Live models · lamps
Three lamps, three old types.
Each takes a lamp nobody owns — the Edo andon, the chōchin, the pleated shade of about 1900 — and builds it the same way: square-section white oak for the structure, ripped from 19 mm board, and a translucent printed shade for the light. The shade does what the printer does well and does not pretend to be paper. These are designs, not yet built; every part on the model pages is computed live from the same numbers as the workshop CAD.
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Model 23Lamp · 2026
Artist’s impression · Grok Imagine, from the model Andon
After the Edo floor lantern. Four oak posts, doweled bottom rails, a floor on dowel pins, and a cap of four rails lapped at the corners. Four plain printed panels slide down grooves in the posts; lift the cap off and they slide back out.
TryPush Outer width down and watch the heat-clearance readouts warn. Explode it: cap, panels, frame, floor.
White oak · PETG panels · E12 LEDOpen the model -
Model 24Lamp · 2026
Artist’s impression · Grok Imagine, from the model Chōchin
After the paper lantern on a bamboo spiral. The shade is one printed wall, 0.8 mm, with the spiral raised in it as a rib — the rib is what keeps a wall that thin from buckling. Octagonal oak caps, cut on a table saw; the top one sits on by its own weight.
TryChange Helical pitch from bamboo-close to open. Widen Belly diameter and watch the clearances.
White oak · PETG shade · A19 LEDOpen the model -
Model 25Lamp · 2026
Artist’s impression · Grok Imagine, from the model Pleat
After the folded shades of about 1900. A square post glued from two halves round a routed cord channel, standing in a half-lapped cross foot. The shade is one printed wall of 32 sharp pleats that fade into a plain band at the top. It rests on a printed spider ring on a standard harp and lifts straight off.
TryTake Pleat count from 20 to 48. Switch the wood to walnut.
Oak or walnut · PETG shade · 9″ harpOpen the model
Wood that comes apart
Caps lift off, panels slide out, shades come off a harp. A cracked shade is a reprint, not a new lamp.
Kept off the bulb
Every lamp is open at the top and vented below. Each model shows its clearance to the bulb glass and the heatsink, and warns when a slider takes it too close.
The pictures
Grok Imagine, given a render of each model. The proportions are the model’s; the room, the light and the grain are the image model’s.