00:00So I've been going down a bit of a rabbit hole lately, building my own Edison-style lamps from
00:04scratch and honestly, the hardest part isn't the wood or the wiring. It's finding decent LED
00:10filaments that actually look like the real thing and don't die on you after a week.
00:14I've tested a bunch, dug through the reviews, compared the prices, and I've narrowed it down
00:19to the 5 best filament sets you can get right now. And fair warning, some of these cost less
00:24than a cup of coffee. Kicking things off, we've got this 10-piece box of DC 3-5V LED filaments,
00:31and the thing that sold me here is the multicolor option. If you're doing holiday lighting or you
00:36want that warm amber glow that looks like an actual vintage bulb, these nail it. They come packaged in
00:42a proper little box so nothing arrives bent or snapped, which happens more often than you'd
00:46think with this stuff. At $2.19 for 10 of them, with nearly 5,000 sold and a 4.9
00:53rating, this is
00:53about as safe a bet as you're going to find. Great starting point if you've never soldered
00:58filaments before. Now if you want to get creative, these are the ones.
01:0410 Flexible COB Filaments, and flexible is the keyword, you can bend these into spirals,
01:09loops, parts, whatever shape you've got in your head. They come in 5 different lengths,
01:14from 38mm all the way up to 130, so you can match them to whatever bulb or jar or enclosure
01:20you're working with. $3.29 for the pack, and here's the kicker, a perfect 5.0 rating across
01:26nearly 5,000 orders. That basically never happens. If you're building something that needs to look
01:33handmade and intentional, these are worth the extra dollar. Next up is the budget workhorse of the
01:39group. These COB Filaments come in 5 sizes 18.8, 29, 38, 54, and 68mm, and they support 3V,
01:4812V, 12V, and 57V setups, which is genuinely useful if you're wiring several in series and
01:54don't want to buy a separate driver. $1.09 for 10 filaments.
02:01I honestly don't know how that maths works. Rating sits at 4.8 with over 4,500 sold,
02:07so it's not a fluke. If you're prototyping and you know you're going to burn through a few while
02:12you experiment, buy these. Coming in at number 4, this is the premium pick of the bunch,
02:18a 10-pack of 3V COB Multicolor Filaments at $4.15. Yes, it's the most expensive on the list,
02:25but the color rendering on these is noticeably richer, and the light spreads more evenly along
02:30the strip instead of showing those little bright dots you sometimes get on cheaper ones.
02:34If you're making something you actually want to display, or you're building a gift,
02:38this is where I'd spend the extra couple of dollars. 4.8 rating, over 4,000 sold,
02:44and it shows in the finish quality. And rounding out the list, the cheapest one here, 97 cents for
02:5010 3V COB Filaments. Under a dollar. That's less than 10 cents per filament. Now, the rating is 4.7,
03:00which is the lowest on this list, so I'll be straight with you, you might get one dud in a
03:04pack.
03:05But at this price, who cares? These are perfect for stocking up, for testing designs,
03:11or for a holiday project where you need 30 or 40 filaments and don't want to spend a fortune.
03:16Over 4,000 people bought them, so they're clearly doing something right.
03:21Alright, that's the 5. I've put links to every single one down in the description,
03:26so go grab whichever fits your project. If this helped you out, hit that like button,
03:31and subscribe if you want more DIY lighting stuff, I've got a full lamp build coming next week.
03:36Cheers!
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