Getting the Blog started... Welcome to LFTA!

Although LFTA is about 9 years old and we have built and sold nearly 3800 lamps, we've never taken the time to put into our website the answers to so many FAQs that we get.

So, here we go:

• Yes, we walk miles of antique stores looking for anything that has "lamp potential" written all over it.
• No, we don't buy through auctions, because I don't have time to wait for an item to come up only to get outbid by a guy who doesn't have a price limit.
• Yes, we hand-pick ALL of the antiques that we re-purpose into a lamp.
• No, our attic has been empty now for years...
• Yes, almost 100% of the antiques that we choose for our lamps are Made in the USA.
• No, we do NOT use reproductions or knock-off "antiques".
• Yes, the light bulbs are all brand new and very easy to replace. (More on this topic later.)
• No, not everything can be turned into a lamp.  I draw the line at taxidermy.
• Yes, we often use a customer's sentimentally valued antique and work with that. (We may have 10 camera lamps, but, we don't have your grandfather's camera.  I get it.)
• No, competition is not an issue for us.  I often say that you can put 10 lamp guys side by side and our styles are so different from each other that we don't really complete for the business.  The customer will like mine and not the others or the other way around.
• Yes, I highly encourage people to take on a project of their own and use my lamps as an example.  I even talk a home DIYer through the process in general terms to help him along.

Oh, yes, the questions can go on and on.  Yet, I love to hear all of the stories that people bring to the conversation when we are standing in our booth 500 miles from home.  I often encourage school teachers to use my website for examples when the topic is repurposing and recycling.  It's just one way of giving back to society.

​More to come...