Ocean themed Deck Lantern

[Russ K]

Last summer I was playing around with the Plasma Cam automatic polyhedron shape generating feature and thought I'd cut one out just to see how it went. I cut it 5 7/16" per side out of 11G metal. After I had tacked it all together and was thinking "What Now", I decided to make a Sea Themed Deck Lantern. It is about 16"max dia. and 17" high sans handle. A 12"white glass globe just fits inside with room to spare. It could be easily plumbed for a wired fixture but I elected to use a 12 LED battery powered puck light from Lowes. Small, bright and long lasting, you can turn it on and put it anywhere without cords. I welded a ring inside to center the globe and hold the LED. Added a latch, hinge, stand and handle and had it powder coated. The panels have 2 sturgeon, a limpet shell, scallop shell, crab with snail shell, octopus, sand dollar, otter and kelp, sea turtle, dolphin family, salmon chasing bait, grey whale family, baitfish school, and a seagull on a piling. Many comments and offers to buy but the Wif has claimed it. Oh well. Haven't seen a deck lantern on the site yet so I thought I'd post this..............RK

[Bobcat320]

Nice!

[dekoch]

Well Done. Like the lamp idea.

[TexasDano]

Nice work Russ.

[East German]

Very Nice
Good Idea
I must not show my wife!

Regards Peter

[michmetalman]

This is badass! I would love the file!

[redduke]

That's really awesome! Sharp work!

[james.davis]

What a great idea Russ.Thanks for sharing.
Jim
Gives me a lot of ideas.

[Zippo]

sweet