Our comprehensive copper lamp workshop provides you with all the professional tools, quality materials, and creative inspiration you need to craft an actual working lamp that will light up your living space with a funky, awesome Edison bulb. Your handcrafted lamp will become a unique conversation piece that showcases your maker skills. If you want your visitors to immediately recognize that you crafted this lamp with your own two hands, our instructors will teach you the techniques and attention to detail that make maker creations unmistakable.
This workshop marks your entry point into a creative maker identity. You are about to become the cool friend who makes their own lamps and decorative pieces!
Many in the Craftsman Ave community consider the copper lamp workshop to be the essential gateway experience into maker life and creativity. Be warned: You are very likely to catch the maker fever, and the only cure is to take MORE WORKSHOPS!
Crafting a copper lamp provides a truly delicious and satisfying taste of the dopamine rush that comes from creating something tangible with fire.
Yes! Not only will you play with shiny copper pipes and manipulate them into a custom design of your creative choice, giving those childhood experiences with building sets a practical application, but you will also directly control the power of fire as you solder together the copper joints of your creation.
This is a beginner-level workshop, meaning that no previous knowledge of copper pipe fitting and soldering techniques is required, but the sky is truly the limit for your creative design aspirations!
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Skill Level: Beginner - no previous experience is required or expected
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Tools and Techniques: You'll use simple hand tools to cut copper pipe to your specifications. We'll then teach you the detailed art of soldering, using a propane torch to carefully connect the pieces of your lamp together
If you are looking for other versions of this class, please see here:
Click here if you prefer the Buddy Up version
- You and a friend will design and make ONE lamp together. At least one person must be 18 years of age or older
Click here if you prefer the Date Night version
- You and your guest will design and make ONE lamp together and get a pizza and a bottle of wine to share during the workshop. At least one person must be 18 years of age or older
