Industrial Bedside Lamp

I love working with wood and metal and I love lamps. What better way to combine both than building an industrial style bedside lamp from wood, a pipe and a wrench?

Supplies

Resources:

a light bulb

a light bulb socket

a switch

a plug

a big wrench

a short malleable iron pipe with an end cap

a piece of wood (I used oak)

two pieces of sheet steel

an electric motor (not necessary)

screws

Tools:

a router

a drill

sandpaper

a saw for wood (jigsaw / table saw ...)

something to cut metal (tin snips / jigsaw / angle grinder ..)

a 3d printer

Step 1: Preparing the Wood

At first I used my jigsaw to cut the wood to size. After a little cleanup with sandpaper, I turned the board over and hollowed it out with my router, making place for the switch and the cables. Next I drilled a big hole for the pipe to screw in. It doesn't have to be perfect, as everything is going to be covered up later on.

Step 2: Attaching the Wrench to the Pipe

For attaching the wrench to the pipe, I used my 3d printer to print out a little piece, that can be glued to the outside of the pipe, that the ring of the wrench fits onto.

But before glueing it all together, I drilled a hole into the pipe and also in the middle of the wrench for the cable to go through.

After that was done, with some 5-minute-epoxy all the parts can be glued together. The plastic part is held to the pipe with zip ties. To cover up some of the plastic, I glued the front side of the same motor to the ring of the wrench.

Lastly, the end cap can be screwed to the upper thread of the pipe.

Step 3: Wiring and Assembly

First, I passed the cable through the pipe, out of the little hole I drilled, through the hole in the wrench and over its jaw. On the end I attached the lamp socket and fixed the cable in place with some copper wire from the electric motor . Then it was time to screw the pipe into the wood. It's starting to look like a lamp!

For esthatics, I again took a part of the electric motor and attached it to the switch with a screw and some glue. I then cut a piece of the sheet steel and drilled a few holes in it. Four small ones on the cornes for screws and a big one on the inside for the switch. I decided to spray paint it black, but that it would also have looked great if i left it sanded. With some more epoxy, the switch can now be glued to the steel.

With four small screws I attached my beautiful switch to the wood and wired everything up. As I'm not an electrician, I'm not going to tell you how I did that.

Because leaving all the wires exposed isn't that great, I used another piece of sheet steel to cover it all up and screw to the bottom of the wood.

DONE!!!