Lamps lamps lamps
Lamps are easy to make and I enjoy making them. I started off with a concrete lamp that I saw on Etsy. The mold is relatively easy to make and hardware such as pvc piping and rebar can be sourced locally. The dish shape in the middle is given by keeping sand in the concrete mold and once the concrete solidifies, the sand is chipped off. The only disadvantage of having a concrete lamp is that its very heavy to move around but will last you a lifetime.
For my next concrete lamp, I had a completely different idea. Here the two concrete slabs don’t meet each other and are held together only by the rebar. Again, the mold was relatively easy to make and all the material was sourced locally except for the Edison bulbs that I bought off Temu. You will have to use a rebar tie tool and rebar wire to hold the rebar together. The rebar that i sourced from homedepot was green epoxy coated so i had to paint it black.
For my third concrete lamp, I used a plastic bucket as my mold. The lamp looks tilted in the picture but is as straight as a ramrod. This lamp has no rebar in it.
For the next concrete lamp, I wanted something small with an oversized lampshade. The concrete has rebar and the dish shape is created by keeping sand in the mold. Once the concrete solidifies, the sand is chipped off to give the lamp a dish shape.
I had a bunch of demijohns that I sourced from a local wine maker. The hardest part was cleaning the wine stains off of it.
I used an old 302 small block valve cover to make it into a floor lamp using a ½” NPT tubing. The floor lamp sits on a 12” brake rotor and the ½” tube is welded to it using a flange. The valve cover lamp has a breather filter as well.
For the next project, I used a 351 small bock valve cover to make it into a floor lamp. This one does not have a breather filter. The tube and the fittings are all ½” NPT welded to a 12” brake rotor.
Valve covers come in pairs so the other set of the 302 and 351 sbf valve cover were made into table lamps. Both the table lamps use a ½” NPT tube and are welded to a sbc crankshaft pulley. The hardest part of this project was refurbishing the old valve covers-stripping off the old paint and re painting them.
I used a Garrett turbo off a Detroit diesel engine, added a cold air intake filter and made it into a turbo lamp. The turbo is welded to a crankshaft pulley which serves as the base.
Similarly, I used a Borg-Warner turbo and made it into a turbo lamp as well. The turbo is welded to a sprocket at the bottom which serves as the base.
For my next project I used a camshaft off a 351 sbf motor and slapped a 10” edelbrock air filter to make it into a lamp. The camshaft is welded onto a crankshaft pulley from a sbc which serves as the base.
