Kozo lamps in Makers Market / Boing Boing Bazaar

System Product Images 7935 Original Kozo Enviroment Square

These nifty Kozo lamps are available in a variety of prices and models in the Makers Market / Boing Boing Bazaar.

They are handmade and manufactured on demand (after you place an order). Please allow 2 weeks for manufacturing and handeling before the item is shiped. shipment may take 3 to 5 days to arrive (depending on the destination)

Kozo lamps shop on Makers Market

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Anonymous

Reminds me of the bookshelf I made–all from that steel hardware store pipe. The hanging glass TV tube is a lamp. http://tinypic.com/r/2a68b29/6
SamSam

I saw this on BoingBoing last year, and actually got the parts to try and make one myself, since they’re really cool looking. I wasn’t able to do it, though, because it was tricky to find a bulb and socket that would fit ion correctly without shorting out on the pipe, and trying to hook up that switch again without shorting out was next to impossible.

That said, though, I’m sure once I worked out how to fit it all together it would have been easy enough. Maybe I’ll give it another shot, or keep trolling intructibles.

Either way, there’s no way it should be $200…
- Anonymous
  
  Try using LEDs.
spcfgt

$200?

For something that clearly costs less than $20 to make, that’s atrocious.

No thanks!
plainsaman

Do-it-yourself aspects aside, it’s just butt-ugly.
skylight

In the US, I believe that these fixtures need to conform to UL 153, the standard for Portable Electric Luminaires. They also need to be Labeled by Underwriters Laboratory or another Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory. Failure to do so could open up a bunch of folks to liability claims should one of these units fail [ short out, cause a fire, electrocute someone! or fall over, even]. I don’t want to be a spoil-sport–nice idea–but Safety First, though. Just sayin’.
Anonymous

Wow, I am going to make one of these thanks for the idea :P
PaulR

(Yeesh, half a dozen posts and no one has..)

Ahem, in order of increasing difficulty:

If you receive it and it’s baroque, will they pay for the return shipping?

So, I wonder, can you pick someone other than GFH?

Are they really made in southern Yuan, or is that just some sort of tax?

Or maybe, it just so the people making the lamp can enjoy a little duck for lunch.

I’ll stop now.
Quibbler

If that’s a proper bulb the whole thing is going to get very hot. I hope heat resistant wiring is included and/or a good ground to the metal parts.

There’s probably a good reason why light fixtures are not normally made out of plumbing parts and vice versa.
theawesomerobot

These look pretty easy (and kind of fun) to make. I’m not trying to discredit the work, but anyone with the time should stop by a hardware store and give it a shot. The only somewhat tricky part here for a complete novice would be the clever little switch.
Grey Devil

200 bucks per lamp? Really?
Anonymous

Doesn’t it cost a boatload of money to get a lighting product UL certified? Like upwards of $20k if I remember correctly. How can an ostensibly small shop sell something like this?
- Anonymous
  
  Actually a small shop can be ul listed easily, for about $1500 per year. It is a registry service, and really nothing more.