Geoff's Crystal Sets – Page 2

Crystal Radios a Growing Fascination.

Anyone whose visited my Beltane designs site Beltane Products will see I like to make things from raw materials like leather and wood and brass. Mostly functional things with an artistic theme running throughout the design but there is also the scientific side of me that also is bursting for expression.

Since my early youth I had a training in electronics and radio. My workshop has grown with some basic engineering equipment like lathes engraving machine, drill presses and fly presses many hundreds of hand tools all crying out to be used. It seemed a logical step for me to blend both the scientific and the artistic and come up with a different form of expression.

The crystal radio strange as it might seem has a fascination and a satisfaction within my creative ability. Trouble is I've never really made anything for myself in all these years things go out of my workshop to other people. I guess I really enjoy giving and making for others more than keeping things for myself.

These radios have been sold. I can make a custom made radio for you. Please enquire.

Heart of Oak Crystal Receiver

Please click on the photographs for a larger picture of this beautiful wireless receiver.

Order Nr. Heart of Oak Crystal Radio

I made this set in 2010 with two intentions in mind one was to go portable with it for use on holidays in the caravan or on camping field days with the ham radio station and a telescopic mast and dipole aerial. The other use was as a test receiver for various components and coils. The main coil and AF Choke coils are plugable. This was again a 'Mystery Crystal Radio' circuit so the main coil has four connections on the base . The Box was made from solid English Oak with comb jointed corners. This was the usual traditional form that the early set makers used in their box construction. It is a very strong box and also was designed to house the headphones and a couple of spare coils in the separate compartment. I intended to make a handle from a piece of Natural Veg leather which would be double handstitched to give it some extra strength.This set is still an ongoing project and I may fit brass edge trim to the box corners at a later date. I will put a tuning scale chart into the lid calibrated in frequency against the 0-100 logging scale.

This set was used at the 'Tate Britain' exhibition 'Restless Times' in which I exhibited a number of crystal sets in September 2011 and the set was really the main one used in the demonstration of sounds from a crystal radio in the 'Duveen Gallery' exhibition

Jules Verne Mk. 2

 

Order Nr. Jules Verne Crystal Radio Mk. 2

Description coming soon.