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Now that I am done being “Santa’s Workshop” for the year, I thought I would post a little of this years output. These Christmas lights are from an American Association of Woodturners project book. I made them with Dymondwood from hutt products , a little bit of Yellowheart for the base and a small length of oak dowel for gripping in the chuck and forming a small tip for the “screw in” part of the base.
Out of all of the bowls and pepper mills and various oddities I produced this year, these where by far the most popular (I made about 30 of them in 3 different colors). They were also the easiest to make. Once they where glued up it took me about 30 minutes to finish one. The Dymond wood polishes up to a glass like finish so I didn’t bother to put a clear finish on top.
I already have new people asking for them next year. :-)
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Mark Shymanski
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#1 posted 1631 days ago
Are they LED, series or parallel bulb LOL!
They look great, about how big are they?
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#2 posted 1631 days ago
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.
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#3 posted 1631 days ago
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.
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#4 posted 1631 days ago
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:
TedM
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#5 posted 1631 days ago
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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#6 posted 1631 days ago
Cool idea, nice one.
Woody.
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Jimthecarver
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#7 posted 1631 days ago
What a great idea, I was thinking about the wattage on them babies….lol
Nice job on them.
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hairy
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#8 posted 1631 days ago
Good job! Thanks for showing how it’s done.
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#9 posted 1631 days ago
What a great idea for Christmas. You’ll have to make some chili pepper lights for the summer. Thanks for sharing.
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#10 posted 1630 days ago
These are so cool. I love it. Favorited!
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#11 posted 1622 days ago
what made them so colorful?
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12ftguru
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#12 posted 1622 days ago
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.
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#13 posted 972 days ago
That looks like a great Christmas project.
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#14 posted 972 days ago
very inventive and so darn cute!
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#15 posted 972 days ago
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.
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