Reloading Themed Lamp

[Lostinidaho]

Just wasting time between projects.

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Japanese 75mm Mountain Howitzer Shell and a Soda bottle from the 80's

[skeettx]

Strikes like Lightning :)

[dangitgriff]

Is that a tracer? Nice!

[Three44s]

Cool!

There is not another one just like that on God’s green Earth!

Three44s

[jlm223]

Very cool!

[bedbugbilly]

Nice! When you fire that one up, it will light up the sky!

[Dapaki]

Thanks for the inspiration! I have some brass from an A10 I want to use in a lamp now.

[OS OK]

How about an old powder tin?

https://i.imgur.com/TauRbFz.jpg?1

[Lostinidaho]

I like the powder tin one

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[Ural Driver]

Very nice.

[Bull-Moose]

Very interesting ideas.

[dverna]

You guys are amazing

[NyFirefighter357]

Very nice. I don't have anything reloading related to turn into a lamp. I've made several lamps/nightlights from RR lanterns to gumball machines.

[lightman]

Cool pictures guys! Thanks for posting. I have an ash tray on my loading table made from a large brass shell case. My retirement gift from the guys that I worked with was a table lamp using an old electric meter. Its wire through the meter so that the meter turns. It was very thoughtful of them.

[Lostinidaho]

My great uncle who fought in WWI (army) and WWII (Navy), had a table lamp he made. Which the base was a artillery shell and the shade was a dough boy helmet.

I have a vase he made from an artillery shell he made for his sister, my grandmother. The embossing in it is really something.

He was a machinist and a metal worker. Later in life he was a gunsmith.

He died when I was about 12. So I didn't get the chance to learn anything from him.

[samari46]

I have an assortment of artillery shell casings I picked up from various places. However three have a special meaning. Two 75mm shells were from an uncle who served in the British army during WWI. One was configured into a matchbox holder and the second was made to resemble a enlisted mans cap. The third was a 5"54 shell casing cut down and made into an ash tray and the shell casing actually was a fired one from one of our 5"54 gun mounts. I've polished that one so many times over the last 50 years that all the data on the base is becoming hard to read. Frank

[jeepyj]

That is really nice craftsmanship!