Wood and Resin LED Seascape Lamp

As some of you might know I play engineer for my day job and it can be terribly exiting looking at gray cubical walls all day long, especially when you know the wintry outside is not any better. This winter I want to spice up my workspace cubical and bring a little bit of what I love to do at home into work with me.

This is a decorative LED lamp made from a chunk of rotted wood cast in resin epoxy to look like a seascape or mountain view. I cast the epoxy without removing all the bubbles with the hope that it would look like water and diffuse the light from the color changing LED strip that is hidden inside the molding.

The wood is a chunk of cherry wood what was starting to rot and was quite soft in some areas but these also carried the most character so I wanted to use it to display the beautiful figure. I used Minwax wood hardener to harden the rotted areas. This stuff smells like a very diluted CA clue so I think it is literally gluing the wood back together again.

After everything was stabilized I flattened the mini wood slab using a router sled. Then built a form using melamine and hot glue to form the epoxy when it was pored. I needed three pours for the epoxy per the manufacturer recommendation. The LEDs are a color changing strip that I got from amazon and mounted in some molding in which I channeled a groove to cover the strip and the controller.

The light turned out beautiful and quite a few people have asked me about it and how it was made. It is not for casting light in a dark area but for accenting a location and bringing some cheer to the atmosphere!

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