Thanks, guys! I’ve been pondering various LED / Lithium battery technology for over half a year at this point, and it feels awfully good to have one done. And a second in progress, and maybe done before Christmas yet.
Splint, beyond this and the next one, I’ve already had a couple people asking about buying these, and they haven’t made funny noises when I said that I’d have to sell them for a “cuppa-tree hunnert” which maybe is enough for me to actually want to keep making them, so figuring out the details may pay off. I’m not entirely happy with the battery mounting on this one, and soldering the wires directly to the battery may not be the best answer, but if those are the only problems remaining to be solved, I think I’m in good shape.
We’ll see how the next one using a cholla and epoxy base goes…
Today I started working on a piece of cherry that will be the base below this bit, and I’m figuring out how to bore the hole in the bottom to hold the battery. Gotta make those more repeatable processes if I’m going to make more than a couple of these.
