Open house | CrusaderRabbit

60’s blender converted to a bedside lamp. The copper work was the hard part, Wabbit being no sheet metal worker.

24 thoughts on “Open house”

The copper work isn’t as wonky as it looks – something about the way the light catches it.

Cadwallader on January 25, 2015 at 09:26 said:

Is it still able to mix a cocktail? Might be just the thing before you get out of bed in the mornings?
- KG on January 25, 2015 at 11:10 said:
  
  Yeah, Gecko would love the sound of grinding ice cubes at 3am, Cad.
  - Cadwallader on January 25, 2015 at 17:29 said:
    
    She may think you’re up for some love-making. This could be a winner all-round?
    - KG on January 25, 2015 at 18:14 said:
      
      Indeed!

Cool!

People are paying crazy money for stuff like that.

KG on January 25, 2015 at 11:12 said:

I don’t think I’d have the nerve to ask money for it, Oswald.
- Darin on January 25, 2015 at 13:10 said:
  
  Cool!That would fetch probably $500 on Ebay,no seriously……..do you see $1995.00 here?
  
  http://www.ebay.com/itm/Steampunk-Lamp-Light-Industrial-Art-Machine-Age-Salvage-Steam-Gauge-/291009561626?pt=Antiques_Decorative_Arts&hash=item43c185841a
  
  With 308 people watching it,somebody will bite.
  - KG on January 25, 2015 at 16:07 said:
    
    Well, it’s a damn cool lamp, Darin. That gauge would probably be worth half that here, if you could find one.

Looks great! Well done!

KG on January 25, 2015 at 11:12 said:

Thanks, Tranquil.

Tres chic.

I just pulled 2 hours of old mickey mouse cartoons off of youtube for my 3 year old.

Mickey mistakes a parrot for a home intruder. Solution? He yanks his double barrel shotgun off of the wall and shoots at anything that moves.

The best part? My boy is absolutely spellbound. I guess he’s not going back to that sterile, computer animated bullshit any time soon.

KG on January 25, 2015 at 12:19 said:

Great stuff!!
- Darin on January 25, 2015 at 13:25 said:
  
  Awesome! Don’t forget Popeye!
  I’m Popeye the Sailor man,I’m Popeye the Sailor man,
  I’m strong to the finish cause I eats me Spinach,
  I’m Popeye the Sailor man!
  
  http://youtu.be/3JNt3EpCJZU
Cadwallader on January 25, 2015 at 14:20 said:

In the 1940s Disney did at least one cartoon of Donald Duck ridiculing Hitler. My sons loved it only a few years ago.
- Wombat on January 25, 2015 at 15:56 said:
  
  I’m always amazed by the range of emotion the characters portray in these old cartoons.
  
  The new crap is stuck on the “xanax” setting all day every day.
  - KG on January 25, 2015 at 16:08 said:
    
    Sure is. I can’t be bothered with it.

Peshmerga forces putting hurt on some bad guys.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=723_1421956190

If you’re time poor then watch from 3:15. Two ISIS fighters are attempting to retreat to an MRAP after their own vehicle was destroyed.

Then, if you like big explosions jump to 6:50. Interesting tactic. It appears that they’ve planted a small IED a hundred meters or so in front of a big one. The fast moving vehicle hits the smaller one and then (i suppose) loses the ability to detect and negotiate the larger one that it skates toward.

Or maybe I’m just reading too much in to it.

KG on January 25, 2015 at 12:20 said:

No, I don’t think you are, Wombat, if that’s what it is. Good technique, and not new.

The lamp is awesome! I love repurposed things like that. you may not realize it or agree with it, but you’ve created a memory, an heirloom which will serve as a memory of you forever.

KG on January 25, 2015 at 16:09 said:

Thanks, Kirls. It’ll probably end up being given away to somebody though.

Dunno KG. It wouldn’t make the Conde Nast Fab. Rich Interiors Mag. but then again, despite it being neither retro, metro, nor deco, it is certainly coolo.

Thank you ma’am.

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