Light box
#11
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Laughlin NV
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Somewhat similar to GrammaSue, I put my piece of glass over the opening in my sewing machine table and an ott light on the bed the sewing machine sits on. Cost was zero - had light and table already. Glass is about 20 inches square and I can slide it around over the opening to reach all of the design.
#12
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: S.E. Queensland, Australia
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My dining table had a glass top on a wrought iron frame. I attach a portable lamp to the frame-work underneath, and I have the biggest area for tracing designs. Helps if the light bulb isn't the type that gets hot
#13
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Join Date: Feb 2016
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Thank you for all the suggestions. Making my own sounds like a great way to save money (which I really need to do) but since I've never even used one of these and I have no idea at all how they even work (lamps? glass? lasagna dishes, table leafs?) I'm probably going to be better off buying one and hoping it comes with good directions.
Are any of them made specifically for fabric or are any many in such a way that they shouldn't be used for fabric?
Thx
Are any of them made specifically for fabric or are any many in such a way that they shouldn't be used for fabric?
Thx
#15
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Tampa Bay Area, Florida
Posts: 2,229
I have never had a use for a light box but I did hear of an ingenious homemade one. IF you have a table that splits (for table leaves), open it, put a piece of plexiglass over the opening, and a table lamp on the floor underneath. When you're done, the only thing you need to find a place for is the flat piece of plexiglass.
#19
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Piedmont Virginia in the Foothills of the Blue Ridge Mtns.
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My light box, for years was something taped to the patio door.
Then I progressed really uptown by using a leftover piece of window glass propped on 2 stacks of books with my Ott light shoved under it.
Lost the glass in the last move so I now use a piece of plexiglass on the same books with a 6" round tap-on-stick-up light underneath.
Jan in VA
Then I progressed really uptown by using a leftover piece of window glass propped on 2 stacks of books with my Ott light shoved under it.
Lost the glass in the last move so I now use a piece of plexiglass on the same books with a 6" round tap-on-stick-up light underneath.
Jan in VA
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