Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

lostinrates

Fourth pic down in this link

http://dianepernet.typepad.com/diane/2008/12/the-high-life.html

Wonder where i would get lighting like that?

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

It's a beautiful light.

It is. Are you getting it. If a no gets it please my i come and live underneath it. I will bring a duvet and you can just pretend i am a sort of dog.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

Fourth pic down in this link

http://dianepernet.typepad.com/diane/2008/12/the-high-life.html

Wonder where i would get lighting like that?

Somewhere very expensive.

lostinrates

Ok, i am doing what darling generali suggested and calling round glass makers. Gdb, you seem quite interested ......do you want one too if i can get it to a reasonable price?

Official NP frippary ideas hunter gets to work....

Pn, how do you find some one you casts bronze? We were trying that with window fittings and it was a ruddy night mare.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

... I rang up for a price. Umm, two dozen thousands, which seems rather a lot to spend on a light - not that I'm judgemental you understand, but PN will definitely not approve.

Some people are a lost cause

It's cheaper than I thought, I thought maybe £2,700-£3,500.

I'll never enter the LIR world of prices..... so I don't tend to do too many posh alerts any more (it'd be a full-time job). I have to google most of the food that's craved.... just to find out what it is

For £2,000 I'd expect a whole new kitchen, including lights, flooring, window dressings, some new bits and bobs .... and still have change for an indian takeaway.

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

Ok, i am doing what darling generali suggested and calling round glass makers. Gdb, you seem quite interested ......do you want one too if i can get it to a reasonable price?

Official NP frippary ideas hunter gets to work....

Pn, how do you find some one you casts bronze? We were trying that with window fittings and it was a ruddy night mare.

I'd like to apologise in front of all of the nice people for having an idea rather than sympathising. Mrs Generali hates that I do that.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Pn, how do you find some one you casts bronze? We were trying that with window fittings and it was a ruddy night mare.

It is something sculptors know about. Jewellers and sculptors use this method extensively.

If I want to make/sell rings to the mass market then I'd make one very carefully, then I'd make a wax cast of it - and send it to somebody for casting and say "make me 1000 of those will you".

So who to go to in your local area would be to talk to (down to earth) evening class silversmiths, old-fashioned jewellery repair shop backroom workers, or local sculptors. Look for the regular/hippy type of established workers ... not the arty farty daahling crowd.

PasturesNew

I'm sure it'd be quite easy to have those lights made locally .... all you really need is an electrician, some electrical wire, the LEDs and a fistful of cast bronze heads. Should be able to get your own version made for a fraction of the price... if you have the patience to wait until the right sort of people come into your life (and not the arm/leg price brigade).

kabayiri

PasturesNew wrote: »

I take a drive each morning to watch the sun come up over the pier ... well, it's been up an hour or more by the time I get there ..... this morning I saw a couple walking two dogs, each of them had an almost transparent orange bag holding poo ... and I thought "EWWWWW". There's no way I'd EVER look after somebody's dog because I don't poop scoop.... EVER.

If it glowed it'd just look worse.

I was at my Sisters in Canada a few weeks back. Sitting in the back 'yard' I noticed this lady wandering around parts of the garden.

'Oh she comes in every week to scoop the poop' explained Sis.

The phrase "where there's muck there's brass" is still true then

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

Omg! Ok, so i am not getting this one. But i do love it. . So gens idea, or an alternative is now got to be the hunt.


Bggeration, i loved that one.

could you light your house by releasing a few hundred fireflies every evening around dusk? do make sure the windows and doors are shut though.