Edison Log Lamp

Bulb

I Saw an Edison lamb built into a piece of wood on Instagram that I liked. I though it was cool and decided to make my own version. Since the lamp does not have a cover, I built in a dimmer switch.

Here is what it looks like off.

Lamp Off

And here it is with the bulb at its lowest level. It is a dimmable LED bulb so it doesn’t use much power, won’t break easily, and it is cool so I don’t have to worry about the wood getting too hot.

Lamp OnThe piece of wood is from a branch that broke off our carrotwood tree. I cut it to size and polished the top. There are two holes; one for the bulb and one for the dimmer.

Top

In the bottom I had to carve out a place for the dimmer and a slot to run the wires. I then used a router bit in my drill press to cut out the rectangle so I can put a 1/8″ plywood cover on it.

Botom I stained the wood with an oak stain and then sealed it. I turned the knob out of the same wood. Here you can see the difference in color between the bare wood and the stained and sealed wood.

Knob

All in all a successful project. It took me too long make to be something I could sell, at least for a price I think people would pay. And as my son told me, the knob is off center.

So, how much would you pay for a lamp like this?

A Valentines Day Project

With Christmas and New Years over I decided to look forward to another holiday when I was thinking about my next laser cutting project.

It starts with a plan. In this case I took the drawing the I created for my Christmas candle, delete the tree and added some hearts. I created three different patterns.

Plans

Then I cut some of the boards that I’m recycling from old blinds to the correct length (enough to make one candle and still fit in the laster cutter)

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Laser Cutting is the next step. It takes about two and a half minutes to cut out each candle holder. You can also see that it takes the whole width of the blind.

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With the pieces all cut out, including the four pieces of red tissue paper all that is left is to glue it all together.

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Here are the three prototypes. Which means …
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… ready to go into production.

IMG_1855 Happy Valentine’s Day a month early.

Doug

Laser Cutting Project – Day 10

Another lamp, but this one is designed to be a desk lamp. I made a base on it – to hold the lamp fixture – and ran the cord out the back.

I found two public domain vector images of birds. I used on large on the top of each face and etched both of the bird in the base. The light is a full sized LED bulb and has pink paper infant of each cutout.

The lamp puts out a lot of light upwards.

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Material costs

  • $16 Two sheet of plywood
  • A little stain
  • A little glue

Toal material cost $16

Labor costs

6 hours non-recurring

1 hour of recurring