Yes I did enjoy your post!
I love how you talked about all the background of you stile-inspiration and the Epoche!
The ghosts of the previous owners are in the things.
...imagining those stories. And then you transform them and put different ones together and create a whole new story collaging the old ones and adding your own.
For sure making the needle yourself, it gets onto another path (fish bones?) mad if you think that you could somehow make everything yourself... but for some tings I am happy that they are there and I dont have to bother:)