Industrial Bedside Lamp

I love working with wood and metal and I love lamps. What better way to combine both than building an industrial style bedside lamp from wood, a pipe and a wrench?

Resources:

a light bulb

a light bulb socket

a switch

a plug

a big wrench

a short malleable iron pipe with an end cap

a piece of wood (I used oak)

two pieces of sheet steel

an electric motor (not necessary)

screws

Tools:

a router

a drill

sandpaper

a saw for wood (jigsaw / table saw ...)

something to cut metal (tin snips / jigsaw / angle grinder ..)

a 3d printer

At first I used my jigsaw to cut the wood to size. After a little cleanup with sandpaper, I turned the board over and hollowed it out with my router, making place for the switch and the cables. Next I drilled a big hole for the pipe to screw in. It doesn't have to be perfect, as everything is going to be covered up later on.

For attaching the wrench to the pipe, I used my 3d printer to print out a little piece, that can be glued to the outside of the pipe, that the ring of the wrench fits onto.

But before glueing it all together, I drilled a hole into the pipe and also in the middle of the wrench for the cable to go through.

After that was done, with some 5-minute-epoxy all the parts can be glued together. The plastic part is held to the pipe with zip ties. To cover up some of the plastic, I glued the front side of the same motor to the ring of the wrench.

Lastly, the end cap can be screwed to the upper thread of the pipe.

First, I passed the cable through the pipe, out of the little hole I drilled, through the hole in the wrench and over its jaw. On the end I attached the lamp socket and fixed the cable in place with some copper wire from the electric motor . Then it was time to screw the pipe into the wood. It's starting to look like a lamp!

For esthatics, I again took a part of the electric motor and attached it to the switch with a screw and some glue. I then cut a piece of the sheet steel and drilled a few holes in it. Four small ones on the cornes for screws and a big one on the inside for the switch. I decided to spray paint it black, but that it would also have looked great if i left it sanded. With some more epoxy, the switch can now be glued to the steel.

With four small screws I attached my beautiful switch to the wood and wired everything up. As I'm not an electrician, I'm not going to tell you how I did that.

Because leaving all the wires exposed isn't that great, I used another piece of sheet steel to cover it all up and screw to the bottom of the wood.

DONE!!!