{"id":135,"date":"2014-07-23T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/led-zepplin-lamp\/"},"modified":"2014-07-23T02:03:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T02:03:00","slug":"led-zepplin-lamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/led-zepplin-lamp\/","title":{"rendered":"LED Zepplin… lamp."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>So I’m not that excited about the lamp currently in our front hall, and I wanted to steampunk it up. I decided a while ago to make a zepplin lamp. It’ll be lit with LED bulbs.. so.. it is technically a LED Zepplin.<\/p>\n

I started with a three and a half foot dowel and many two foot lengths of 1\/2″ x 1\/16″ basswood. I glued and threaded the pieces together with brown fishing line (Power Pro!) to make ten 5 foot struts.<\/p>\n

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Close up of one of the joins in the basswood<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I cut out end pieces from brass sheet and screwed them into the dowels, and then used machine screws and nuts to attach the struts to them.<\/p>\n

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I also cut a propeller out of the brass and used a longer screw and some wooden spools to make it look pretty good.<\/p>\n

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I used basket reed for the ribs, again gluing them and tying them with fishing line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Close up of the join<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This is where it’s at right now, after adding the inital wiring for the lights inside.<\/p>\n

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I still have to cover the frame with rice paper mache, and make the gondola. I have a good start on the net that will go over the top and attach to the gondolla:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Waxed linen thread net<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I’ll hopefully update after this weekend with a much more complete LED Zepplin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’m not that excited about the lamp currently in our front hall, and I wanted to steampunk it up. I decided a while ago to make a zepplin lamp. It’ll be lit with LED bulbs.. so.. it is technically a LED Zepplin. I started with a three and a half foot dowel and many… Read More »LED Zepplin… lamp.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":""},"categories":[4,54,32,53,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tashajaeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}