How to make a lamp from old cigar box?
Looking for the correct lamp kit and any tips on creating a lamp from a wooden cigar box. Thank you!
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You could purchase a lamp kit at any home improvement store along with a metal tube to run up through your cigar box to create a lamp and base. Here's a link of a man who built a lamp using several cigar boxes. Though this is likely not your vision (got fairly large) it might help with some of the details. I'm envisioning a regular bulb and lampshade above your one cigar box. Hope this helps and have fun!
What a great idea! I have several cigar boxes in my shop just being lazy. But...Janice has great advice with a lamp kit. I would only add two more ideas. First...put something heavy inside on the bottom so it is not quite so top heavy. Second...use an LED bulb to cut down on the heat that is thrown off by an incandescent bulb.
Hello Dor!
If you'd like to make their own lamp from a bottle, box or anything else, the bottle lighting kits with multiple choices of top adaptors are at hardware stores and Walmart for approximately $6-10. I just made a lamp from a fishing pole!
I hope this helps!
https://www.walmart.com/ip/GE-Bottle-Lamp-Kit-includes-8ft-Cord-Socket-Bottle-Adapters-Fittings-50961/16561522
Wow I love the fishing rod lamp! And thank you for sending the link to the lamp kit.
Hi, I'm trying again to post the cigar box lamp video I mentioned earlier. Hope this link works this time! Grrr!
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yset_widemail_chr_win&p=how+to+make+a+lamp+out+of+cigar+box%3F#id=1&vid=ade88ed7f2e94cb3086d3500addac51f&action=click
Thank you! You were right - this is not exactly what I want to do, but he has a lot of helpful tips. I appreciate it!!