This project has taken months to accomplish, I made a part, then later another part and everything just hangs about, so yesterday I finally put it together. a bit different than the original plan.
Lit up at night was hard to capture but…
Lit up at night was hard to capture but…
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Wow! Tell us more about the various parts and how it all came together. Curious minds want to know…
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I have been trying to figure a way to engrave two sides 90 degrees to each other that would be columns on the corners… Then I was also thinking of bent thicker engraves where 2 or four of them would make the 360 but realized after making just one that precise making of multiples would also be tricky,. The problem I had with the 360 degree lamps was how much changes in humidity changed the size so by the time I made a base the cylinder was a different diameter.
I had engraved the cactus by working a regular photo but was not very happy with the result, though as lit by the LED it is much better. I also did not think the light would fit but it just does, a bit smaller and it would not.
Anyway, I got tired of looking at them in the way and put a light between front and back with a bit of paper towel cushion while gluing to make sure it would fit and then made the bottom.
Note: it would seem that opening a circle in Inkscape to 180 degrees does not make a closed object but only an arc, so I cut the arc as close as I could to the edge and had less than a millimeter to go.
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I really like the woven 3D texture! 
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Nice work! It looks wonderful when lit up. I’m like that too…make things that take forever to design and produce, but they ususally are well worth the time and effort.
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Fascinating! First I thought that the front half couldn’t possibly be one piece, but it is! The cactus looks very 3D.
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The floor is a separate piece 
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Wow! Cool pineapple sconce!
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Very interesting design. Glad you stayed on it to finish and share your results.
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Not so much stayed as wandered into it several times over the months. I have a lot of that hanging about,
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Beautifully done, as usual!
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