The Flickering LED Touch to Light Chanukkiah is my fourth generation design of an electrically lit Chanukkiah. I have designed and built all the parts of each generation of the Chanukkiah: cobalt blue glass branches, Padauk wood base, spun aluminum LED holders and microprocessor controller and its software.

Each Chanukkiah takes about 100 hours to build. Your Chanukkiah will be built to order.

The first generation was built when I was 14 years old working in my dad’s workshop. The flames were little neon bulbs that lit when the blue painted wooden Chanukkiah was plugged into a wall socket.

Many years later before I retired I designed and built the second generation; a microprocessor controlled version of the wooden Chanukkiah that sequenced the neon Flames. It made them dance!

A few years later, after I retired, I began designing the third generation, the Flickering LED Chanukkiah. It has been an interesting and long journey to arrive at the Chanukkiah you see here. Its aesthetics began during a trip to the Atlin, Alaska folk music festival in 2017. There I visited a glass blower’s shop and became fascinated with the processes of glass working and glass blowing. The Chanukkiah’s boro-silicate cobalt blue glass tubing angular branches were the result. Learning how to precisely bend the glass tubing has been a 4 year adventure. I have perfected the equipment and technique required to make gracefully angled curved branches. I then made a wooden base, of African Padauk, a deep red straight grained hardwood from regions in Africa and Asia. Each base is shaped out of a single solid piece of Padauk.

Over the past few years I designed the fourth generation, the Flickering LED Touch to Light Chanukkiah that I offer to you here. The fourth generation adds a touch control microprocessor, located inside the Padauk base. The LED Flames light when you touch their machined and polished aluminum Flame Holders, as shown in the video.

I hope you enjoy the Flickering LED Touch to Light Chanukkiah. It is Museum Quality Art.

Please contact me with your questions.

Bob