Named after SpaceX Mars Starship, inspired by Vintage Sci-Fi like Buck Rogers, I bring to you my STARSHIP Lamp.
A mix of Steampunk, Vintage Edison Lamps, and Sci-Fi Nostalgia:
STARSHIP
Features:
Vintage Edison Globe style bulb
Wireframe lamp shade
Custom Handcrafted STARSHIP rocket in glimmering silver and copper
Ready-for-Launch Indicator LED lights
On-Off Dimmer with solid Brass dimmer wheel
Massive ‘Launch” base
Cast Iron
Vintage Cloth-Wrapped wire
The Build:
This thing has been rattling around in my head for quite some time, so I was thrilled to finally bring it into reality.
I began with the rocket body; turning it into shape on my vintage Shopsmith in lathe mode. No templates or measurements, just all by eye and feel.
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Shaping and fine sanding of the Starship body complete, its time to attach the rocket fins. Fins are epoxied into a freehand routed groove. Since this is to be painted, a flawless fit between the fin and body were not important. Any gaps etc. were filled in and smoothed out with the epoxy.
All the fins attached.
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Standing tall and looking pretty good.
Masking for paint
Notes – Sanding sealer was used prior to paint. the Silver/Aluminum paint required many coats. The Copper seamed to be a bit less transparent than the silver and took less to cover the fins. The tail of the rocket was originally going to be flat black, but I ended up giving it a faded paint job with red fading into the black to mimic the glow of rocket engines firing up.