Lighthouse Christmas Tree Topper

Can you guess which lighthouse this represents?? Ok, so you need a hint?? It’s in Newfoundland. No? It’s Cape Spear Lighthouse. I’ll wait ’till you do a search for it.

We’ve been on a lighthouse streak these past few weeks. I guess since people started putting up their trees for the season, they thought… It would be awesome to have something a little different for the top of the tree. Perhaps a lighthouse!! They do a quick internet search for lighthouse tree topper, they wade through the usual sponsored ads and plastic lighthouses, after which, there we are.

Most ask for the lighthouses we usually make…and have pictured on our For Sale page.

For that reason we try and have some on hand already painted waiting to be boxed up. There were so many requests this season, we sold out of what we had already made up.

We headed out to the workshop to batch make more lighthouses.

A customer sent this picture to us last week of the lighthouse he bought in 2021 all lit up on his tree this holiday season.

Here is ours this year…it was the second one we ever made.

Sometimes we get a request for a specific lighthouse. This one was done for a US customer to resemble the Harbour Town Lighthouse in South Carolina. Here is how it turned out…

We also got a request for a lighthouse painted navy, turquoise, and white to go with her color scheme…

This latest request was for a lighthouse to resemble Cape Spear Lighthouse in Newfoundland. We started by searching for a photo of this lighthouse for something to go by. It isn’t four sided so there was going to be a bit of extra work to build it. We couldn’t use our templates, we had to do math!!

We started with the sides. Jim cut out, sanded and started assembling the base.

I did the sanding while Jim worked on the tops.

Once the base was put together it was time to make the top. This particular top is different than we usually make as well.

Jim took a small block of wood and cut angles for the very top using the bandsaw, then used the drill press to create “windows”, finishing off on the scroll saw cutting those round windows into squares.

Everything was assembled using glue and brad nails.

We did a bit more sanding, especially around the top windows, then used wood filler to cover any nail holes or gaps. Time for paint. Two coats with sanding in between.

Here it is all finished with a light from a string of mini lights fed in through the bottom so it can shine through the windows at the top. This is going to be so pretty as a tree topper.

I did a search through our media files to find out how long we’ve been making these…built the first one in 2013.

Only thing left to do is box it up and get it in the mail. This customer I believe is from NL but living in another province now. Nothing like having a little piece of home as a Christmas tree topper.

Later.