Looking for Crestworth Rocket/Princess dimensions.

[Silas Jordan]

Crestworth Rocket/Princess owners, I'm looking for your help! I'm in the states and have wanted an Imperial for a long time, but they are nearly impossible to find and likely far out of my budget if i ever found one. While looking at building something similar I came across the Rocket and fell in love with the design.

Being in the states makes finding one quite literally impossible, I only know of one that's been shipped here, so I'll have to make one. I'm planning to build a lamp in spirit of the Rocket (or princess, not sure which is really correct). I'm not attempting to build an exact replica, but something pretty close. So I need some measurements to make sure I get the ratios and proportions correct. I'm looking for is:

The length of the legs

Thickness of the legs

Width of the legs, top and bottom (as they get wider going up)

The height from the floor to the black ring where the legs mount

The diameter of the black ring

The footprint, distance from foot to foot

Diameter and height of the globe

Thank you for any info!

[andy ross]

Hi Silas, from experience, you'll find building one is pretty much as expensive as buying the real thing - and they do come up from time to time, at around £2.5k+ depending on condition, fill etc

The cylinder is the problem, as the whole lamp was made to Imperial measurements... so the cylinder is exactly eight inches diameter, which is 205mm, and borosilicate cylinders are bulk made at 200mm nowadays. Everything develops from this, so you will find Marcel's brilliant replicas are based on the 200mm glass, so the base is correspondingly smaller, and the black ring, the cap (?), and just about everything else (I believe, I don't own one)

You may find one still available at Goolamp, I know he ships his kit to you in the States

The most expensive part in manufacturing terms is the base, you need to find a top notch metalworker/spinner - but you need to know what size aperture to specify first

Good luck! PM me via OG if you want any further details, I'm still having problems with Discord

[Silas Jordan]

Hey Andy, thank you for all the info and advice, I may reach out as I progress with this project. I suspected his lamps would be slightly off because of that, but very close.

I suppose I should give a bit more info about my plan. My plan is currently to buy one of Marcels current lamps, the GL200, as my starting point. It looks like the GL200 is the Princess replica, just with a flared metal base instead of legs. The globe and top seem unchanged. If I'm correct about this, I should be able to remove the flared base and fabricate the legs.

If I am correct about this, then it will likely be my cheapest option, as the GL200 would only be about $1,500 shipped according to his site. And I only know of one of his princess kits currently available, but they are asking almost $3,000 shipped, empty. I'm not worried about fill, I already have the wax and everything, but buying the GL200 new from him leaves me $1,500 to make some wooden legs, so that's likely much cheaper.

But I suppose all this speculation could be answered by getting ahold of Marcel. I messaged him on Facebook, directed there from his site, but haven't heard back. It's probably worth giving him a call I suppose, or maybe finding an email. He doesn't have any princess kits listed currently, and I haven't seen any over the last ~6 month that I've been tossing this idea around, but maybe he has one kicking around he'd sell.

andy ross said:

Hi Silas, from experience, you'll find building one is pretty much as expensive as buying the real thing - and they do come up from time to time, at around £2.5k+ depending on condition, fill etc

The cylinder is the problem, as the whole lamp was made to Imperial measurements... so the cylinder is exactly eight inches diameter, which is 205mm, and borosilicate cylinders are bulk made at 200mm nowadays. Everything develops from this, so you will find Marcel's brilliant replicas are based on the 200mm glass, so the base is correspondingly smaller, and the black ring, the cap (?), and just about everything else (I believe, I don't own one)

You may find one still available at Goolamp, I know he ships his kit to you in the States

The most expensive part in manufacturing terms is the base, you need to find a top notch metalworker/spinner - but you need to know what size aperture to specify first

Good luck! PM me via OG if you want any further details, I'm still having problems with Discord