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Inventor's Lamp

Posted by Matte Resist on January 4, 2017 at 2:39pm

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.

Comments

Matte Resist January 5, 2017 at 5:59pm

Thanks! I had a lot of fun building this one. (I have fund building all of them... but this one was especially fun.)
Gary W aka Rev. Bluejeans January 5, 2017 at 11:39am

Way cool, Matte! (It would be cool to integrate this into an amp!)
Larry Cuddy January 5, 2017 at 9:44am

Very creative, just goes to show, not all cigar boxes were meant to be a guitar.
Thomas "Duck" Petry January 5, 2017 at 9:37am

Definitely an over the top build. 8.9 on the coolness scale!
Lil' Jimmy January 5, 2017 at 9:25am

Buddy that is off the chain. Nothing like God given talent and craftmenship
Uncle John January 5, 2017 at 8:32am

That is wonderful,
Ron "Oily" Sprague January 5, 2017 at 7:44am

Very steampunk. Diggin' it.
Jerry Jordan January 5, 2017 at 7:24am

that is crazy cool.,.,and I thought it was an amp.,,.xcellent Lamp.,.,
turtlehead January 4, 2017 at 7:04pm

Super cool, I love this kind of thing!
Bluesheart January 4, 2017 at 4:41pm

That's great!