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Trumpet Lamp

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The PTA at my daughter's middle school is having an auction next week, and her band teacher came across an old student trumpet that she thought would make a nice lamp. Here is the result.

The mouthpiece of the trumpet had gotten stuck, and the tube had gotten ripped when trying to take it out. It was more to fix it than the trumpet was worth. So, I got asked to do the lamp conversion.

Here's what I did:

  1. Cut off the mountpiece.
  2. Drilled out the mouthpiece part in the trumpet body. This ended up ripping the tube the rest of the way off, but ultimately I got out the remainder of the mountpiece.
  3. Epoxied a threaded tube into the main tube to fix the rip.
  4. Epoxied a threaded tube into the main tube to attach the lamp socket.
  5. Cut off the valves
  6. Threaded string from the mouthpiece out the bell (using a shop vacuum to pull the string)
  7. Built an octagonal base out of vertical grain fir, with a routed edge and routed a path in the bottom of the base for the cord.
  8. Attached a bit of closet pole to the base to support the trumpet.
  9. Cut holes in the support and base for the cord
  10. Pulled the cord through the base and the trumpet
  11. Wired and attached the socket
  12. Epoxied the trumpet to the base.
  13. Finished the base in Watco danish oil
  14. Glued some fabric to the bottom of the base
  15. Cut a bit off the mouthpiece
  16. Tapped the mouthpiece
  17. Installed the shade, and used the mouthpiece to hold it on.

A pretty cool result

Comments

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    Reminds me of the child days when I used to build birdhouses out of a couple of boards and nails. Of course, the results where not as impressive. :)