Because the slats are angled, you could also paint one side of the wood with a contrasting color before cutting out the pieces. Then, if assembled in the same direction, the lamps would change color gradients as you move around while giving a slight tweak to the warmth/coolness of the light to match the room.
Bob. Thanks for sharing! I do not have a 3D printer or a Laser but it does not stop me from watching and learning from your videos. You keep doing what you're doing and I will keep watching. Thanks again Bob. Happy New Year to you and your family.
Based on my experience as a handyman installing high end lighting, I would say it's a $9000 light fixture you got there. Great design Bob. And nice to use stuff laying around+ New materials+ 3d printing in one project.
Maybe an idea for the future upgrade of this lamp: a small light placed in the tube, pointing upward, serving as a low-intensity ambient light 😄 This was a great project nonetheless!
Bob! This light fixture is AMAZING, and I love it. It is a great project to close out 2023 and to finish your reno. I always enjoy watching your channel and am inspired to make stuff even when I don't know what the heck I'm doing. Kudos and best wishes for a great 2024!
In the last few months you seem much more relaxed and happy. I enjoy watching your videos so much now. I watch them sooner and watch ones that I don't plan to build just because you are fun to watch. Great video!
That new dining room light is super duper cool! Love it! Might you be selling the laser cut pieces as a flat pack to assemble? Might you sell the shade in different lengths?
I have similar black metal open top tubes - each came with a wooden gate construction kit (one of those ones that is just a frame and you provide your own pleats). There's an option in there to construct the gate one way or another, and a tube is left over based on the option you choose. Of course, I kept the spare metal, for reasons.
Turned out beautifully! You might be also to use washi to diffuse the light more if needed. When you said "...drill some holes" my brain filled in 'and pound some pegs', no idea why. Have a lovely new year.
We have pretty much removed all existing lights, light fixture and anything hanging and replaced almost all of the lights to have around 50 or so 6 inch recessed thin profile led light pucks in all rooms. The upstairs and 2 additions were super easy as you can go up in to the attic. The main kitchen and the lower level living quarters you can not do that. In the 2nd kitchen the room is long and the floor joist go in the correct direction which allowed for 5 lights and 4 lights. The kitchen and living quarters we have to do something else. The kitchen we area going to do 2 drop down boxes so that there are 2 runs with 10 lights in each one. The living quarters we are still undecided. The pantry has a part of an attic above it and the joist are going the right way to make runs of lights. Adding these lights has greatly improved lighting in these areas. Our upstairs office has 2 runs of 3 lights each and one set is at the rear counter and the 2nd light is in the middle forward to light up the room. The 2 big screen tvs have 4 foot light bars behind them (20 watts each) connected to smart home plugs and since the they are on swing out swivels they light up the entire desk below and do not mess with glare if one is sitting in the 2 recliners. The rear thin profiled puck led recessed what ever you want to call them are set to the lower 2400k and on a dimmer with some temporary shields on them. I still need to make something a bit better and have some ideas on how to do it. I just need to find someone who can 3d print and have them make some shields. This is to stop the glare. To wire these all up was super simple. I just drilled all the holes out and daisy chained the lights and connected it to the old light wires. For those I pulled them up and out of the boxes if there were any and patched the holes back up. The new lights are super nice. I have seen some rgb led ones, some that have night lights halos on them and several others including directional ones and a number of sizes. While not like this light in the video something like this will improve what crappy lights exist in homes. I visited someone who just bought a freshly remolded home that just had chandlers in every room, while they look pretty the lighting is super poor.
Been watching your work for a while now Bob and this lamp is probably my favorite build. It's a nice use of a variety of skills, something anyone can do to one style or another based on skills and materials. The look is very unique, a little sci-fi, little art deco, little mathematical, little artsy. A nice combination of styles. I do wonder how it would look with different sized and angled slats, maybe spaced out more to let more light through; would have been cool if it was adjustable like one of those toys that can turn into a ball or star, but that's a lot of a lot. Be cool if you could make some smaller hanging lights for over the center counter over the area with stools for eating.
Love it! Super cool Bob! I would love to have seen a really cool tiny pattern laser engraved on each of the slats, just really faint, to give it that extra bit of detail
I think one of the best things about it is that it has a dynamic design - it always looks different from different angles, so never stops looking pretty and cool - there's always variety. I'm gonna adopt that approach in my feature pieces from now on, thank you!
Gorgeous design, Bob! It reminds me of a Philippines bubo, which means 'fish trap'. And lots of similar designs throughout the Pacific Islands. Love the idea of it holding in light, but the light still finds a way to escape. Awesome work!
That's pretty cool! As for those who don't like your methods, you have the tools, it would be silly not to use them. I will probably never have a laser like yours, but it doesn't make the project less interesting to me.
Love the LEGO map early in the video. I'm currently building mine so we can put all the places we've been to in Italy! The lamp looks awesome. It's very modern and simple, but looks great. Happy new year to you and your family!
In the past week Shaun Boyd posted a YT video on his “Shaun Boyd Made This” channel that could have fit your prototype requirements. Did you ever glue all the ribs together? If not, you could vary your pattern by inverting every other rib to create a similar, yet different shade pattern. What was the white material that you rolled out on the plywood before laser cutting? Bob, thanks for another year of great video content. Wishing you a safe holiday weekend and a blessed new year filled with peace, prosperity, happiness and good health. Stay safe out there, surrounded by the warmth of family and friends. Cheers.
Super cool! I was nervous about the charred edges being visible on all the slats but it turned out to be a really neat effect. Do you have any plans to add a CNC to your shop in the future? That would have been my instinct for this project.
yes bob! make more lights! we lost a pear tree due to the heavy snow this winter, sad as it might be, my first thought was to make a floor lamp from it. may act as some inspo to you over the pond
Stunning work, Bob! Really beautiful light fixture!!! 😃 And you could even paint it - if you wanted to! But I'd do it before cutting the material, because the black border looks fantastic! Happy new year! And stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thats an impressive project! Just a technical question: you said at the beginning you twisted AND tilted the ribs: have you really made so in the actual lamp shade or have you only twisted them? Doesn't the joint between the ring and the ribs require a cut that is not perpendicular to the surface to achieve a stable structure? I assume the laser cutter can't do that; how did you manage that? Happy new year!
nice project from you Bob, keep up good work, with 3D printing or without it, just enjoying project, i was waiting from you to add a feature that takes the light up during day light (to open the view from windows) and take it back to the right height when it is dark (and waiting just to turn it On/Off), nice job
That light came out great. I think what your corner test might not have shown is the motion you see from the slats on the opposite side as you look through the full completed shade.
it looks fabulous and it works great with the table, just don't get another table now ;-) one bulb light being black thread and two white is weird, but luckily you can't see it once the globe went on, well done
Congrats on finally finishing your kitchen! Light fixture looks great! What did you put in the hidden drawers in the bottom of the island? Do you use them like you thought you would?
Nice project. Can you try with a filament bulb (LED, they make fancy ones nowadays) instead of having a diffusion ball? I wonder how it would look like.
you mentioned that you wanted up lighting as well. You may want to adjust the shape of your channel covers so they have a indented channel within them to place an LED on each side of the post as an up-light as well
I made a lightfrom pvc pipe for my kitchen. Busy with one for my loinge but ran out of black spray paintand as tomorrow is Sunday and new years evet. I have to wait till Tuesday to get more to finish and then install. Still thinking through what i want to do in the dining room.
Very creative & interesting. I'd love to have this kind of fitting in my home... OK, I'd loev to have a home big enough for it, but, ya know... 😝 Kinda glossed over how the wooden assembly attaches to the steel box girder / channel. Is it just poised on there with the upper ring hanging on the ends of the channel? Are there screws? Brackets? 🧐
Awesome shade bro. I can definitely see you selling this on your website but i also see the other side of that. You just made an awesome, one of a kind masterpiece. Do you want to share it. Any way, great content, you and your crew do great things. If people have problems or complaints about not having the tools you do they need to remember there is always a work around. You have proven that for sure.
Great looking lamp. Are you up for sharing/selling those plans? I'd have to find a local place to cut the pieces, but would hope I could kit together the rest...
Bob I am curious if the shade could be scaled down for an end table lamp (I assume it can). I'm seeing that in my head right now and seems like it would turn out nice.
Not a fan of "rib lamps" but this one certainly stands from many others and got me a several good ideas for a similar situation I'm currently in. Sadly I only have a 20W diode laser, so I'll be expending a few afternoons at the workshop keeping myself busy while it does its job 😅😅
When you said you wanted the light to shine from above to reflect off the ceiling, I imagined a separate light source to do just that. Are the three globes enough to produce that secondary light reflection like you wanted?
Like many others are commenting, this is one of my favorite build results. It looks great! You make me wish I had a laser cutter. That thing is so cool! (I finally got a good 3d printer.)
You, sir, just turned your dining room table from something plain and ordinary to a high-end dining establishment. Normally I don't like chandeliers or any other form of hanging lights; however, this looks spectacular, Bob. I would even reconsider my stance on hanging lights as a result of your video. Well done!
Love the design, execution and even if some of your tools are not affordable to all (like myself), there are still other ways to achieve the same result. It'll just take longer. So I'll keep on watching too! Happy new year in advance to you and your family! 🎉
Wow! It looks awesome! Love this design Bob! And for those of you who will start complaining "Yeah, well I don't have this expensive laser Bob, now what?" - next week Bob will make a second one using only a scrollsaw to cut the pieces by hand. Which might take another two years again... 😉
As an electrician, I probably wouldn't have cut and welded the part for the top cover, but would have wrapped it over the lower channel and machine screwed it; that would make it easier for wiring and for hanging, and would have little to no effect on the aesthetics.
I finally got a 3d printer, ( a very basic one) and it’s been a challenge to say the least but the benefits do having this tool and keep ring how to use it has also been fun and extremely helpful. If your hesitant on getting one or learning about them don’t be, just jump into it!
I love that you can just make a different shade using your original measurements if you get bored of it. An idea would be to wrap it in a thin cloth maybe even painted with the family
There are too many cases with better help, that shows they take advantage of people who already are down. Lots of people have shared their experiences, unfortunately not great ones. I highly encourage you to look them up and their cases, and don’t work with them in the future. As always, the video was fun to watch though!
The house I grew up in had a single bulb floor lamp with a remarkably similar design from the 70s. It's a little weird seeing it recreated in jumbo here, but still pretty cool!
I don't know this as a fact, the person that has a bias against 3D printers probably has no issue with the CNC machine. Very odd if true. Fascinating build! Useful, practical and creative. Thanks Bob!
