for a while now i have been wanting to make a lamp that can light up your book that you are reading and hold the book till you have time for the next chapter.
ok sure put the lamp on a table and sit next to the table. but what if you could sit close under that lamp that had its own table.
i had 15mm (half inch) copper pipe left over from previous projects at home so that was it. i carves some feet out of some pallet wood with a jigsaw and some rasps. and made a little plywood base. this added weight and stability to the lamp that was about to grow out of it.
from here i started to build a little man with cross-overs for knees and combinations of 90 and 45 degree elbows for the hips shoulders elbows and neck.
it holds a little table made from an off cut i had int he shop. the base was stained and all the wood was given a coat of boiled linseed oil. the copper was cleaned off and also rubbed down with some linseed oil.
the cable runs up the left leg, up the spine and the light is operated by a foot switch. this was loads of fun to build! and i'm loving the end result.
best of all, the light butler is for sale...
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