Christmas Lights

Are they LED, series or parallel bulb LOL!

They look great, about how big are they?

-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2

heh… if one goes out all the ones behind it go out. ;-)

Overall length is about 2.5 inches. 1.75 of the dymondwood and .75 for the yellowheart. I used an old outdoor Christmas light as a guide.

Not that you would want to plug it in but I am curious…could you thread them into real sockets? I think that would look pretty cool having all these wood bulbs on a real string.

-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2

Sadly no, the “screw threads” are parallel. I suppose you could make a set with a traditional screw base.

For stringing them I just cut the hook off of a fish hook, drilled a hole in the end of the yellowheart and glued the top part of the fish hook into the hole. See below:

Great job! I had similar plans this year but got sidetracked with oher projects. I’ll use this as inpiration for next year. Thanks for sharing.

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Cool idea, nice one.

Woody.

-- Woody, UK

What a great idea, I was thinking about the wattage on them babies….lol
Nice job on them.

-- Can't never could do anything, to try is to advance.

Good job! Thanks for showing how it’s done.

-- It must be jelly baby, cause jam don't shake like that...

What a great idea for Christmas. You’ll have to make some chili pepper lights for the summer. Thanks for sharing.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

These are so cool. I love it. Favorited!

what made them so colorful?

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The color is from the Hutt Dymondwood (See the link in the original post at the top of the page).

I have no idea how they make this stuff and what they do to get the dye so even throughout the wood (I suspect a high pressure infusion system of some kind), but a little bit of polish compound after sanding the wood shines like glass. My wife and I would panic if we dropped one, before remembering that it was wood. :-)

I have also used this type of wood for some small finials on boxes and next I am going to turn a couple of tap handles for my beer dispenser. It’s neat wood to work with, but I very much recommend a dust mask as it produces copious amounts of very fine dust. Sneezing blue for two days is never a good thing.

That looks like a great Christmas project.

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very inventive and so darn cute!

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I am glad everyone likes them. It’s a wonderful and quick turning project for Christmas and I always seem to be making another set for new friends.