How To Make A Slide Film Lamp Shade

Yesterday I saw some instructions on how make a curtain or lampshade out of vintage Kodachrome slides. Yous know: The gazillions of old family holiday and what-not slides we encounter at estate sales everywhere? At least I do — in every single firm! I posted the link on Retro Renovation'southward Facebook Fan page, and depression and behold, one of our faithful readers — Shane — piped up that he had built the mother of all Kodachrome lampshades: Featured above. What a beauty. Shane says the projection took 300 slides, 1200 holes punched and probably 1300 jewelry connector-rings. "I'g not sure how many hours I've got into the whole thing," he explains. "Punching holes and connecting all the slides together was slow at best." Ya think???? I am Then Impressed by anyone who has the patience and fortitude to complete a project similar this… and, who tin observe means to repurpose vintage artifacts in a fashion that can be enjoyed each and every 24-hour interval. Read on for more info from Shane.

Shane writes:

I made a ~3′ floor lamp shade out of a few hundred slides. It looks pretty cool, just you HAVE to go on information technology out of the sunday (so defunction doesn't work) or the slides start to fade quickly. 300 slides, 1200 holes punched and probably 1300 rings

I didn't go by any instructions. I saw a table lamp on a TV show quite a few years ago and wanted to make one. I was having a hard time finding a foursquare table lamp shade (most have at least a little bit of a taper). Nosotros had bought this lamp from Chiliad-Mart a couple years agone and when the paper shade tore, I peeled all the newspaper off and went to town. The slides I got off of eBay. The rings I got from a jewelry supply company my wife deals with all the time (I would take to find out the name of it and the type of rings I bought). I too got the hole dial from eBay but I'm sure any scrapbooking supply store should take it. It'south a 1/8″ hole. I'm not certain how many hours I've got into the whole matter. Punching holes and connecting all the slides together was tedious at all-time.

Buying the slides was kind of fun in itself since they were only big lots and y'all don't know what you lot're going to get. I've got a minor set up (probably 10 slides or so) of a cemetery. Most are family slides, others are scenery. Information technology makes you wonder what happened in the scenes y'all're looking at. I also wondered why someone would go rid of them. There'due south some Christmas slides and I wouldn't desire to get rid of family memories similar that.

Thank you, Shane. This is just spectacular. Well done! Online trail that got me started on this topic: Run across Daisy Fairbank'south post about about Craftster's instructions to brand these Kodachrome slide projects.