Spotlight on Music

This is my first Instructable.

Because this is a recycling project, using stuff lying around the house, the instructions are specific to my project. Yours will be different.

My youngest son play guitar, so I made him a lamp for Christmas.

It consists of four basic parts:

* An old, broken guitar, found on Kijiji for $20. It took 5 minutes to glue, 20 minutes to clamp and about 1 minute to drill a hole in the base. * A clamp-on lamp, scrounged from my workshop. * A heavy base, salvaged from a long-ago, broken lamp. * a 1/4 inch machine screw, with nut and washer.

Well, this is the easiest part, obviously. Its not a particularly fancy clamp light, but it is hanging on to the headstock quite tightly.

This base is quite heavy, having come from an old Ikea floor lamp.

I drilled a 1/4 inch hole in the bottom of the guitar. This matched the diameter of the hole in the base.

The trickiest part was sticking my hand into the guitar to attach the washer and nut to the machine screw. I held the screw at the base with a screw driver, and gently tightened the nut from the inside with a nut driver. I used a bit of care to not overtighten the nut, given that the wood of the guitar body is quite thin. And because there is still a very gentle curve in the guitar body at this point, the washer dug into the wood a bit. It is secure but not overly solid. This should not be a problem as the lamp won't be moved regularly.