I haven’t posted a Stuff We Need installment in a while, maybe because I’ve been too overwhelmed with stuff lately, like moving 20 years of accumulated stuff from one house to another, and having been immersed in those stuff-filled days we call the holiday season.
But when I saw this, I knew I had to have one:
Scrapblasters are two guys from Seattle, Brian Westcott and John Brink, who do upcycling with great retro taste.
It’s not that I have a thing for vacuum cleaners, it’s just that a vintage vacuum cleaner repurposed as a boom box TOTALLY works for me.
And yet, looking around the Scrapblasters website and checking other things they’ve made, I came up with an idea I’d like more than a boom box.
Back in April, they posted this:
That right there is a speaker and sub-woofer in a 1910 suitcase, and what I’d really like is to commission them to construct a home theater sound system inside a collection various retro items that would sit around the TV room.
THAT would be so rad!
Fish & Bicycles 
I approve of this awesome apparatus.
Cool stuff. I’d love to hear that electrolux. Whats old is once again new.
Wow we are flattered by the response! We will post more videos to try and demonstrate the audio quality. The Electrolux provides a perfect “boomtube” cannister and has a nice low-end response. We have a few Electrolux’s from different years.
Thanks so much being interersted !
what a great idea to make the typical unaesthetic speaker into a work of art. A great way to keep something of sentimental value and make it useful.