This is a lamp base i made after finding a geode in a little shop with a 1 3/8" bore in it for a lamp, it had a crack in it so was going for a tenner (without the lamp base)
I used it to make a cristmas present for my Mum..... I just left it till the 23rd dec to find the wood for the stand!!!
Still made it all in one evening, no problem!! (I took some extra pics tonight for the post ;) )
The Geode.
Then the wooded base, start to finish.
The two little puncture marks in the bottom of the base are from the screws used to hold a rectangular block of wood onto the bottom so that the whole base could be held in the mill vise... Worked really well, no vibration at all.
All the sanding was done by hand.... Good way to work up a sweat in the cold winter workshop!
The light.
Power input. I used an old phone charger, supposed to be 3.7V Turned out to be 12+ V !!! Resistor used to keep the power down. (LED's can be run on much lower voltages than stated as forward voltage and still give off a very bright light.)
The finished unit.
And in the dim light...
Well that's it for this oldie.... On to the next ;D
Ralph.
