Hey, I'm Bob, and I like to make stuff today we're gon na make a lamp out of resin and wood for quite a while. Now I've wanted to make a new lamp to put on my bedside table, but one of the things about me is that tend to make things that are practical and functional and worried about how they look or just the artistic value of something last. So the purpose of this entire lamp is just to put out light. That'S the easy part! What I want to work on is trying to make the rest of the lamp, something that is purely just interesting to look at and I've got a plan. So, let's see if it'll work, we've got a simple lamp here, basically just a shade at the top of the light in it and then a wire, that's gon na run down through the body of the lamp. So one necessary thing is to put a pipe down the very center of it. We'Re gon na take advantage of this Center pipe and actually use it as the middle of a spiral staircase. I think I'm gon na make the body of the lamp out of a big block of resin and inside that resin. I'M gon na put this pipe, but then also take some pieces of wood and stagger them around so that when you look at it from the side, it looks like they spiral up and around and then, when the light comes down through the clear resin, it should Shine on the top of each one of those stairs, but also create a shadow underneath it like. I said this is only because I want to try to come up with something that's just purely interesting to look at. Let'S give it a shot and see if we can make it happen. The light part of this lamp is the simple part and I'll show you that in just a second, but I also wanted to explain these. I'M gon na use these pieces of pipe, and these came with a ceiling light that we got a long time ago. It was made to hang in a really tall ceiling, but we have a short ceiling. These extra pieces came with it and it held onto them because they have a female thread on the top and a male on the bottom, so that you can stack them up. The reason I'm pointing that out is because often light fixtures will come with extra material. Like this, that you can hang on to and use later, these are pipes, they're hollow so eventually I'll screw them together, cut them off to the right length, and then this wire from a wire kit will go up through them. The wire kit has everything you need. It'S got the wire with the plug on the end, it's got this really simple fixture the wires just get screwed into these terminals. The light bulb goes in there and you've got a light. It also comes with mounting hardware so that you can mount that in there. This piece up here holds the shade: it's everything you need for just a few dollars. The first step here is to figure out the diameter of this, and then I'm gon na make a template for each one of the little stairs. That'S going to be mounted on this and we'll rotate up around it. So I'm going to use some CalPERS to find out this size. Then felix furniture can figure out which drill bit. I need to drill the hole to go around them. It'S basically just about a half of an inch, so I'll go the next size up and then, when I glue those pieces on, I can fill any extra gap with some epoxy. We started working on the template and this is gon na represent each one of the stairs. That'S going to go around this pole, we've got a center hole marked here, we'll drill that out that's going to be the center of this pole. We'Ve also got angles cut on the sides, all the measurements we need, but eventually we're just going to trace this onto a piece of walnut, cut it down into sections and then on each one of those sections will add the miters drill the hole and then take It to the bandsaw and resell it down into individual slivers that are this thick [ Music ]. I tried to get really close to the line, but that saw blade just leaves a rough edge. So we're going to take these to the sander and sand right up to that line on each side to get a nice and smooth [ Music ]. I was planning on drilling the holes in this, but unfortunately, this outside diameter is kind of in between sizes, and so I ordered a different drill bit. That'S gon na be the right one that should show up later on today, so we're gon na wait on these. In the meantime, we're gon na start working on the form to put this entire thing in so I've got this piece of sewer pipe. This is six inches in diameter, which is about what we're gon na want for the base of the lamp. So I need to figure out a way to get my metal piece centered in this and make this so that can be poured and then put on the lathe to do that. We'Re gon na cut out a plug that goes inside this pipe. So it's gon na fit in there and then on the underside of that plug we're also gon na make a little tenon that can fit into the Chuck jaws on the lathe. I'M trying to plan ahead to make sure that we can turn it the way we want everything's mounted inside of it, because once we pour that epoxy, we can't go back to get this on the lathe, so we can turn it down to a circle. I need to put this faceplate on here, but that means I need to find the center of it and then knock off the edges, so there's less to turn. So the first step here is gon na be to find the center. We have a bits, video about finding the center of different shapes if you want, but on a square. It'S super easy. You just make diagonals from the corners and where they intersect is the center point. [, Music ]. I cut this pipe down to what I think is going to be its final length, and that's mainly so that I can hold it up here and, as I turn down this plug, I can make sure that's going to fit on the inside [ Music ]. I got this thing turned down to the right size, so that acts as a plug and goes in the pipe, but we also have a little hole made by this spike right in the center of the piece. Now that's going to work out really well, because I can drill that out the right size to put my pipe down in that way, the pipe will be embedded in the mold held at the bottom. When I pour the epoxy I'll just keep this thing handy, because once we get it poured and take it out of the mold, we'll just put that stock back on here and mount it back on the lathe. Now this is the hole that we'll get to drill out for the big post later on over the weekend. I got in this drill bit, which is a very specific size, to match the rod that we have so now. We can go ahead and drill the hole in the center of this plate and in each one of these wedges [ Music, ] [, Music ]. I think we've got all of our different pieces ready now, so we're gon na start assembling this and hopefully put it in the form and start pouring some epoxy. The first thing is to put this post in here, but I noticed once I stuck it in there that it actually isn't perpendicular to this base. That would mean that the entire lamp would be skewed, so we have to make sure that this is square to the base, which means I'm probably have to use some super glue or something to hold it in that position before we start putting anything else on the Good thing is: if I use glue around this bottom, it should also seal up that a little bit, so the epoxy won't leak down through that hole, [, Music, ]. What we've got here is all of the steps that are going to drop down over this. Then we made a little spacer now. This spacer has a Ledge on one side, so this can sit right up against this outside edge, and then that tells us where the next one goes so we'll drop the next one down on top of it and it'll just line up with the outside we're going To use a little bit of glue on these to hold them in place, eventually, the epoxy will just sandwich everything together, but I think some glue and some activator will hold them. While we get the whole thing built. [ Music ] the pipes gon na fit down over this little flange that I made so I'm gon na put on some caulking along this edge to kind of seal it up to make sure the epoxy doesn't pop at the bottom [ Music ]. I want to try to figure out a way to get this separated from the epoxy once it cures up, so I'm gon na put some mold release on the inside. Hopefully we can get this to peel off, otherwise we always have to put the whole thing on the lathe and turn this off [ Music ]. Now it's time for the big epoxy pour now I've done this before, but I haven't done it this much at one time we're gon na be pouring about five and a half inches tall of this entire diameter. It'S a lot of epoxy and probably a little bit more than what this thick set is supposed to be used for we're gon na try it anyway we're gon na mix it up, pour it in here and then swirl it around to try to get all the Air bubbles from underneath the steps to come up to the sides, then we're gon na put this entire thing in a pressure pot, [, Music, ]. The purpose of the pressure pot is to make all of the air bubbles on the inside of the pot smaller. It'S pressurizing them squeezing them down. Hopefully, they'll be small enough that you can't really see him once the epoxy sets up [ Music, ], [, Music ]. This thing is finally out of the pressure pot and it's actually really heavy. I ended up doing three separate pours. So there are three different layers. Hopefully you won't be able to see too much of a difference between those pours, but actually looking down in here. I can already see some tiny bubbles in between the last two. Unfortunately, there's just gon na be some bubbles in this. We'Re just gon na have to go with it now. The next step is to get it out of this mold, I'm going to try the bandsaw and see if I can score this piece of pipe and crack it off so that I don't have to turn off the entire thing on the lathe [ Music ] got The mold off and so far it looks terrible there's something happened on the middle poor and there were some voids on the side and then the epoxy from the top pour kind of went around them. So there's this really gooey layer on the outside of it. Luckily it's just on the outside and is not the entire center there's a bunch of air bubbles. The whole thing doesn't really look as clear as I expected, but luckily we still have to let it cure, put it on the lathe and then turn off the outside of it. So we should be able to get it down to a cylinder, get rid of all the stuff. That'S on the outside clean up the top, and hopefully it will end up looking better than it does right now: [, Music, ], [ Applause, ] after a whole. Lot of turning, I finally got this thing down to basically a cylinder. It'S pretty close. I had to turn off a lot more than I expected because there was a big chip in the middle and I had to get down past that so it's a little bit smaller on the outside than I wanted, but it's in pretty good shape. Now it's really cloudy and so we're gon na cover it with couple coats of gloss varnish, we're just gon na paint this on the outside, while it's turning really slowly so there's no drips [ Music ]. While I'm waiting on the varnish to dry, I'm gon na move on to these pieces, I don't really like this shiny brass gold thing, so we're gon na go ahead and spray paint these with a matte black. It'S gon na be covered up by a shade. So you won't really see it anyway, but it will just cover up this nasty color, [, Music, ]. Here'S where we're at I spent a lot of time. Sanding this thing trying to get it flat. I used micro mesh, which are really high grit. The foam pads with some water trying to get it nice and smooth and get to a point, but basically it's not really worth going any farther. I'M gon na go ahead and finish this, but I am pretty disappointed. Here'S why I knew that there would be some bubbles underneath these steps and that's okay, that's not a huge deal. The thing that I'm really disappointed about is the coloration on the inside of the epoxy, and this is not the epoxies fault. Basically, what I think happened was that the walnut oil seeped out of the pieces of walnut into the epoxy as it was curing. There is a way around this. I just didn't take the time to do it. The thing to do would be to stabilize the pieces of wood and that's where you impregnate them with a resin or an oil, to stop any air bubbles on the inside of them from leaking out and also stop any of the oils that are inside the wood. From penetrating the area around, you could stabilize those pieces, but it is kind of a long process and you need some special equipment. You could also just coat them in a clear coat to kind of seal up the outside. That'S probably what I should have done. It would've been a lot faster and would have saved me some headache, but it is what it is. This is where I'm at now, so I'm going to keep moving this lamp kit is made to thread down into another piece of pipe, and it's not the right size for this. It'S really close, though, so I think what I'm going to do is file off these threads, to make it a little bit smaller, fit it down in there and use some five-minute epoxy to lock it into place. [ Music, ]. I'Ve got this glued on it now before we can put the wire up through here, there's got to be a place for the wire to come out of at the bottom, so I've got to cut some sort of a channel here that lines up with that center Post and that way, I can feed the wire through [ Music, ] [, Music ]. So here it is the finished lamp now this was basically about making the base doing the lamp work and all that stuff is really simple and you could add that to any sort of a creative base that you want to come up with the big thing I Learned on this project was that, no matter what kind of wood you're using there's always a chance that the oil could leak out of it into the epoxy, even though that's never happened to me before so in the future, I'm always gon na coat or stabilize the Wood before I put it into the epoxy, this was a really cool experiment and I learned a whole lot of stuff from it. If you learn some stuff, I would love to hear about it as well down in the comments we've got tons of other types of projects that you may want to check out so be sure to look at those videos and if you're not subscribed. Please do that as well. That'S it for this one. Thanks for watching, see you next time. I tried to get really close to the line on these, but that saw blade is gon na leave a little little come on set okay, but the good thing here is, if I put keep once a soap and on top of it, and it go right there, It good to go right. There, hey, I'm Bob and I like to