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split the lamp in half long wise behind the darker band, then space the top half and lower half far enough apart that your LEDs will be recessed so it looks smooth, this will also force the light to reflect off the center panel.. your art form is amazing, truly inspiring.. please keep pushing your designs.. thank you for all that you do.

Felt potential disaster awaiting as soon as the project idea was presented, immediately I questioned “how is Shaun ever gonna lay on a light?“ ~Smile oN

Despite you not liking the LED guts the view from almost every angle looks great! Well done Shaun!

I highly recommend getting thin, self adhesive COB Led strips, and doing multiple loops across the inside. They are super pretty and even when you look at them directly, it looks like a continuous glowing string without any cables or fixtures etc.

I did have thought Shaun. Why not route a channel in the inside in the centre- the thick bit - inset the LED’s and cover with a directional diffuser. It would then shine onto the centre and not be visible from below. Still a great build👍

Caulking tip for you Shaun: Instead of 'dragging' the caulking tip, and having to go back and tool with your finger, instead, PUSH the tip along while applying the caulk. Watch carefully as you go and don't apply too much caulk. Practice with this technique a bit and you'll (almost) never have to tool a caulk joint again.

Great design as always Shaun. Although im suprised no one else has mentioned that you could of just bought a white sheet of arcrylic/perspex cut to size. Would have saved you hell of a lot of time, money and materials.

My immediate reaction would be to split the inner fixture, and use that to create a recess to hide most of the LED strip, since you've currently got a decorative, but non-functional accent strip. By augmenting that with an inner accent strip, you could hide almost all of the visible LED strip. With this, the main challenge would be whether enough of the resin panel is illuminated to provide good light.

This creation is beautiful ! Don't be so hard on yourself. Seriously.

May I suggest the following.... de-montage the white epoxy panel ..plane the top edge really plane and sand as smooth as possible (by hand NOT with Your Mirka!) ..then place on this "edge" a strip of LED lighting ( check if the lighting needs more oumpf or not) ...when this gives You suffient light on the table, I am sure You can add an suteble enclosure for the nasty LED strip on top! The way this should work is by scattering light on the white pigment particals in the epoxy mass. Greetings from a retyred ophthalmist in the Netherlands🤓

Not a woodworker but: -Remove the contrasting end piece -Saw the lamp in two halves horizontally. -Use a router to recess half the LED channel in each half of the armature. -Use a router to recess half of the cable diameter in the round pieces. -Reassemble, using the contrasting end piece to hide the cut. Also there's diffusers that will mask the individual LED elements a bit. Also, nice lamp!

When I saw the design first, I thought the middle contrast oval ring is to strengthen the slot for led inside. So if you make a second version, you can create a lot inside and try to inlay the led strip. Design looks awesome!

I think I know a good solution to your light issue. Make it glow from the inside. You make a similar epoxy panel, but completely transparent. You round the edges, then you sand-blast it, making the surface matte. Then you slice it in half length-wise, right in the middle. Which will give you two pieces each with a transparent long edge. That's where you make the LEDs shine. So you have two strips of LEDs: one shining up into the upper half, one shining down into the lower half. And the LED strips are in the middle, so they aren't visible.

Shaun I have a fix for this light fixture. Inside flat screen TVs there are sheets that cover the LEDs that backlight the screen. The sheets diffuse the light. If you installed a thin sill of sorts above and below the led stops you would now a piece in between the sills and would completely cover the LEDs on the long portions. You could probably do the same around the curves on the end of it was accordion folded then bowed. Just an idea I thought I’d suggest. Regardless the fixture came out amazing.

Just a thought... the exterior darker colored wood can be made into a bridge connecting a split horizontally the main fixture. Allow say an inch of recess clearance between the split section for fixing the led light strip. It'll be a cleaner built!

For the bonus points it's the best part, just look in your cup after you wake up.

The best part of waking up ☕️ 16:50

Put a ledge on under the led light to hide it from eye sight and then place an angled reflective piece on the top edge of the epoxy to redirect the light more down word. Love the lamp.

4:00 boiling a pot of water and then dunking the peices into the water makes the wood more flexible I had to do a project and I did this to make some curves 5:48 if you scale this up a little bit you can turn it into a coffee table or a media table. Mabey next project idea? Also a possible way to make it so you can't see the lights is get some semi non see throught plexi glass or something of the sorts and glue it to the inside of it

You're a great storyteller (and woodworker)! Happy holidays. I hope 2024 is a great year for you and your family.

Rice or paper screen will help diffuse the light and hide the light components. White glue and then a little mist of water and it’ll tighten up the paper like a drum skin.

You could swap out the epoxy panel for a light sheet or edge lit acrylic. Is a shame as it’s a lovely looking light. Could maybe also use a slimmer LED and set it into the wood instead of screwed to face. You should do a mark 2 build. Shows development and progress. Would be interesting to see

Your macro view of time concept is "lead time" or "cycle time" or "wall clock time" (depending on exactly what you're measuring) and is the best way of measuring your time.

You may not like the "light" part of this lamp, but your design is awesome. It would make an interesting Pool table light. Maybe if you could have angled the white plexi that you made and used a diffuser channel ... I'm no expert. But I would most defintely buy a version 2.0 from you.

Hi Shaun, I absolutely love this design! If I ever make a light like this, your design will be a strong contender. I have a possible solution for your love/hate relationship with this though. It’s something I came up with when retro-fitting an art deco hanging lamp in my dining room. I didn’t want to destroy an antique fixture, but at the same time looking up at the lights inside it was not an aesthetically pleasing experience. So I ordered a sheet of quarter inch frosted polycarbonate (Lexan?) and cut it to fit just inside the perimeter of the lamp. You could do the same and suspend it from the cross bars with (insert favorite method here) I used thin brass strips which matched the brass from which the lamp was made. You would need to cut a slot in the plastic for the epoxy to stick out. But eminently do-able. As I see it there is no need to make a second lamp, just « finish » this one! In case you are wondering, frosted polycarbonate glows nicely when lit from behind. Hope you find this interesting, or even useful. Cheers, Keith

If the center panel were two pieces of etched acrylic with polished edges you could have built a seat for the acrylic to nest into with edge lights pointing both down and up. If your acrylic was thick enough you could probably drill a hole in the top side down to the center connection and maybe get away with it.

Another fix would be an inner ring from that same white plexi piece you have, wide enough to cover the wires, if you look from below you would just see a white ring. Might even help to reflect light.

The light fixture looks like it should be in the David Lynch Dune movie. (This is a compliment).

That is an amazing light! And I personally have had dozens of light fixtures over tables and have rarely sat under them looking up at the working parts, it really is that view in the room we look at along with the quality of the light it gives. I say you nailed this.

Well done, thanks for sharing

So my thoughts on the visible LEDs, first you probably could've gone with cheaper LEDs that don't have all that clunky waterproofing, just the FCB and chips, then while assembling the entire thing before you ratcheted it all together, cut a groove along the inside where the accent band is to nest the LEDs inside of, so they don't stick out as much, then you could use a cheap flexible diffusion channel's cover to diffuse the LED's, and run another notch up the inside in the middle and use the middle support rod for the transparent sheet to run cables from, assuming that's not incorporated in the other two suspension cables, the only downside is you'd be able to see the hot-spots of the LEDs through the diffusion layer, unless you get a strip with a high enough density of LEDs

Looks great!

Really cool design.. i like it

acrylic panels make good diffusers and come with various attenuative values. also, they make flexible led channel, and most accept a cover for a nice neat look.

nice piece, simple channel fix, and finished the vid off with my favourite humm song

Dude, you laying down at the end absolutely sent me 😂 Well done though. Wires suck, sorry about that bit -but the design is so strong.

This is so inspiring, I love the design! Great video

You could totally recess those lights inside the shade, on the inside of the strip wrapped around the shade. Cut a groove all the way around, sink the lights in, maybe put a bit of an interior shelf under them to hide them even more, done!

The best part of waking up is Folders in your cup🎵🎶

Don't hate on it, It's beautiful and excellently made. By the way, not everything can be priced by the time it took you to make. In that note, how much time it took to paint the Monalisa? So, the next time somebody ask you how much time it takes you to make something, tell them that you're not making a product, you're making art.

Great vid! Actually quite a beautiful piece you made!

This is wonderful. Congratulations.

Looks fantastic Shawn! Super cool design!

Hey Shaun!! Looks like that would make a cool pool table lamp! Happy New Year!!!

A beautiful light fixture! I work with LEDs daily, so i would say first, always recess your strips, secondly, for indoor use, you don't need the silicone or rubber covered strips, those are designed for outdoor use, for splash protection etc. Indoors, you can go with plain strips, they are thinner and also, to plug them up, solder your leads using finer cable. You can also use LED channels in your recesses to add your diffusion cover. Overall, a great end product, just minor adjustments needed, which you can technically do (minus the recess). I would replace the bulky strips with the thinner ones and replace the plastic channels with nice aluminium ones for cleaner aesthetics, so even if you look inside, it still looks sophisticated 😊

too humble, for what its worth, I think it looks amazing. Great job

Your work always amazes me. Thank you for the inspiration.

9:37 Me Waiting for those Gloves or shirt edge to get caught in the bandsaw. 😲😲 Definitely skipped safety class

Love this piece. Couple of questions.... (1) About what radius were the bends? (2) About how thin were the laminations?

I think you did a great job on the light fixture. Now, this is just my thought. I would recommend you add a brass polished shelf just big enough lay the LED on and allow the light to hit the light panel. The reason for brass and not the black tubing is to give the light another surface to reflect off of.

You can get flexible sealed LED tubes which are 10mm deep and 5mm wide and very bright, we use them on our yachts. Make a groove round the inside and place the light there. Personally what I’d do is once the main curved “pill” is made, cut it down the middle so you have two pills. The accent piece bridges the cut, which you space out by 5mm for the LED strip, and provides the structure to hold it all together.

Dude!!! That is an awesome piece of light furniture fixture. Thanks for showing it. You just gave me the idea I was looking for.

A very art deco feel. I really like it.

The best part of waking up is Folgers in ur cup!

I was just thinking "how is he going to lay on this," when the image of Shaun superimposed on the lamp showed up. Well-played! Awesome video.

Another super cool video Shaun. Love the design and the story :).

One could recess the LED strip. Since it's supposed to be relatively bright, I'd also worry about its longevity without a metal heatsink, though most people don't think about it. I'd make sure somehow that people sitting under the light can't see the step itself. The middle panel could be made with plexiglass instead of epoxy. I've can easily find plexiglass and similar materials in various colors/frostiness.

Shaun you've outdone yourself with this light! Amazing work dude

I would have gone for a more transparent panel in the middle; as for the light a grove inside to recess the LED strip would have been fine Anyway nice looking light fixtures 👍🏻

nice idea. cool looking. great work

Great video!

Always excited to see a new video!

The design on this piece is awesome! To be such a small component of the overall process, that inside chamfer detail really adds a lot. The video itself was also really well executed, timing, flow, and overall entertainment value - it was all there. Solid work m'man!

Some quuarter round under/above the light strips would hide them a bit on the straightaways. It would give them an inset-type appearance.

This is a very quite really great looking prototype.

Beautiful light, regardless if the lights show, etc. it’s like a mid mod rectangular lamp which is ridiculously long for a name but I enjoy the curved edges and just learning how you did it all. When you showed the reveal, first off the semi transparent white epoxy panel worked very well, secondly I wonder if prior to assembly with wood glue and all of you routed a dado or groove to inset the leds if that’d be better and some way to hide it better would be pouring a very thin strip panel to sit directly onto the leds. In fact you could remove the bigger panel all together and make a screen to set over the leds themselves like you can buy semi transparent filters. The one bummer is that the light obviously can’t go through the hardwood, this build and light reminds me somewhat of what Pask Makes built a year or so ago. His was a large circle that he routed by hand every little squiggle shape to allow light to shine through and it’s gorgeous! So many possibilities and options but if I were facing your dilemma myself I’d go that route. Or embrace the light as a specific purpose light like for a desk when the light really needs to hover above a desk for ie. And about the shed, I’d love to get the metal version, my concern is the area I live in produces winds 40+ and consistently. Doesn’t sound bad at 40mph but it always gets more severe sometimes up to 70-80 mph and we get dust storms from the drought and again seems to never stop blowing. I’d be afraid of that thing lifting away but I’ll have to check out their products and see if I could I mount it to a concrete base or something. I should build my own damn traditional shed but like you mentioned… time is a factor and I’m not fast at building. I tend to stall, become indecisive, over research all possibilities but eventually finish a build and it’s well made and beautiful but obnoxiously overthought and I’m afraid I’d do the same thing with a shed. Anyone else struggle with time lines and procrastination? Most frustrating quality to have lol

I feel like a recessed more bare bones LED strip would have done the trick here pretty easily. Once you started assembly without a channel though I definitely had some questions :) Either way its a great piece and thanks for sharing!

Quick hack - Paint the inside brilliant white it will give more reflection and would better hide the strip

Love your videos Nice calm as always👍 Cool lamp

I am always looking forward to your videos. Thank you for the excellent content.

I have a similar design I've been developing in my head for the last few years (plus a handful of sketches). It's great to see it come to life and gives me more motivation to get it done.

I like this lamp. Route a recess for the light. You can make a small list below the light, so it is not so easy to see from below. Get a semitransparent edge chamfered or rounded tempered glass (about 6 mm thick) with premade holes in it. A glazier can easily make this. (or use a milky white acrylic plate) Use round sticks to attach the glass (or acrylics). And make some supporting rings, which holds the glass in place on the middle of the round stick - glue one side ring on first and let it cure. Then put on the plate and glue the other side ring on. If you use a darker material for the round sticks, you can let the sticks stick out through holes on the side and trim it down, so the ends become contrasting features seen from the outside. In that case, you should wait fixing the glass (acrylics) until you assemble the middle part, so you can stick one end of the round sticks through the holes with glue, put on the glass (acrylics) add the other side supporting ring, and then push the other end through on the opposite side with glue.

As a You Tube fan, and fan of your content. Any project that has multiple components and techniques that are not seen everyday is awesome to watch.

Looks great, amazing build.

Shaun I noticed you have some hand planes in the background. However I don’t see you use them often. How about a video walking us through your shop and the new additions

4:45 That actually worked? Genuine surprise 😮

Really love the design with this one Shaun...very clean and modern. The chamfer detail on the banding pieces is a nice touch as well. Enjoyed this build video...keep it up!

Love this. Shaun inspires me to design my own projects

You should start another channel where you read books outloud :) I love your voice and story telling!

I have no idea why you don't like it, it's an awesome build! I really like the result. very cool idea, very neet execution. well done.

A late Christmas Present from my favorite maker, thanks Shaun! ❤

It looks amazing! I know how you feel about the light strip, but it is just a prototype. A beautiful prototype! Thanks for sharing your talents.

I think it looks amazing! Probably you already knew this but why didn't you use the accent piece in the middle to embed the led light so they would be flush with the inside wall? That would be for version 2 of this lamp.

Lovely looking light it really gose well witht the table below

I love that dacia you have overthere. We own 2 at this point plus their electric one 2023!

Glad you're making videos on your own again, cheers!

I really like the inward sloping bevel on the bottom of the shade. A trick of the eye at least in the camera shot makes it look like the shell is thin and the wider edge is a rolled in like the edge of a sheet metal something or other. Great project.

"The best part of waking up.. is product placement in your cuuuup!" Is that what you were whistling?

Oh Shaun it’s lovely!

Love the light, super sleek. If you want to hide away those wires, just add a piece of rice paper as a diffuser, and you'll never see it!

With the centre trim piece you could have made the inner part in two with a gap between the top half and the bottom to recess the LED strip - the same effect could still be achieved by routing a channel around the middle inside?

Bravo Shaun. I'm sure you're like me and you've already sorted out the fix 15 different ways. The next one will be trick!!!

I think this is my favorite one of your builds. It doesn't look like a prototype. I also love how you used the first curved piece to make the accent curved pieces fit exactly.

Great build Shaun. Welcome back. I agree with what GWAIHIRKV suggested as well as maybe a floating valence around the light apparatus. Just an idea. Again, keep up the great work Shaun.

Hiding the ugly....I stress over that too. Maybe for this, instead of screwing through the side into your epoxy support posts(?), rods(?), you make a ledge for them to sit on the same thickness as your led strip, and attach straight down through the rod into the ledge? You can put a strip/ledge on the bottom to hide the ugly when looking up. I mean, it won't completely hide the ugly, but a little trim goes a long way. But the design is great, and looks beautiful!

You could route a channel in the wood and put the LED strip in covered by a difuser, that should hide it nicely

Bent laminations from resawn boards is such an incredible medium to create from. Love it.

As always, great.

Looks great, Shaun. I share a lot of the same sentiments with you.