Lamp to Speaker Tower

I couple years ago I got a lamp at a garage sale and never really used it. So I decided to turn it into some actually useful and this is what I came up with.....a speaker tower!!

First you need to get the stuff you need. ~Pliers ~Screw Drivers (Different sizes) ~Hot Glue Gun (you can use regular glue but this seemed to work well) ~Speakers ~Copper wire ~Soldering Kit ~A piece of styrofoam (you don't need it now but you might want it eventually if you want a stand for your Ipod) ~Stereo Phone Plug ~Female Crimp-on things (Got these and the phone plug at Radio Shack

Before you can go in and start putting things on the lamp you have to gut it. I started with taking out the light bulbs and their sockets. Once this was done I cut off the wall plug and pull the rest of the wire out the bottom using the pliers.

So now that you have the empty shell of the lamp cut the wire to shape and connect the wire to the phone plug. I found soldering was good because it was fairly easy and pretty reliable.

Before I could connect the wire to the speakers I had to string it through the lamp. Once the wire was in I used the pliers to pull it back out of the holes that the old wire was in. Now I was able to connect the wire to the speaker. I first connected the word to the crimp-on things, thinking that I would be able to take them off the speakers if needed. But the crimp-on things kept on falling off, so I decided to just solder the wire onto it. And that worked so I did the same on the second speaker.

Now it all connected so I took it for a test run and it worked! So next I put the speaker in the lamp and screwed three screw into it to hold the speaker in.

The last thing I did was make a stand for my iPod out off styrofoam, using a razor knife to cut it to shape. And lastly hot glued it into the lamp.

Finally your finished it took me about 3 hours to make but you were probably faster because I was making up as I went. Now screw everything back together, plug in your iPod, and sit back and enjoy your music!!