I was talking with a good friend in Colorado, and I brought up a hanging lamp idea I was kicking around. His response was that something like that would be awesome over his patio table. Normally, I make stuff and then hope someone will want it. Having someone say up front that they want whatever I can turn out is infinitely better; so I got to work. The idea was to take an empty r-22 tank and cut openings in it so it would resemble a Chinese paper lantern. The next step was to screen the openings to diffuse the light coming out which I did by riveting in stamped aluminum sheets. The result turned out pretty cool in my opinion, although drilling a hundred and ninety-eight holes on the curved surface of the lamp body so I could set the rivets was no where near as much fun as you might think. Before attaching the aluminum screens, I polished the exterior and then clear-coated it with a ceramic automotive enamel, painted the lamp interior ‘old’ Ford Blue. For the actual light portion, I used a commercial-grade exterior fixture that has it’s own screw-in glass cover and metal cage. Aside from the convenience of being something that I had laying around, I wanted to be confident that it would be as weather-proof as possible. I finished it off with a 20′ cord and an all-weather plug, built a crate, and took it to the post office. The USPS proceed to lose track of the package for over a month, but in the end it arrived undamaged. Suspended from four runs of de-galvanized chain, the chandelier looks like some kind of anachronistic pirate ship cabin lamp, casting just the right amount of light for a Caribbean cruise at the foot of the Colorado Rockies.