Stephen Oetjen of Antioch, Tennesee
Art Deco CD Lamp

Stephen submitted his entry with this letter:

"I've been collecting CDs for quite a while to make this art-deco style CD lamp.

I used a rope light kit to light them up, and it makes pleasant mood lighting while not melting the CDs, which wouldn't smell so good. I had originally planned to use neon, but cost was prohibitive, and heat build-up might have been a problem.

Fluorescent would have required enlarging the holes in the CDs. I used about 750 CDs for this project."

Here's the pictures Stephen included:

That's a big ass damn stack of CDs. That thing must weight 75 pounds. I can just envision myself, drunk, knocking that over and breaking lots of expensive household items and/or squashing cats.

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