They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, what I try to do is widen the audience. This lamp originated with an espresso machine piston and a brass toilet tank valve, elements that were originally hidden in their intended operation. I used the espresso piston to hold the lamp socket, and set it inside an antique bottle. The toilet valve then went into the neck of the bottle to direct the wires and to support the lamp head in conjunction with an aircraft pipe clamp and a rocker arm support from a jeep F-head engine. I dressed that up with two jeep distributer gears, and then welded sections from a jeep flywheel ring gear down to a jeep crank shaft pulley. That got inset into a 4″ pipe coupling mounted on a jeep differential ring gear. Two sections of copper pipe held in place with heavy gauge copper wire hide the electrical wiring as it travels down to the base. I then moved back up and made the lamp shroud by affixing sections of glass bottles trimmed with copper wire to a pair of crank shaft bearings. To finish it off I needed to come up with a switch, and rather than settle for a simple toggle, I opted for a key activated switch. Turn the key, and ignite the beauty of the unseen.
9 Bar Welding 