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Eleio the fleet
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Joined: Mar 11, 2006
Posts: 170
From: The mountain jungles of Denver CO
|  Posted: 2006-07-10 09:03 am Permalink
Aloha everyone!
Though the existing photos for this thread are no longer available, I just wanted to thank everyone for having participated in this discussion and sharing your work.
Going by the photos and everyone else's input, I got up the guts to create my own.
I'm in Denver, so my access to Tapa (especially within my price range) was very limited for this project. Therefore, the closest "tribal" cloth pattern I could find at the time, was African. Having learned a great deal from this project, I plan to make another using tapa and the woven cording.
Anyway, here's a picture of my work.
So you are aware, this light is portable, meaning that it's not set up with an electric light fixture. I chose to do this because I'm not confident in my wiring skills and keeping the lighting battery powered means that I can set up the lamp almost anywhere. The light derives from a dissected set of those color changing tiki head party lights. The battery pack lasts about three hours, but there is also an electric plug in, if needed.
If memory serves, the lamp is 5 feet long. 20 inches in the center and 16 on the ends.
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Unga Bunga
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Joined: Jun 06, 2003
Posts: 5738
From: CaliTikifornia
| Posted: 2006-07-10 11:00 am Permalink
Nice job Eleio.
Glad to see that the efforts from others is still rubbing off here.
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Benzart
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Joined: Jan 09, 2004
Posts: 10309
From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2006-07-11 05:46 am Permalink
Wired or not, you have created an Excellent light and Portable is Great!
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Eleio the fleet
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Joined: Mar 11, 2006
Posts: 170
From: The mountain jungles of Denver CO
| Posted: 2006-07-11 07:43 am Permalink
Thank you both for the kind words.
Mahalo
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Mai Tai
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Joined: Mar 21, 2004
Posts: 1430
From: Exotic Isle of Alameda
| Posted: 2007-12-03 04:25 am Permalink
Bumpity! Boy, it sure would be great if people could fix their broken links of pics from their Shutterfly accounts! I'm sure there are so many great pics on this thread, and they're all gone! Being that I have made a lamp too, at Monkeyman's lamp class, I'd love to see everyone else's work. Any takers on reposting their pics? It would be a simple matter of uploading those photos from Shutterfly to Tiki Central's server, and then they will never disappear! Anyone?
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