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Jonzjob
30th March 2014, 08:45 AM
Well, I finally saw the light http://www.the-anglo-french-forum.co.uk/Smileys/default/huh.gif An angle poise one. I have had the idea of making one for ages, but the heat caused by any incandescing bulb would destroy a wooden shade quick time. So when the LEDs appeared and a little mains golf ball LED was affordable I thought what the hell.

The base is designed to take 2 external HDDs, 3 1/2" jobbies with the cables going out the back and is marine ply, or at least what the French call marine? the base swivel and arms are oak, the shade is spalted beach. It took an age to make because I had to work out just how it would go together, but I like it, as does SWMBO.

The top arm was done by sticking two lengths of oak together with double sided tape and turning them to round. Splitting them and hey presto, two bits-a-wood http://www.the-anglo-french-forum.co.uk/Smileys/default/cool.gif http://www.the-anglo-french-forum.co.uk/Smileys/default/cool.gif

It gives a lovely light and just from a 3.8 watt bulb that does not get hot..

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Anglepoise1_zpsceb9e81b.jpg (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Anglepoise1_zpsceb9e81b.jpg.html)

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Anglepoise3_zps84b90376.jpg (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Anglepoise3_zps84b90376.jpg.html)

I want to make one about 4 foot high, floor standing, but it may be a while, so don't hold yer breath?

Dalboy
30th March 2014, 09:26 AM
Now that is what i call a bright idea.

Well done John a great project and also a useful item as well:2tsup:

A Duke
30th March 2014, 10:17 AM
:2tsup:
Looks good.
Regards

tea lady
30th March 2014, 10:21 AM
Very like. :D Have been pondering something like this too. My round tuit is buried under that pile of washing over there though. :( :D

chambezio
30th March 2014, 10:46 AM
Great job!!!
Its another one for list of "Why didn't I think about it and make one"

Christos
30th March 2014, 11:06 AM
I think this one would have been a lot of work. But I think you would have enjoyed the process of making one. Very well done.

Jonzjob
30th March 2014, 07:53 PM
Ta folks it did take a while to do. Mainly because of wondering what would work?

I'm going for the high light now. About 4 foot high! With a 12" diameter African iron wood base, so I hope that it is stable enough?

I'll post some more when it's done?

I_wanna_Shed
30th March 2014, 08:39 PM
That looks fantastic! An excellent design.

Looking forward to seeing pics of the 4ft one. Although 6 or 7 foot would look spectacular too!

Nathan.

Jonzjob
31st March 2014, 02:45 AM
Nathan, the second word is off and you can make up your own first one mate :D:D:D A 4' jobbie is enough and I have just retrieved the splinter from me thumb that came off the bloody awful iron wood! It is so brittle and I was feeling the surface while it was turning and found the only splinter in it:o:o It should have all been smooth, it should have:C

I can remember now why I said I wouldn't turn any more of it. :doh: Still, now I have started it I will finish it :oo::oo:

Ad de Crom
1st April 2014, 04:34 AM
You saw the light, you could say John. Literally and figuratively.
Nicely made, I have to say
Good light on the laptop.
You've got a quiet place, probably in the attic?
Is everything okay over there in France.
greetings Ad

Jonzjob
1st April 2014, 04:43 AM
Hi Ad and thank you. Not quite in the attic, in fact it's under the open stairs leading from our lounge to the mezannine and in front of a nice big open fire!! It does give a very good light and a lot better than the halogen light before it. At 3.8 watt it is fantastic.

France is good and warming up now. We get some really cold times in the winter with very sub zero tempratures. Last Feb we had 2 weeks of sub zero with a low of -11ºC :C:C, but it's not normally that cold!

I hope that all is well with you?

Jonzjob
8th April 2014, 09:06 AM
Well, got it finished today and I am quite pleased with it! The base is African iron wood and a more obnoxious wood I have never turned! The bottom upright is 2 bannister uprights that were given to me a while back. I made sure the hole down the middle was down the middle by quartering them, routing a chamfer off the inner corner and glueing the buggers back together again. They started off as square. They are a full length and a short bit for the top 1/3 and taper to the join. I do like my skew for this stuff! The angle sections were another donation of an old oak TV cabinet. Cut and turned to suite. The shade is a bit of very spalted beech that I wondered if it would take flight??? It didn't!

The light fitting is a GU10 glued in place with a 3.8 LED spot and it works really well. Cost? Less than a tenner, ££ or €€, so not too bad?
. One of the things that fascinate me about LED lamps is that the energy goes into the light and they produce very little heat. That makes it possible to do projects like this.

I band sawed and drum sanded a saddle for the shade to fit on out of some of the TV cabinet. If you want any more gen it will have to wait till tomorrow. We are knacked prepairing for my sis and brother-in-law coming over, from some odd place called Aussie or something, on Friday!

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Johns/Anglepoisestandard2_zpsd06cc801.jpg (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Johns/Anglepoisestandard2_zpsd06cc801.jpg.html)

The spalting, the lines on the wood, are really lovely and you just don't know what you are going to finish up with.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Johns/Anglepoisestandard1_zps72eaa1bf.jpg (http://s47.photobucket.com/user/Jonzjob/media/Johns/Anglepoisestandard1_zps72eaa1bf.jpg.html)

After 20 years of working with woods like this I am still in wonder at what a rotton old bit of wood is hiding!

DaveTTC
8th April 2014, 10:26 AM
I like it, I have been pondering doing a replacement for my bankers lamp. Shade broken through the due diligence of my children.

In my case I am thinking a hollow form then cut a side off. I need a hole each end.


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