For a little while now, my 3-light tree floor lamp has been quite “unsteady” on its base. The bottom light also hasn’t worked in years, but I got by with using just the top two and 100-watt daylight LED bulbs in each.
The unsteadiness got so bad that I decided to check and see if I could fix the problem. Um, no. The base was the problem. The concrete-like substance was cracking and crumbling. So I decided to get a new one. Boy, was a near-replacement hard to find! I wanted one that I could change the bulbs, and most that I found were integrated LEDs that you don’t change.
I finally happened upon this one, and while they didn’t have white, the brushed nickel looks fine, and works very similarly to the old one. It doesn’t rock back and forth, and all three bulbs work now, so yay!
Light is so crucial to my fabric cutting (as it is with pretty much everything else), so while I’m not happy to have spent more money, I am happy to have a lamp that will hopefully last as long as the previous one did.
Oh, and for the record, I tried an Ott-Lite lamp there, and its light output was very dim in comparison to even one of the lights on this lamp. If you need light, I highly recommend using a 100-watt daylight LED bulb. Or two or three.
I’m currently working on the sawtooth stars of Sawtooth Scrappy, and once I have those completed, I’ll go back to the 16-patch blocks. This one has been pretty fun, although I broke my ΒΌ” foot with guide and had to replace that one too. This was all (foot breaking, lamp breaking, computer breaking) happening at the end of 2025, so I’m hopeful that 2026 puts an end to that nonsense.