The sticking wasn't perfect, so I ended up stapling the tape down to the bottom of the box. I attached the strips of lights, alternating the colors, directly to the bottom of the box after the paint was thoroughly dry. The tape is about 16 feet long, so you get about 3 4'8" strips out of a roll, so I used two rolls of each color. Inside, I painted it white to reflect any stray light.įor lights, I used 5050 LEDs attached to tape in daylight and warm white colors. You may want to spring for a large sheet of plexiglass instead.įor the box, I used a 4x8 sheet of 3/4" birch plywood which was enough to make a box under the glass that's about 4" deep. The top is about 1/4" thick and is plenty sturdy, but also very heavy. The top is about 42" x 60" which is amazing when you're trying to lay out all your glass at once. posted by cortex to Media & Arts (8 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favoriteįor my own stained-glass projects, I went out and bought a glass table top with a white coating underneath from Ikea for about $80. a sheet of something glass-ish with a string of LED christmas lights under it, shrug emoji shrug emoji shrug emoji), that'd be very helpful as well. I'm also totally willing to build one myself, and realize that may be the cheaper option for a larger table if there's good guidance anywhere for constructing a good quality light table with consistent, even, temperature-balanced light diffusion (vs. A reliable set or reviews or comparisons, or practical expert craftperson opinions, would be really helpful here. Larger tables along the lines of what I'm after seem to range from $150-300, and I have no clear sense of which are worth the money or worth the higher end of that. I may or may not buy one of those as a backup and don't care about that angle beyond that. There's lots of cheap, small LED light tables available in the $25 range. Neutral to slightly warm light, evenly distributed, and reasonably bright. What I'd like is a reasonably large light table, at least 18 inches on a side or so, that I can use for color testing and layout when working on a stained glass project and ideally for photography on finished pieces as well.
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