At one of the places I was vending this winter, the person at the table next to mine asked about getting a lamp for her young son. She described him as inventive and curious, so when I built his lamp I just had to try to build something that would inspire him to create. Based on other lamps she looked at, she requested a mason jar globe and a working meter. This is what I came up with. I would have actually liked to do even more with it, but as it is I already way overshot what I would normally put into a lamp for the price we agreed on. You “start” this lamp by turning the key. Once that has been done, each of the lamps is controlled by their own switch. The small bulb is controlled by the toggle switch, and the large bulb in the mason jar is controlled by a rotary switch with a vintage radio knob.

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Comment by Matte Resist on January 5, 2017 at 11:59am

Thanks! I had a lot of fun building this one. (I have fund building all of them... but this one was especially fun.)

Comment by Gary W aka Rev. Bluejeans on January 5, 2017 at 5:39am

Way cool, Matte!  (It would be cool to integrate this into an amp!)

Comment by Larry Cuddy on January 5, 2017 at 3:44am

Very creative, just goes to show, not all cigar boxes were meant to be a guitar.

Comment by Thomas "Duck" Petry on January 5, 2017 at 3:37am

Definitely an over the top build.  8.9 on the coolness scale!

Comment by Lil' Jimmy on January 5, 2017 at 3:25am

Buddy that is off the chain. Nothing like God given talent and craftmenship

Comment by Uncle John on January 5, 2017 at 2:32am

That is wonderful, 

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on January 5, 2017 at 1:44am
Very steampunk. Diggin' it.
Comment by Jerry Jordan on January 5, 2017 at 1:24am

that is crazy cool.,.,and I thought it was an amp.,,.xcellent Lamp.,.,

Comment by turtlehead on January 4, 2017 at 1:04pm

Super cool, I love this kind of thing!

Comment by Bluesheart on January 4, 2017 at 10:41am

That's great!

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