LED MASON JAR LANTERN
The Home Handyman|May/June 2023
I made this mason jar lantern to go with my wife's farmhouse décor. I made it from a mason jar, red oak, and 9 gauge steel wire
Brian Andrews
LED MASON JAR LANTERN

In between helping kids with homework, I sketched up the design idea for this project. Laying out the circles was easy to do in AutoCad. From there, I opened the file in Carbide Create and set all the tool paths. The upper and lower circles are equal in diameter. Since the jar is tapered, the inner circle for the lower cap is smaller then the upper circle. You can sketch your ideas by hand - I am just accustomed to designing on the computer.

Step-by-step guide 

Step 1: Cut the wood I used a stair riser for my material. The nice thing about this is it comes in 25mm thickness and is less expensive then gluing up stock oak. The oak riser is 290mm wide. I cut a 225mm piece off and screwed it to my waste board. I ran the file, leaving enough room to make another on the upper half of the oak.

Step 2: Round over the edges I turned my router upside down and used it as a small router table. I added an 1/8" round over to all the corners I could access. The ones I could not get the bit to were sanded down in the next step. Make sure to always work within your experience.

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