STEAMPUNK

Although many works now considered the seed to the genre were published in the 1960s and 1970s, the term steam punk originated in the late 1980s as a tongue in cheek variant of cyberpunk. It seems to have been coined by the science fiction author K. W. Jeter.

Some prototypical steam punk stories were essentially cyberpunk tales that were set in the past, using steam-era technology rather than the ubiquitous cybernetics of cyberpunk but maintaining those stories' "punkish" attitudes towards authority figures and human nature. Steam punk was a distopia because it was a different idea, sometimes with noir and pulp fiction themes as in cyberpunk. As the generation developed it became more utopian and considered helpful and more scientific (or romance scientific).

Steam punk is a sub genre of fantasy which came into more importance in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.

As you see in the picture of the guitar it was designed with gauges, gears, pipes, welds, and a bunch of fake rust.

steam punk designers are very creative and amazing i hope one day i can make something that is creative like that!!!!!