Also, in case it wasn't blatantly obvious, that talisman is assembled 100% from found/gifted/stolen/salvaged/re-used materials.
A motorcycle exhaust gasket, tungsten carbide turning insert, broken tap, exploded spark plug, brass nuts for hull pass-throughs for robot submarine antennas, a perfect sapphire rod from a medical pump, an odd lodestone magnet I found in the gravel of my dad's driveway, marbles that emerged from the dirt of our vegetable garden we've been calling Materia...