Lamp Phone Atrocities!

[SUnset2]

How about a lamp made to look like a phone converted into a lamp?

No phones were harmed in the making of this lamp.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/155131063994

[RDPipes]

Not bad but, the shade is hideous, LOL!

[Etienne]

PTT 1924 with vomiting bulb.

https://www.ebay.fr/itm/154853937596

[TelePlay]

Not bad but, the shade is hideous, LOL!

I agree. I did a lot of lamp shade searching when restoring the lamp phones I acquired (each of which had a hideous lamp shade).

I found the most esthetically pleasing shade form is one where the bottom diameter is about the same as the handset length, the top diameter is about half the bottom diameter, the height of the lamp shade is about equal to the height of the phone itself, the lamp pipe holding the bulb and shade should put the bottom of the shade about an inch or two above the handset (no more than that) and the color of the shade should be dark grey with about 10-15% light transparency to best show off the phone and light the room and still illuminate the shade when doing so.

All that turns a hideous lamp phone into one with art deco class (BTW, I've never drilled out or turned a phone into a lamp, make lamp phones, I just buy the those ugly beasts and make them look a whole lot better than received - and they don't come up for sale much anymore).

[FABphones]

I quite like the one above, but I will add mine to this thread. One of two which I purchased that were already phone-lamps:
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=25418

The other I returned to how it would have looked when issued, this one I tidied up, replaced the old plastic electrical cords with some more in keeping with it's design, salvaged the few parts which were good to save other phones, removed the incorrect parts, and used parts on this that would unlikely see a working phone again - but it hasn't grown on us.

Despite having no working interior and having been brassed out (not by me) the temptation is strong to remove it's silly hat and at the very least turn it into a display piece.

[TelePlay]

Yes, I posted a profile for putting a shade on a D1.

Your stick shade is perfect, follows my proportions. The bottom diameter is about the same as the base diameter, the height is about the height of the stick and it starts right at the top of the stick. The cylinder shade matches the stick's profile. Balanced it out nicely.

I think a tapered shade would look "funny" on top of that stick.

[MMikeJBenN27]

How about a lamp made to look like a phone converted into a lamp?...

Way better than destroying a real phone.

Mike

[Etienne]

How about a lamp made to look like a phone converted into a lamp?

Well, some actually did it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/292483747900

[RDPipes]

That's worse looking then one really made out of a phone.
There's an old saying about buying two hats that relates to this lamp but, I won't go into details.

[MMikeJBenN27]

Messed up!  I am looking for another one of those!

Mike

[TransparentTrimline]

Are these supposed to make me irrationally angry, but also make me want one just because its just horrid?

[Contempra]

Welcome to the forum, Shane. for my part I would put this kind of atrocity back in the state it was before being transformed into a lamp .

[Robert Gift]

I wouldo would do this if I can keep the payphone operational.



Am despoiling an AT&T desk phone. 

Have secured the lamp shafto shaft to the telephone's metal base.  (Just misses the ringer's clapper.)

Shaft continues up through the telephone case behind the cradle. 

Now trying to find a lightbulb socketo socket to attach to the top of the shaft.

The working telephone lamp will replace the desk lamp while also saving space!

[Contempra]

You know , these payphones sell for crazy prices very often! So , I would never turn a vintage phone into a lamp or a payphone knowing what it's worth .

If one day I buy this kind of atrocity , you know well that I would put it back in its original state or , at the very least , I would get rid of the pieces of lamps . instead of transforming this (s) jewel (s) into a lamp , he would sit on a beautiful little piece of furniture just for him . It hurts the eyes to see this kind of atrocity just as much as it does to see human atrocities in this world . It's just my personal opinion .

[Robert Gift]

If there are many thousands of these payphones, I would try to run a lamp shaft up againsthe against the back. (Metal screws through the lamp shaft securing ito it to the back causing damage but as little damage as possible.)

Not drilling a hole in the top of the ITT desk phone I am working on.  (WE base and handset)

I would wanthe want the pay phone working.

Could it be made to require coins even though connected touresidentialine to our residential line?

Thank you.