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We Shout! Hi guys. It’s been more than a year since I came up with the idea and almost exactly a year since I started building these lovely lamps. Tonight I finished the boring stuff, fitting, adjusting, securing and some minor paint touch ups. I put them in my dads workshop where I have spent almost all the time building them. Thanks dad for lending me tools and stuff, and thanks to everyone else for the encouragement.
Hi, a couple of days ago I had a little accident in the workshop. One of the acrylic pieces shattered and I needed a new one. Sadly I didn’t have any more material so I asked if my dad could get some more for me. Today when I met him, he told me that he had got a piece from his friend, the electrician Dick. He said it was used but that it was usable if I cleaned it from its original print. To my great surprise, that very print was the logo of ABF Göteborg. ABF is a study group organization where me, Emil and Linus all started playing music a long time ago. Its where we formed our first bands and made our first records. So once again, thank you ABF.
The missing piece from the sign above became the N below:
Hi, I’ve been quiet for a while now. The fall of 2009 wrecked all lamp making ambitions but with the release coming up I have continued my work. I have from the start aimed for a LED-based way of making the lamps shine but after numerous attempts I have yet to succeed. While energy saving and easy to manage due to small voltages, the LEDs never quite gave me enough power to make a stage light. I know there are solutions to this problem since there are commercially available LED stage lights but the parts involved are far to expensive for this project. So, I have after much concideration decided to make the lamps shine from regular bulbs. I know this isn’t exactly environment friendly but there are several reasons for my decision. 1. Power - Ordinary light bulbs give a lot more light for a smaller pile of money 2. Speed - Since light bulbs operate at wall socket voltage I don’t need a transformer for the lamps which would have made the lamps fade out rather than just die immediately. 3. Labour - I would need a lot more LEDs than light bulbs to light up the lamps which would mean a lot more work Anyway, I hope you join us the 29th of January for the spectacular release of our first album. /Freppi Hi, I just realized that it’s been like a month since I last wrote something here. And it isn’t like I haven’t done anything, I’ve been working and complaining about it as usual, I just haven’t written. Anyway…last time I posted a a picture of acrylic glass pieces and they look pretty much the same today. What I’ve been working on this time is the finish. The smoothness of the frames. Take a look: When you want to fill holes, in some cases, you need this: So you try to fill the holes the best you can and end up with this: When you want to smooth something out you need a bunch of these: When you’re done with the first to and start with the yellow stuff it kind of look like this: When your about semi happy with the smoothness you move on to this: And end up with: As you all know after seeing the Link gingerbread man, I, Fredrik, am quite handy, if I may say so myself. So in the fall of 2008 I started thinking about making some stage lamps for the band. I wanted them to look like the name so I started thinking on how I would realize them. Since I am no expert in welding or anything I thought MDF (some particle board material) was a good way to go. But I had no blueprints…what to do? Make them! First you have to model the lamps in 3D, I mean drawing by hand is so 20th century. These pics are of the models I did on my computer:
Then you have to make some templates to use so you can saw out the wooden parts. I did that and well, they’re somewhere…Here is what you get when you saw and glue: The corners were a bit hard to do since I had to use a milling machine on them but it was fun! Then you stick your saw in it: And you get this: So you end up with a lot of pieces like these: Sometime in the future they’re gonna be put together in this order: When I’m done with a piece, I usually look like this while I’m saying “Allright!”: (The glasses are both for apperance and for saw dust reasons.) Since you might ask if I don’t, I’ll just tell you. These are just the casings for the lamps and they’re going to be filled with some LED lights and acrylic glass and some other stuff. To be continued I guess. /Freppi |
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