Light Cage

A lamp made of walnut, balsa wood and paper.

I sawed a piece of walnut into small boards

and the small boards into small sticks, using a cross cut sled and a push block.

the height of the saw blade is the half of the stick

Make a first cut

Add a spacer and make your second cut.
The width of the spacer = the thickness of the sticks minus the thickness of your table saw blade

Make a third cut between.

Sand everything and glue it together with wood glue.

For the cages I used CA-glue. But this was not a good idea. Next time I will use wood glue.

The inner cage got an extra frame of balsawood.

Balsawood is awesome! You can cut it in strips easier than paper. And it sticks perfect with wood glue.

I painted all with water stain (walnut color). The effect is, the balsawood looks like the walnut.

The paper was normal printing paper.

I glued it only on the bottom and on the top of the cage with wood glue

Four sticks glued on the middle section (2 over and 2 under) of the medium cage hold everything together.

I glued 3 boards together

Sawed it and drilled holes

To cut the edges, I used a extra high table saw fence.

After sanding and painting, I added a piece of wood as a pedestal.

I put four long sticks (the end was rounded with a knife) in the holes of the base.

and glued a cross on them.

Then I glued the cage on the cross.

I pulled a cable through the cage and two O-rings on the side and added a switch.

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This is my entry for the "FULL SPECTRUM LASER CONTEST 2016". If you like it, please vote for it.

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(Please excuse my poor English)