B.Light Design

Been working on those oak blanks. Done with the turning and first coat of finish is on, in a couple of days they’ll be wired up.

I’ve been working on a prototype for an LED Star Light Mini. There is a magnet on the back, lights turn on and off when spun around. I want to cover a whole wall with these and have people interact with them.

Some pics below of the build process.

I turned some green oak blanks this weekend, my shop smelled like a bourbon barrel. These will eventually be lamps, mallets, and maybe a wooden robot or two.

I’m working on a jig to cut the ends off of wine bottles. I plan on using the tube of the bottle as a glass lamp shade.

The bottle spins on two rolling pins (still usable) while a glass cutter etches the bottle. I was inspired by this wine bottle cutting video (the technique is shown around the 6 min. mark) I saw on Make.

Made some lamp cords over the weekend. I took some black and white wire, chucked it up in a drill, and pulled the trigger. Now I have some Beetle Juice plugs for some new lamps.

Robot sculptures by Gordon Bennette. They are in a store window on 5th Ave at 16th St. Totally worth checking out if you’re in the neighborhood.

I’ve been prototyping a pretty simple lamp using a piece of paper as the shade. A little fine tuning is still needed to get the dimensions right, but I’m liking where it’s going. I’ll probably group three or four of these lamps together with shades made from letter size (8.5″ x 11″) and legal size (8.5″ x 14″) paper.

Maybe go the kit route, I make the lamp base, you build the shade. More to come.

You can never have enough hammers. I’ve got a hammer thing going on these days.

I’ve been making wooden mallets lately. Mostly out of oak, mostly for food preparation (meat tenderizing, etc). I just like making them. Maybe designer mallets will be the new designer axes (I have no idea why, but I just want one of those axes real bad).