Brighter Fusion Blog

The upside to freezing-ass cold weather is lots of time at home to finish up stalled projects.

I’ve been keeping this half-finished globe lamp hanging around for months. I bought the globe from my favorite junk store in Longmont for around $5. It was a bargain because the lens inside which was supposed to focus light on a point of the globe was dangling around in the wrong place. Happy find for me!

I could have easily epoxied it to work the way it was supposed to, but I actually have a second globe which is an exact twin to this one that I inherited from Grandpa (with the aforementioned furniture), and it works as intended.

So I felt easier about destroying this one as a functional visual aid. One probably shouldn’t study it too closely anyway. It’s from 1980.

It gives off a lovely, relaxing orange glow, like a fireplace — a super nice mood lamp!

I finished the wiring, but I still need to make an insert for the hole on the bottom and the ornament for the pull chain. It’s going to be a moon, because I’m just that nerdy. In fact, I’ve been searching for a realistic moon Christmas ornament to use, but they’re all man-in-the-moon or crescent moon motifs (or man-in-the-crescent-moon).

I could easily make a 2-D one by printing out a moon photo, but that would suck. So, I finally bought a big wooden bead and I’ll have to paint it gray and hand paint some craters on it.

Let’s hope we don’t live to see the moon hovering over the South Pole like this one will!