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Make you own miniature tiffany lamp to light up your PC keyboard in style, from a table tennis ball, some old coins and the metal end of an artists paintbrush. It's very easy and quite quick. Plus once you have made the base, you can fit all manner of little lamp shades to it... Halloween, Christmas, Chinese lanterns etc etc, so this is a really useful little Instructable.
If you make this one, then there are templates for the Stained Glass Coke logo and a bending guide for the paper clip shade frame available as a download from dadcando, where you'll find a little more about the project and Louis Comfort Tiffany, the inventor of the Tiffany Lamp.
You'll need:
If you make this one, then there are templates for the Stained Glass Coke logo and a bending guide for the paper clip shade frame available as a download from dadcando, where you'll find a little more about the project and Louis Comfort Tiffany, the inventor of the Tiffany Lamp.
You'll need:
- table tennis ball
- paper clip
- old small paintbrush
- three copper or silver coins of different sizes
- a cheap mini USB PC LED light
- coloured permanent markers (or translucent paint)
- fine black permanent marker (or embossing craft pen if you have it)
- Super Glue (or quick setting epoxy resin (two part glue)
- Hot melt glue gun glue (or quick setting epoxy resin)
- Pliers (thin nose ones would be useful)
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Signing UpStep 1Draw out your Lamp Shade design on the Ball
(Note: Use a pencil and draw very lightly and be careful not to get the surface of the ball too smudged up with pencil lead.)
Start by drawing a line round the equator of the ball. Use the seam as a guide. Then from the North Pole draw lines down to meet the equator at the quarter hours so that you have four equal segments. Now further divide each of those segments into three small equal sized segments so that in all you have 12 segments.
about 2 to 3 mm below the equator line draw another line round the circumference. Between this line and the equator draw a series of vertical lines that line up with the ends of the segment lines.
Below the lower circumference line draw little scallops round to line up with the small vertical lines.
About 10mm down from the North pole draw two concentric circumference lines.
Draw out the Coca-Cola logo. I used the reference photo and a coke can as the guide, but now I have drawn them up properly and you can download them from dadcando Tiffany Lamp project as well if you want.
I simplified the logo mainly because of the small size and the complexity was at the limit of my skill and the equipment i had. (I made this for my kids while on holiday staying in someone else's house so I didn't have much in the way of equipment.
Start by drawing a line round the equator of the ball. Use the seam as a guide. Then from the North Pole draw lines down to meet the equator at the quarter hours so that you have four equal segments. Now further divide each of those segments into three small equal sized segments so that in all you have 12 segments.
about 2 to 3 mm below the equator line draw another line round the circumference. Between this line and the equator draw a series of vertical lines that line up with the ends of the segment lines.
Below the lower circumference line draw little scallops round to line up with the small vertical lines.
About 10mm down from the North pole draw two concentric circumference lines.
Draw out the Coca-Cola logo. I used the reference photo and a coke can as the guide, but now I have drawn them up properly and you can download them from dadcando Tiffany Lamp project as well if you want.
I simplified the logo mainly because of the small size and the complexity was at the limit of my skill and the equipment i had. (I made this for my kids while on holiday staying in someone else's house so I didn't have much in the way of equipment.
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