And finally the last picture for now, a brief example of the bend and articulation this is capable of, not to mention the last bit and how it was finished off to a pointed end.

Ideally every 4-5 links or so would have separate 'control' and every link would have some kind of variable dampening, to more fully mimic the real thing. The engineering which had to go into this thus far has been rather daunting and I do hope to tackle the dampening issue eventually, but finer control of each section will likely be impossible, so I'll continue with what I have built up now and see where it goes.

To tackle the questions I already know that are coming. Firstly if you were to want to commission me to build this for you, the price is $1,000 USD. I know that's prohibitively expensive, but call around and find out how much a machinist charges per hour of labor, and work that into the 50 odd hours I've burned building this thus far.

Secondly, the machinery you will require to build something like this.
-A milling machine with at least 100mm of horizontal bed travel, and measuring equipment capable of accurately and consistently keeping with .05mm tolerance minimum.
-A drill press
-A TIG machine (for the stainless steel backframe which will be shown later)
-a good deal of common and specialty hand tools
-A metricfuckton of patience

That is all, feel free to ask any other questions.