Tokamak

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:42 Turning Jarrah end caps
02:55 Making light cage ends
07:39 Making light cage bars
11:46 Assembling light cage
13:31 Making reflector/concentrator
17:52 Fitting end caps to light cage
18:40 Drilling for 12V socket
19:20 Making tripod
24:42 Sanding and polishing
26:12 Finale

Sometime in December 21 I decided to make a sculpture and went looking for inspiration. I looked at the work of many artists and focused on Brancusi and a woodworker whose name escapes me at the moment, but he makes furniture that is often cut from a single piece of wood and then pulled apart to make the piece, amazing. The design gradually drifted towards what you can see here and yes, I did notice very quickly the resemblance to the Phillipe Stark Juicer but this didn't deter me and went into the building phase in January 22. There were many engineering problems I had to solve along the way and this made the work all that more enjoyable. As the parts came together the central 'light cage' reminded me of the Tokamak fusion reactors that I've seen pictures of many times, so that's what I called it, the 'Tokamak light source'. The only thing I had to buy for this was the light globe, everything else I already had as scraps in the workshop. So what is it? I prefer to just call it an art object and like to display it on the small wooden stand laying on it's side, but it can also serve as a dimmable table lamp. Ultimately you can see it any way you want:)

Regarding the format of the video, my general method is edit as I go. After a weekend of working and filming, generally on Sunday night, I'll roughly edit all the new footage. It became apparent that the video was starting to get very long and if I were to continue putting in as much information as I could, then the final video would end up being almost an hour long. So to keep all the information but make the video shorter I decided to compress a lot of the operations by making multiple screens. This looked good (to me) and it was easy to move my eyes around and get an idea of what was going on.
The frames were big enough to see things clearly. Of course I edit on a 32 inch monitor and check the videos on a 15 inch laptop and all looked good. I didn't think that many people would look at my type of videos on a phone or devices with very small screens, so to those people I apologize. If you can, try to watch the video on a larger screen, I think the experience will be much closer to what was intended.

See what I'm doing on my other channel 'Attila in the shed' here https://www.youtube.com/@awintheshed/...