Steps to making a lamp

Mr Andrews asked all of us to put steps for making our lamps.

What I have done:
- Design and draw our lamp.
- Make a full scale drawing of our lamp to use as a template (especially with the curves of the aluminium)
- Cut our wood to the size on our template (some people had to glue) and sand.
- Bend our aluminium strip to the same degree as the template.
- Draw dots where we are going to drill our holes, with a larger drill-bit make a hole with the drill (have aluminium in vise)
- Screw hole in wood with a smaller drill-bit make a hole in the wood.
- Use handheld screwdriver and line up the four holes, put the screws in.
- Make a hole with the drill for the cord to go through in wood and aluminium.
- Cut the right length of LED strip to fit your light.
- Thread the cord through the hole, have a 2cm length of heat shrink wrap threaded on.
- Solder the LED light to the cord and plug.
- Heat the shrink wrap onto the soldered part (covering the first 2 lights).
- Remove the adhesive part of the LED and stick onto the aluminium.
- Put a plastic cap onto the top of the aluminium.
- Put a strip of white plastic (cut at 28mm wide) into my aluminium to hide the screws, holes and the wire.
(- An extra step that I had to do was to glue the second part of my base to me aluminium.)

Steps I still need to do:
- Remove all pencil marks off my wood and aluminium.
- Put an oil onto my wood to make it look nice.
- Drill 2 holes for my pencils in my wood base.

Hopefully I will be able to finish off all my last steps next lesson.