Inspiration for steampunking the bees

Because I wanted to share this photo with some people and couldn't be bothered to find my flicker account password.

It's from the book Beekeeping For All by Abbe Warre.  It's a really interesting bee smoker that I hope to use for inspiration for making my own affordable smoker.

Yes, we hope to get bees, but first we have to build the hives and equipment.


Edit:

Here are some photos of potential bit of metal to make this smoker.  The 1.5" brass tube costs about $5 but the rest were salvaged from yardsales.  Total cost so far, about $8.50.