making a sconce

anyone tried this? using old crestworth lamps would look cool, cant be that difficult,

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Permalink Reply by Tim Gill on July 30, 2011 at 1:18pm

I havent tryed anything like this but I guess if you cut about half to a quater of the lamp base off and then use glue to stick it to the wall - that would probabley work.

The other thing to think about is sorting out the cable and how you will power it if its going to be a fixed install.

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Permalink Reply by Autumn on July 30, 2011 at 10:25pm

After seeing those 3 sconce lamps on ebay I have been looking for a sconce that might work as a lava lamp base. As of now I have only found one that may work and it would look kind of boring. If you have an old consort you dont mind using you can use that if you can find a good wood plate to mount to the wall. Simply drill a hole in the side of the consort, then take the rod it sits on and mount it there instead. Then put a rotary switch in the bottom where the rod was and there you go, a $600 wall sconce.

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Permalink Reply by krissyfromswindon on July 31, 2011 at 5:45am

not quite a sconce put these do make a nice wall light, i have used two of the smallest lava world lamps and a wooden base

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Permalink Reply by Jonas Clark-Elliott on July 31, 2011 at 9:11am

There are some 1960s wall sconces, usually made for permanent installation, which have the cone-on-cone Enchantress shape. They're often brass, sometimes with pinholes for the starlit look, and have a double socket, for uplight and downlight. Some mounted on a single stem, others had two. If you could find the right size with two support stems (or one stem, if you screw stem to lamphouse and stem to base really tightly) you could have a lava lamp on top with a downlight.

I recommend checking building salvage stores. They're more likely than, say, antique stores or the like to have old lighting fixtures of that sort. Any salvage store that accepts atomic-age lighting is a good spot to check.

A modern example is the Rejuvenation Spektr.

http://www.rejuvenation.com/fixshowW414/templates/selection.phtml

The Vektr is identical but with two fixtures, side-by-side. Might that top part hold an Astrobaby bottle? I'm sure Rejuvenation would leave out the perforations on the top cone if someone asked.