Closed: 3rd Annual BLF Scratch Made Light Contest

Awesome prizes. Looking forward to the builds! :slight_smile:

I need to think of something to build. Is a really hot fire allowed in the handmade category?

How many can we build? I want to do 3 hand built lights!!!

I am acquiring the parts needed to build the replica Steam pipe light. I have some parts on order and should receive them in a week or two.

Can’t wait to see the contestants’ arts!

Can we have multiple entries in 1 category?

if i enter a new light build of my own (separate of the replica prize light i’m offering) it will likely be in the hand-made category again.

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No. Only one entry per contestant. You have to choose only the best one. :)

Really hot fire, like melting & pouring metal? Yes.

Really hot fire, like gas (oxy-fuel) welding? Yes.

Really hot fire, like exploding two parts together? Yes. (and would give you some extra points! )

Really hot fire, like plasma cutter? No. (OTOH, a hand held plasma cutting might be acceptable?)

Wait, doesn’t the light have to be portable? An apparatus for melting and pouring metal wouldn’t be portable, would it? Doesn’t the light have to also be AC-mains free?

Maybe I misunderstood what was requested.. I meant that melting & pouring is allowed for building the light.

The light itself must be battery operated and hand held.

I was thinking molten metal as part of the build process. And not just safe low temp stuff like solder.

The first annual contest had an entry that was forged so I’d say yes. That would be worth seeing.

I’ll need to make more charcoal, and make some casting flasks, and make or buy some greensand, and I really should build a permanent furnace to replace the stack of bricks I used last time, and I still need to come up with an idea for what I should make.

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I'm still trying to decide if I will have enough time to participate this year, but I would like to get a call on the following tools. I don't have a cutoff or band saw. So I'm hoping one or all of the following are allowed:

- Table saw (seems closest to a cutoff saw)

- Scroll saw

- Reciprocating Saw (Sawzall)

Same with me with the time thing.
I have to make the time & funds to build the replica of last years light for the prize, and try to find time to build one i have in mind.
Im not sure my entry idea will qualify though, as the “Flashlight” will be powered by a LiIon cell as normal, - but it will be charged from another light i’m planning to be as a part of it that the Flashlight will “attach to” for many uses and abilities, and that charging power for the flashlight will be done by several methods from the apparatus that the flashlight attaches to (and is a part of sort of ) including Solar, Sunlight, Kerosene, Heat, and Gasoline, and include other Light sources of the build including an abstract lantern built from bits of old lantern parts from the junk bins in my garage, basement, and shed, some dating back to the 1940’s, and using parts cobbled together from everything imaginable.

*waits for _ the _ responses on this idea. :stuck_out_tongue:

I guess it depends on how they are used. I’m thinking that using the fence on the table saw to regulate and control slot separation of fins might be stepping over the line but just as a safer cutoff tool with the t-guide might be okay.

This one I would really like to see. Go for it! :)