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From: "carr0023@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <carr0023@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 22:31:10 CST
These are basic instructions for how to make a hanging light.
The cost should be around US $15.
Materials List: 15 foot brown extension cord
some brown e-tape
one light bulb socket with e-prongs
one @100 watt silver reflector light bulb
one pie tin @ 10 inches diameter
50 feet of thin metal wire and wire clipper
double-sided clear tape, one roll
regular clear tape, one roll
10 small-medium twigs with secondary branches
50 regional soft fall leaves, many, various colors.
Instructions:
1) Wait till the Fall.
2) Drink lots of coffee, and go outside by trees.
3) smoke cigarettes, dodge cars, and look at the ground.
While looking at the ground, look for colored leaves.
Locate a unique leaf of some quality and beauty.
4) Pick up the leaf.
5) Look up and see if anybody is watching you,
If so, put the leaf down, and run away.
If not, go to step 6.
6) Goto step 4. until you have 50 leaves, then advance.
7) Smoke a cigarette, look at the ground for twigs.
Pick up small-medium twigs, break bigger branches twigs
off if the individual twig population is low, advance
to step 8 after 10 twigs.
8) Go home, making sure nobody sees you carrying 50 leaves
and ten twigs; if so, drop them and run home; if not,
advance to step 9.
9) Bring materials inside the home. Go to the hardware
store and decide if you really want to make this lamp.
Put the money down, and advance to 10.
10) Go back home, with hardware. Get setup, relax, listen
to inspirational music or edward demming tapes.
11) Start project...
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A. Attach light socket (w/out bulb) to extension cord.
B. take pie tin, which will act as a reflector, and clip a hole in
the middle of the tin, in which the light socket will fit.
-----------------------E-cord---
\
____|||____ tape the light socket onto the
pie-tin --> / ^ \ pie tin, so that it acts as one
hole thing. <bend tin up and tape
the e-cord and socket to this>
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C. Punch 4 holes around the outer perimeter of the pie-tims curved edge.
make a general wire framing, as a lamp shade, upon which the leaves
will be able to rest when settled.
-----------------------E-cord---
\
____|||____
pie-tin --> /___.____.__\
/_/__|__|_|\__\
/___/_|_|__|__\_\ <---- wire frame suspended from
pie-tin, generally acting
as a lamp-shade structure.
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D. Tape first leaves on the outside of the pie-tin reflector, taping
the stems of each leave in a distance of 1/2 leave around the tin.
use single sided tape for this tape job.
-----------------------E-cord---
\
____|||____
taped leaf-->/-_-|-_|-_-|-\\
()_/() () _()__() then use add other leaves on
/___/_|_|__|__\_\ top of these leaves, and even
above these, covering up the
tin and the wire framing.
use doulbe-stick tape ontop thus, many leaves to cover up
the base-leaf and under the the structure and the tin, but
added leaf, and possibly to it is not necessary to reach
blend leaf qualities; from the e-cord with the leaves,
green-brown-red together. that is for the twigs.
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E. When lamp is fully leaf layered, add twigs at a rough distance of
one foot above the pie-tin (onto the extension cord w/e-tape) and
wrap with e-tape to the e-cord, while bringing twigs non-structurally
down the outside of the leaf lamps canopy, as if it is structuring;
or a continuation of the e-cord.
-----------------------E-cord---
\
/| <-- e-tape twigs to e-cord
___/ |\____
/ / | \ \_
/\()()()()()() \_
pie-tin --/ ()()()()()()()| \ <-- position as desired
\()()()()()()()() /
()()()()()()()()()
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F. Whew! Forgot to mention, hang the e-cord from a eye-screw in the
ceiling so that you are not holding the fragile fixture while working
on its decoration. Now, it is almost done, this e-light, faux o'
Tiffany, you will see...
Now place the reflector lightbulb in the socket and plug the light
into a source of e-power. Light is practical 4-5 feet above reading
level, yet is best if low and the underside is for the most part
unexposed because of glare. Highly recommended to hang the e-cord;
the longer the better; from eye-screws from a ceiling structure, and
plug canopy light, o'tiffany, in as event of fire-hazard and delight.
in memory of 94
oh, feel free to replace real leaf with artificial leaf of oil, or
also freedom in the use of shellac or anything of that nature, for
less temporary constructions.
bc