Originally Posted by
jrhboxers
I have been wanting a light box for a long time. They just always seemed too expensive for the amount of time that I would really use. DH even thought about building me one. Now I have one. And I only paid $10 for it!!!!!
While I was out Christmas shopping and looking for the Crayola Studios, I found this -
http://www.amazon.com/Crayola-Light-.../dp/B0033PE0VO
but I found it at Big Lots and only paid $10. I brought it home and tried it out and it is wonderful. I finished tracing all of the patterns for the embroidered quilt blocks that I have been wanting to make forever.
Don't think anyone can beat $10! Great!
I took a FMQ class and the instructor made her own light boxes which she brought to the class for us students. She made them herself. The supplies will run much more than $10, but lots less than a table bought from an artist supply store:
2-3 feet of one-inch diameter wooden dowel from Michaels ($3.25) --cut 4 5 tor 6-inch lengths as straight as possible. Take a large drill bit and slightly hollow center of one end of the dowel to accommodate attaching the plastic suction cups evenly (to prevent wobbly legs).
4 plastic suction cups--secure with screw to dowel legs, suction cups facing up to attach to sheet of plexiglass (available at Michaels or Taps plastic, about $ 0,25 each).
1 18 to 24-inch sheet 1/4 inch thick plexiglass from Taps plastics (maybe $20??)
After attaching suction cups to dowels, secure these "legs " to the 4 corners of the plexiglass sheet and slide a light source underneath the "table." Our teacher used an Ott work light (the flip top kind) but any florescent light source that fits underneath would do.