I’ve had extremely poor vision since birth and I need a lot of light. Unfortunately, it’s hard to get enough light in my basement. I’ve been using a head lamp and it worked great, but I think I found a better solution that doesn’t require my having to put the thing on all the time. I got the idea from a Lee Valley gooseneck light, but mine has a longer gooseneck (edit: I think mine has the same length gooseneck as the LV; I provide a link to the model I bought in post #4). They had an option for a steel dog/platform to stick the lamp in a dog hole and I just made one from some mild steel screwed to a ¾” dowel which the magnetic base sticks to (quite powerfully, actually). I can put in anywhere I want on my bench and if it gets in the way, or I need a ton of light at the other end (like cutting dovetails, for example), I just slap it in a different dog hole. So far it has worked amazingly well. It runs on AA batteries, for which I use rechargeables and I always have a container of fully charged batteries on hand. The lack of a power cord is very convenient.
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