Nitrodude, that "spark, dome thing is now finished. It has almost twice the "stuff" inside it now including a small fan with streamers on it showing it is blowing and a few more tubes. I am kind of proud of it.
At a gallery it will be listed for about $2,800.00.
Those fish sold for $900.00.
At those prices I just make them as a hobby because there is not much profit in them as the gallery gets 50% and they take a lot of hours to build and the parts could be expensive.
Many of my lamps cost me 3 or 4 hundred dollars for parts and after all the work I get half so I am working for like 50 cents an hour.
For the ones with the lit up tubes, I have to drill a hole in the tube with a diamond drill and insert an LED. Some of the tubes turn black when you do that and I have to carefully cut off the glass and clean the inside. It's a lot of delicate work.
In the dome thing, I hollowed out that vintage carburetor (I think it was from a tractor) so I could mount the electronics inside it.
The "meat grinder" piece was just a joke for fun but all those coins are soldered together. Try to do that and hold them in position
The base is reinforced poured concrete which I had to build a mold for, then I covered it in clear epoxy.
I am bringing my last 4 pieces to the gallery here today where the owner will take pictures of them for an eventual showing.
At a gallery it will be listed for about $2,800.00.
Those fish sold for $900.00.
At those prices I just make them as a hobby because there is not much profit in them as the gallery gets 50% and they take a lot of hours to build and the parts could be expensive.
Many of my lamps cost me 3 or 4 hundred dollars for parts and after all the work I get half so I am working for like 50 cents an hour.
For the ones with the lit up tubes, I have to drill a hole in the tube with a diamond drill and insert an LED. Some of the tubes turn black when you do that and I have to carefully cut off the glass and clean the inside. It's a lot of delicate work.
In the dome thing, I hollowed out that vintage carburetor (I think it was from a tractor) so I could mount the electronics inside it.
The "meat grinder" piece was just a joke for fun but all those coins are soldered together. Try to do that and hold them in position
The base is reinforced poured concrete which I had to build a mold for, then I covered it in clear epoxy.
I am bringing my last 4 pieces to the gallery here today where the owner will take pictures of them for an eventual showing.
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