Small Plastic Light Base

A plastic LED base 3.35 inches square and 0.79 tall, weighing 0.28 pounds. It is the lightest and least expensive base we make, and it does the same job as the small wooden one: it lights a photo crystal from underneath so the engraving separates from the glass instead of sitting dull in it.

What You Give Up and What You Do Not

The light is the same. An LED under a crystal does not know what the housing around it is made of, so the engraving is lit exactly as it would be on the wooden version. What changes is everything else: 0.28 pounds against 0.45, a slightly smaller footprint, and a material that looks like a device rather than like furniture. On a shelf inside a cabinet nobody is examining the base. On a bedside table or a desk, where it is seen from every angle and knocked occasionally, the difference is obvious.

Where the Weight Matters

A base this light can be moved by the crystal rather than the other way round. Lifting a piece off and setting it back down will shift a quarter pound housing across a polished surface, and over a few weeks the whole arrangement drifts. If the crystal is a pendant or a keychain that weight is irrelevant. If it is a small block of an inch or more, the wooden base holds its position better.

Warm White or Colour

The light runs as a steady warm white or as a slow colour cycle, the same two settings as the wooden bases. Warm white is what a photograph wants, because an engraving is white light inside clear glass and a coloured source tints every face along with the background. The colour cycle belongs on abstract designs, constellations and anything in a child’s room, where there is no skin tone to distort.

Sizing It to the Piece

At 3.35 inches square this matches the smallest crystals: mini blocks, pendants, keychains and anything up to roughly three inches across. A piece wider than the base overhangs, and the overhanging edges stay dark because light only enters the glass where it touches the lit surface. The medium and large plastic bases cover the sizes above this, and the wooden range runs to an XX-large for the statement pieces. Ships in 3-5 days in the US.