrowed from wind musical instruments). The only poachoria on it is located next to the Kmerees keys, it's just a decoration. Then added to the TV cover for the DVD player, the columns made from the old "radio engineering". The columns on top in the form of the pattern are also workers. My friend is engaged in ripped acoustics, and I made them exactly in its drawings. "
The coffee machine was created simultaneously with the TV and gradually developed into a large project. It was added to the bar counter, made on special order. The beverage containers are located on top. From the bottom of several shelves, each of which carries its specific function. The first is the copper tray, the utensils are stored on the second, and this dishes are heated by a special device.
And, of course, the phone. He all notice immediately. A few years ago, Olga's wife presented Dmitry Nokia 6670, which after a long and painstaking work turned into a real work of art.
"The metal screens the signal, and most of all I had to tinker with the output of the antenna," says the master. - But this problem was solved. The result amazes: each of the working buttons, we personally checked. "
At each of the products, Dmitry puts the name stamp and attaches a special sign with the number in which several parameters important for it are immediately encrypted. Master tuning refrigerators, microwaves, hoods, coffee machines, TVs, washing ...
The next project of the master working with copper has become a coffee machine.
"I spent two months to create this car and I think that this is the best work," Dmitry admits. - First of all, because I did everything in my mind - a comrade, for which this project was created, did not interfere in the creative process.
As in the previous works of Dmitry, almost all elements of the design of the workers' coffee machines. Each lever, valve and sensor functional.
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