I’m messing around with making light shades out of very thin strips of wood held in place (and together) with shellac, using a 5 gallon bucket as a form. Does anyone have an idea of what to line or coat the bucket with so my shade doesn’t end up fused to it?
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two layers of wax paper so that they slide over each other.
Wax the inside of the bucket ( or outside) wax and shellac go hand in hand. Paste finishing wax , Minwax, Johnsons, Butchers, Bowling ally, that type, not Turtle shell.
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Excellent. I've got some bowling ally wax onhand. If they work out I'll post pix. Actually, if it fails badly the pix will probably be better.
I wanna see it after the light bulb heat makes the shellac softenn.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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Yeah, I'm making some prototypes to see what the parameters are. These will have LV lights, perhaps even some LEDs lights I scored for free. Still might not fly, but thought I would try.At what temp does shellac melt, or begin to soften? I know my medium soldering irons make it boil in a few secs, but it is probably 450 or more, no?
Hell, I dunno, I never cooked up a pot of boiling shellac ( yet).
I'm sure cool bulbs will be OK, I was just making a funny.
Might wanna add a few more coats after the initial set up tho'. Just don't get it wet enough to redissolve the glue aspect.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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For sure on the additional coats. Might spray some on later. I think the stuff I used tonight was cut too thin, but I was playing to see of the increased alcohol would help penetrate to help the strips hold their shape.
I have the opposite problem with increased alcohol, I get ALL outta shape. (G)Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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So what if the whole enterprise is an excuse to drink beer in the basement--is that so wrong?
Cool! An organic lava lamp.
Maybe a couple of 200 watt halogen work lights would be better after all!I'm fooling around with making lamps and light fixtures out of recycled and repurposed stuff, but don't like the idea of traditional shades, as reclaimed ones would be pretty beat up and not really the look I'm chasing. Could turn out to be a dry hole, but I was able to set up my new Festool repeater to rip 40 1/16" strips of plyboo in few minutes yesterday, so I got that going for me.