Just finished cutting the pipe and organised it all ready to be baked. Sorry for the lack of light in the pic. I only have one lamp in my room as I still haven't changed the bulb for the main light in room since it blew in November. Feels somewhat ironic that I'm making a ton of lamps.

aaaand just preparing the pipes and pairing them up with the right joints to bake in batches. Im not sure if I have to, like with a lot of things i'm doing in this project, but I'm also de-greasing the pipe ends to make sure that the solder can get the strongest possible bond with the pipe. Sounds like a thing that people do right?