Rediscover the Lost Light: Handcrafted Clay Gas Lamp with Tall, Brilliant Flame.
Hello World,
I've made an important accidental discovery while working with the native clay of central Oklahoma.
Anyone into ceramics, survival, or our shared human history will be interested in the secret I've discovered concerning the ancient lamps of old. You know... The one with the Magic Genie?
My front yard here in Pink, Oklahoma is raw terracotta exposed at surface, and I am a "has lemons make lemonade" sort of guy.
I have always been interested in clay. I just like how it feels in my hands. And you can create anything you can imagine with it. There are few things like clay. Learn to fire it and it turns to vitrified stone and will last the ages.
I've taken College level ceramics I, II, and III at Seminole State College and University of Central Oklahoma (UCO).
My teachers told me the Native clays were useless, which I knew must be wrong as all ancient people used the native clay for all the pottery we still have laying about all over the globe, plus Oklahoma is still famous for Frankoma's pottery, which came from this same area.
So I chose this place planning to set out and learn the secrets of the native clay, using some science.
Through experimentation and patience, I gleaned the raw darkest red clay has a shrink rate of 14% which is indeed useless. Cracks while drying, and worse when fired. Most people think it is the temper that makes the clay usable. Sand. Crushed Shells. And already fired crushed bits. All have indeed been used in attempt to make the clay body Not crack while drying, but none of these work for lowering the shrink rate more than Volcanic Ash. Aka, Bentonite.
We have several Volcanic Ash layers here, and through many years of experimentation discovered about 20% Volcanic Ash amended to the raw red terracotta produced a light orange body which matched the very color I see in many ancient works globally, as well as Frankoma's works when it comes to the Terracotta specifically. I found 20% Volcanic Ash lowers the shrink rate of the red clay to 7-8% making a perfectly usable kahki brown to orange clay body which I have continued to use since 2007. It dries a buff pink.
The name given to this area.
I was trying to create Garden Gnomes.
And this one gnome slumped over. - I'd been trying to make them stand upright so as to use them as incense burners so there was a hole at the top of the head. I'm not one to Destroy my failures, and so I fired it, and it survived the kiln. Strange looking piece. With a face. And hole in the mouth, and another in the head.
One random night of tinkering, I put a small amount of Bacon Grease tallow I'd microwaved into liquid and poured into this Vessel, stuffed a cotton wick I fashioned from an old dirty mop head, and I watched it burn, like any other candle would.
But then the Wick Fell down into the Vessel. I left it burning, half curious. The clay vessel heated up, the bacon grease inside went to gasifying and a thick column of smoke poured out of the head of the vessel. I watched as Air pulled in through the mouth which worked as an intake. And in about 5 minutes of smoking, Suddenly the Smoke Ignited into a Very Tall 9 Inch Stable Gas Flame right before my eyes. The Bright Light Illuminated the entire room with its extremely bright 9+" Column of Fire, which went on Burning for 45 solid minutes, on less than quarter cup of bacon grease!
My wife came in and saw the tall bright gas flame. Was impressed. Said, "Looks like you've Got something There."
- and it takes a lot to impress my wife.
Of Course we immediately took pictures And Video, which I hope you will find and see. I even have video of the smoke being lit, and the flame races downward like a true gas flame does.
I am in the process of making more videos.
You can see the tall flame and the original lamp burning here.
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One man from northern Siberia purchased the lamp's pdf tutorial plans. He made the Lamp. And he wrote me back later the following spring, to thank me and let me know the lamp saved his life in the harshest of Siberian winter.
I'm getting older now. Aside from this one man somewhere in Siberia after 16 years of trying to tell more people, I'm the only person who knows about this very special secret concerning the magic gas lamps of old.
I wish more people knew about this technology now, so many need it, as we lean into winter in the northern Hemisphere.
It is my wish someone will tell the people of Gaza about this technology before winter.
The clay lamps are extremely simple to make.
There is a clay layer freely available and abundant over most of the world if you know where to look and I have freely given the information concerning adding 20% volcanic ash layer to have usable native clay, in hopes everyone, everywhere will try and make these lamps to bring back their needed function in our modern world.
I know these lamps can save lives. This amazing, efficient source of heat and light, using gasification in controlled manner all in one contained device.
I know I have something Extremely important in terms of human history, and what
I know is just a Lost Technology we've simply forgotten how to Use.
Forgotten how to light. Lighting it isn't so easy, haha. Takes some practice, and even skill.
I think this is why we lost this most precious simple to make gas flame.
Such a strong stable gas flame. Beautiful to look at.
My discovery was an accident. And very few people know. I'm getting older. I need more people to know.
Every human should want to know this special secret.
While we are all literal slaves to the energy corporations.
Just imagine what a flame like this could do under a sterling engine!
Or DC Appliances like a Freezer or fridge unit. Hot Water Heaters.
You can Cook on it the flame is so large.
This flame is important to all people everywhere on the planet.
And It is no wonder to me why we have a story like Alladin with a Genie in our history - the Lamp's Flame Appears So Magical to Early man, they thought the Tall Gas Flame must have been a Magic Genie. I bet they Spoke to the Flame as if it were some apparition. Which when produced, Granted the most Powerful of Wishes in a dark Cold world.
"I wish there was Light!"
"I wish I weren't so COLD."
"I wish I had a Hot Meal."
Just imagine.
When you see the Light of this Lamp's Flame I know you will know the importance.
Every Human that sees it will know and understand in seeing the tall bright gas flame.
The flame is Mesmerizing. I've never seen another flame like it.
I just don't know what more to do, to get this lost tech back into mainstream.
Not All Ancient Lamps have this gasification, tall gas flame function, but some clearly do.
Once you understand which ones do, it is easy to see by eye which lamps have room for only a small simple Wick, and these others with larger intake and outtake holes like a Gas Device Would, allowing Air Intake and Outflow to produce and even control a stable, produced on demand gas flame. Should the burning lamp be dashed to the ground it is extinguished due the liquid oil unburned. The ancient gas lamp just goes out without danger of fire breaking out, unlike a Kerosine lamp would do in a wooden house.
These gas lamp devices are amazing.
Just imagine the first controlled Gas Flame.
I know this flame is mentioned in the books of old. The Story of Aladdin. Also in the book titled, "The Initiates Flame- by Manly P Hall."
It looks to me we lost this tech around 100 AD, as there are No More Produced Since as far as I can tell. Everyone in the world continues hanging cotton wicks out of them, which drives me absolutely mad.
The Aladdin Lamps, Look to Me like they Would Produce the Gas Flame, yet Not One Person in the world tucks the Wick Inside the Device and instead leaves the small wick Hanging out like a Candle Wick, and or Filling the Lamp all the way so it Burns slowly like a candle with no air intake available.
Part of the secret is how little oil it takes to create the gas flame. Too much oil added, and no gas flame can be produced as over filling chokes out the device of any change of air flow, which the gas flame needs to keep lit.
Another secret is there are technically Two flames. A Primary flame, burning Like a candle would, just inside the device. And a second flame, the gas flame arising from the burning of the smoke produced by the heat from the first. Once the lamp is going, it stays hot enough to continue producing smoke fuel on demand in a perfect balance.
The Gas Lamp Device is FULL with just a small amount of oil leaving 97% of the lamp Empty of Oil, just enough to barely cover the bottom of the inside of the lamp, so you don't drown the primary flame on a wick inside, and so the lamp has enough internal volume the intake can pull in enough O2 to ignite the SMOKE Produced as Fuel for the tall GAS flame -
The Smoke Produced is the Fuel for the secondary tall stable Flame.
I've since tinkered with Every oil.. Low Smoke Temp Oils work Best.
Do Not Burn Petroleum Based Oils In the Device.
Veggie oil Burns Brighter than Bacon Grease.
Olive Oil Doesn't Work as Well as it has a higher smoke point.
Please find and share this light with those you know need it.
Thank You. - The Maker of The Lamps
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Experience the magic for yourself. See our demonstration video where Dave empirically proves the process: the tall gas flame extinguished, only to have the rising smoke ignited, the flame then burning back down to the lamp. Witness the proof, embrace the history, and illuminate your world with a truly unique ancient light. And then share this ancient lost heat and light with the world before we lose it again.
