Hey i'm van neistad with the sledgehammer man and today we're going to show you how to make a destroyer lamp. Okay, so the star of the destroyer lamp is your sledgehammer. This is a ten pounder. I have an eight pounder on my desk.

Make sure you get the wooden shaft and this detail is very important. It should have a little ring in here. The wood should protrude to through the iron, because we're going to need to drill into here and the reason we're going to need to do. That is because, though, the base is very stable, well relatively stable.

This way, once we put our lamp on here, it'll pull itself over without a base, so we're going to make the we're going to make the base right now. So we want our base slightly bigger than the head of our sledgehammer. So just take the combo square measure, the sledge hammer and then go. I don't know half an inch bigger just draw your little square here i like to do a light sanding just to prevent splinters just a little basic geometry to get the center point right.

Just do a little corner to corner we're gon na drill a hole through there. This is very hard wood, so we're gon na be just a little bit narrower than the edge outer edge of the threads. It's a three and a half inch screw so you're gon na go all the way to the base of the of the bit and just try to nail it right in the middle, let's countersink the bottom, so this is ac plywood. This is the a side, the nice side, and this is the c side, the not as nice side.

So, let's countersink it's a little bit protruding, but i think it'll pull it flat once we get anchor it into the shaft of our sledgehammer all right. So this is a little weird. You got to kind of hold it like this, so you can get good leverage and do not. This is dangerous.

Do not not physically dangerous but dangerous to the project. Don't snap, this long screw so kind of oh no dead battery! Oh yeah yeah, it's really snug, it's nice and snug so, and this is kind of up to you. If do you want it on a diagonal so that when it's on dad's desk, you know it's up to you. I have mine on my desk.

It's i have it so that it's basically perpendicular to the i have it on my desk, like that diagonal looks great too it'll hold the lamp and it won't fall over all right. So that's the that's. The sledgehammer part of the project and now we'll do the lamp part of the project 14 at home depot. It's called a heat lamp, don't get the one.

That's like a clip light, it's just not as high quality and the clamp isn't as strong, and it won't really work. So it comes with these little guards that go in to protect you from accidentally touching the heat lamp and the way you use these. Is you open, the garbage can and you throw them in and then they'll work forever like that? Basically, the reason you buy the heat lamp is because it has the stronger it has the strong clamp here and there's no such thing as a good clip light. So this will take some mods to get it to get it to be an acceptable clip light.

I like these ones the best because they're held on with this nut, like a ceramic nut, they're ceramic, so they're, really high heat. This is agonizing and annoying this. This connection and i'm showing you how to build the standard version of the destroyer, lamp and then i'll, show you how to build the deluxe version so for the standard version you just you use the like the stock, the stock clamp and, like you got to get It in there just right and it's it's a pain in the neck, and if you loosen this too much the whole thing falls apart and it it kind of barely holds the lamp in place. But this is the standard version.

This is the fast one for you to build for your dad and there you go. There's your lamp without lamps, there would be no light. Okay, this is the deluxe version, so you'll notice it doesn't really stay so. Okay, here's the key.

The four wr vice grips. They're, the little teeny, tiny ones - you don't want heavy ones because they'll pull the lamp over, but these little teeny tiny ones. They go right on the clip and they hold the thing nice and then you can adjust the lamp. However, you want it and it's fantastic that took years for me to develop okay, another thing in order to hold this clamp in place so that it doesn't fall apart when it's loose, you use plumber's epoxy, not jb weld.

It comes in a little stick like this. There's a brand called propoxy: this is called plumbing hand, mold moldable, specifically for plumbing repairs. This stuff dries in like five minutes. This is also crucial for any off-road motorcycle adventure.

You need to have this because if you punch a hole in your oil pan, you can plug it with this in five minutes and keep riding, and if not, you are so screwed. But i cut this off in little discs. You mold it until it's a one, solid color and then you just kind of play-doh it around. It holds the clamp together and then, after five minutes it's there and it you know you don't have to worry about it again.

Okay, so that's the clamp part now we'll deal with the wire. Oh i've made a mistake: okay, good. That means i can do. That means.

I can do this more sexy. Okay, i like to do chords so that they have natural they sort of go naturally how they want to go. This particular cord has been bound up uh. So it's all it's like wrinkled, but so okay, so we'll do a little bit of we'll do a little like this.

It could be more beautiful than this, but that's what we'll do don't buy the one dollar a bag? Zip ties buy the four dollar a bag. Zip ties you can take a heat gun and go in there and heat up the wires and get it to be a perfect swoop. But i think two of these, like one right here and then one right here right and now clip clip okay, the base. I paint i love this poster paint.

This acrylic poster paint it's for, like arts and crafts for preschool, and i painted the the wood with this poster paint. I love it because it's matte and then then i cut after it was dried and it allows you to write in pencil in black and you can still sort of read it. I love i. I love that and then i also i love one of the things i love in life are the our feet.

These are the these are like white felt feet, and you know these here's brown ones. If you want to be able to slide the lamp you put. The felt feet on, if you wan na, if you want the lamp to stick, you put either the like acrylic feet on or the cork feet, which are even more beautiful. This could be considered pretentious, but this is one of those like really high quality labels.

I hope please don't tear, please don't tear, please don't tear. Yes, it is okay. You could do this like this put it on here, even though that's like it could go either way, but just like i don't know it makes it look amazing. It's like made in mexico, which is badass.

It's got the old glory on it, which is also badass. I like this company collins at axe. It's either eight pound or ten pound, which is the one we did for the standard version and uh. That's it put it in a box 80 bucks to ship to your dad, so the prices it was like this is five bucks or seven bucks.

This is five bucks. This is probably five bucks. The plywood is 15 bucks. The lamp is 15 bucks.

This thing is 10 bucks, maybe 8.99 for the vice grips. You know by the four dollar bag of zip ties, so i don't know we could do all the math for that, and maybe the math is now in a title on the screen and then the shipping. So this isn't a thing you make because it's cheaper than buying your dad something it's more expensive than buying the storage department. It's more expensive than buying the store-bought thing that you're gon na buy your dad and it's harder to do and you got ta ship it.

Unless your dad lives in the same town but uh, all those things are felt when it's on your dad's desk, he'll, he'll, love it and your mom will hate it or your mom will love it and your dad will hate it and to me that's kind of The perfect symbiosis and that's called the destroyer lamp. The destroyer lamp is the perfect gift for any kind of fathers: stepfathers grandfathers, fathers, fathers, even the church kind. Oh oh yeah, all right man, yeah yeah. I was afraid that was going to happen because of the goddamn thing you sure, you're, okay, try, your arm and stuff yeah, i'm fine! All right, you're, wearing leather up the lamp, though, to get on film yeah.

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