Post #486222 by Chip and Andy on Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:01 AM

Why do you want to frost it at all? Most of the Float Lamps look best when you can see the character and imperfections of the glass.

And, heres a dirty little secret of the restaurant biz..... all those fish float lamps you see in restaurants and bars, the ones that are frosted like, they are fakes made to look like fish floats.

So if you have a 'real' glass float, show it off in its 'real' state. Instead, get a frosted bulb, or paint the frosting stuff on a frosted bulb. See how the light value works in your bar that way. Make a tube out of parchment paper (NOT wax paper) and put the bulb inside that, see if that difuses it enough for you. Sprinkle Baby Powder over the inside of the float to give it some age.

Or, go the other way and get one of those 'old-timey' looking bulbs where you can see the loopy filament in the center and use that. Like this or this

[ Edited by: Chip and Andy 2009-10-03 08:05 ]