![]() We haven’t tried it, but it might allow you to skip the step of soldering the strip lights to the lamp, and just screw it right in. UPDATE: Mark just left a comment pointing us to this LED light which screws right into the bulb socket. If you look closely at the actual strip, there’s a line about every two inches where you can safely cut it. At this point, it doesn’t matter which wire goes to which metal piece.Ĭut the light strip to a desired length. ![]() You’re going to solder the red wire of the light strip to one metal piece and the black wire to another. Okay, now look at the part of the lamp where the lightbulb screws in. The end of the light strip has a red and a black wire and looks like this: We used them to light our bookshelves ( see that tutorial here):Īnd just for fun, here’s what they look like with the whole strip lit by this one 9-volt battery: It’s a flexible strand of lights that you can cut to any length, which uses almost no energy and is cheap. This is what they look like when they come in the mail: We are using these magical, fantastic LED reel lights, which we LOVE. Connect the lights to the top of the lamp Every lamp will be different, but there should be some way to unscrew it and remove the top.ģ. We just unscrewed this round thing (nut?). Update: see the post on how to do this step for shaded lamps here. The bottom of the lamp had a piece of felt which we just peeled right off:
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