DIY pipe menorah

Avi Solomon writes,

With the Jewish Diwali aka Hanukkah well nigh upon us, I was looking to provide my 7 year old son Uriel with a maker angle on the central artifact of the holiday, the Menorah. The Maccabees had hastily hacked together their Menorah by using hollow iron spearheads and I also wanted to capture this improvisational aspect of making the Menorah.

Inspired by Joe Grand's Pipe Menorah we set off to the nearest hardware store to make one of our own.The guys at the store were kind enough to let us putter around gathering the parts we needed and try them out together.

Read Avi's HOWTO: "Making your own Menorah is no longer a Pipe Dream!" (avisolo.blogspot.com)

• [kansas]

  Lovely. I’m so out of it: what kinds of stores carry those finger LEDs?

  • [AviSolomon]

     Try a Dollar store.

• [nemryn]

  I applaud the spirit, but going out to the store to buy parts for your improvisational, hacked-together project kinda feels like it’s missing the point.

  • [AviSolomon]

    We had a deadline to meet since Hannukah starts 8th December and had to sacrifice the pure DIY spirit:)
    But don’t worry, we are going to tackle smelting raw iron ore later:
    http://www.thetoasterproject.org/page2.htm

    • [nemryn]

       Fair enough!