My DIY feather tree floor lamp

My very own version of the famous feather lamp using IKEA Kryssmast lamp.

I created the tree trunk look using air-dry clay and then added gold leaf.

I have since made another table version of the lamp and the whole (updated) process can be found here:
For the tree trunk -    • DIY tree trunk table lamp body (part of th...  
For the feather lampshade -    • DIY feather lampshade (for my feather tree...  

The bulb is encased within customised acrylic parts which include several stackable pieces of acrylic discs that serve as a base for the dome lampshade in which I screwed long rod coupling nuts as holders for the feathers.

One of the main reasons I came up with this method of building the lampshade was to keep it safe - the bulb is housed inside the acrylic dome and separated from the feathers. No feathers come into contact with the bulb so there’s no fire-hazard, unlike other versions of the lamp out in the market. Another reason for using acrylic is since it is see-through, I can get away with using just one central bulb to light the whole tree, even for the floor lamp version where I used much bigger feathers.

To map out the drill holes to better precision, I found this site to be very useful:
https://monolithicdome.com/spherical-...

NOTE: About the feathers
I got my feathers from an e-commerce site that listed them as “artificial ostrich feathers”. This was my first time seeing such feathers up close so I couldn’t tell they were actually real feathers until a friend came to take a look and confirmed they’re real.
By that time, the video had actually been done&posted. So while it said “faux feathers”, they’re actually not.