The store is located at:

2717 Buford Road
Richmond, VA 23235
804.592.5740

Mary McNeil is the proprietor. She also consigns furniture in case you need another reason to stop by and see what else she has for sale.

Above are a few photographs I took at the opening reception on June 6th, 2009.

I know I’ve been promising a more detailed write up of my shooting table, but that’ll just have to wait. Currently I’m neck deep in designing a PVC Ring Light. Here’s the design so far…

I’ll be using 1-1/4″ Pipe & Fittings with one length of 1″ pipe to act as a bushing in the mounting sleeve. The reason for using 1-1/4″ material is that the light sockets I found at Home Depot (rubber, weatherproof, 2-wire in the electrical section) fit perfectly into the socket of a 1-1/4″ tee. I’m going to wire it so that it takes two switches… each switch will control 4 bulbs. The mounting bits on the side will allow the whole rig to be flipped over and mounted for right or left-handed use.

The OD of the rig will be about 35″ with 25″ worth of space to shoot through.

The tentative parts list is as follows:

3 ea Cross, 1-1/4″ Sch 40 PVC
3 ea 90 Ell, 1-1/4″ Sch 40 PVC
8 ea Tee, 1-1/4″ Sch 40 PVC
8 ea 45 Ell, 1-1/4″ Sch 40 PVC
8 ea Light Socket (I’ll post the part number once I buy them)
1 ea Two-Switch Light Switch
1 ea 1-1/4″ Sch 40 PVC Pipe (a 5ft piece would probably be more than enough)
1 ea 1″ Sch 40 PVC Pipe (30″ or so)
1 ea Switch box
1 ea Extension cord
Some Romex wire
Crimpable Wire nuts

Right now I’m still spec-ing out the bulbs… I’ll be using daylight balanced CFL’s, but I’m having a hard time finding some with everything I want… 40 to 60 watts in the 5500K to 6500K range with a CRI over 90. If you know of anything that fits the bill leave a note.

I still need to talk to my brother the electrician about the wiring. I’ll post gauge recommendations and a wiring diagram once I have them figured out.

So far that’s what I’ve got… I need to get access to a band saw before proceeding due to all the cuts that have to be made. As soon as I have somethign to show I’ll post pictures.