Lithophane Nightlight Bracket - Super Basic

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I am gifting lithophanes to my mother (and mother-in-law) and wasn't pleased with how they looked when lit using the nightlight brackets I found elsewhere. The main issue was the distance from the nightlight - most brackets hold lithophanes pretty far away to avoid heat from regular nightlight bulbs. Since the nightlights I'm gifting have LED bulbs, which put off very little heat at all, I left only a short distance (about one knuckle's worth) between the bulb and the lithophane. I print my lithophanes from regular photos, no cropping, with their longest dimension resized to 105mm (which puts the other side between 77 and 80mm for most shots). I print with a max thickness of 3mm, and when using Cura to quickly convert JPGs, I turn smoothing way down; just the slightest bit more than absolute zero. This frame's gap is exactly 3mm to accommodate my 3mm-thick lithophanes. If you print them thinner, fill the remaining gap with a piece of filament, paperclip, toothpick, etc. Don't resize this bracket - making it larger or smaller will prevent it from fitting standard nightlights. I'm including photos here of the most basic, CVS-purchased nightlight I could find. This bracket fits snugly without any stress once it's on.