Thread: Atmospheric lighting

AD thats certainly different .......your not a Dr Who fan are you

timber looks like Jacaranda here

Ad, you've got this lamp making down pat....looks great !!!

Excellent Ad. May the force be with you.

Very nice.

i like it opens up some more thought about what can be done with such an idea thanks for showing it looks great

Thanks guys for the nice comments.
Ray, I'm certainly not a fan of Dr, Who. I like more Ellis, you know that song of Smokey about Ellis. I guess I'm growing old
Cheers. Ad

Well... I've been hanging back on commenting.

It does look damned nice when lit up!

But during the day... frankly, I think it looks ugly. To me it looks like a colander that someone hasn't bothered putting back in the cupboard after use.

I'm sorta wondering how it'd look if you'd left 1 or 2" timber bands around the top & bottom, and then wrapped a fine cloth around it... between the bands but covering the obvious holes?

(I prefer light shining through paper-thin woods, but some woods don't let light through until the tool tip itself makes a surprise appearance. [sigh] )




BTW, no criticism intended. I'm just hoping someone else will come up with "the improvement."

Well, with a cloth shade, or a paper-thin wood shade, it would be an entirely different lamp.

The regularity of the holes seems to fight against the grain, though. Possible "improvements" could be more random placement of the holes, or following the grain (randomly), or different size holes; thus setting up another "fight." On this particular piece, maybe it just needs more holes, in a still regular pattern, perhaps offset.

Very nice lamp, Ad.

Cheers,
Joe

Maybe a nice dome shape with lots (500?) of smaller holes in a random pattern?

Maybe a spiral pattern for the holes instead of them in parallel with the axis of the lamp stem? Smaller holes in between larger ones?

Thank you all very much for your comments about the hole pattern, highly appreciated.
Oh yes, there are many possibility's, like I read in the comments.
All of you are right, I made in the past a lot of lamps, each time different, with another hole pattern, or if the woodspieces allows me translucent.
Alder is not the right woodspieces for turning it very thin, that's why I choose for this solution, one like it, but others have other thoughts, and I think it's very good to get the so needed feedback.
Show you some of my other lamps I made in the past, with an other hole pattern or translucent.
Thanks again for the feedback.
Cheers. Ad

Well done Ad

To tell the truth I showed it to my wife who said "WoW" but then said she was not taken with the shape. Me, I like it. This just goes to show that beauty is really in the eye of the beholder.

Some of the suggestions that were made were I think valid but in the end if you are happy with the result, well thats all that really matters.

I am impressed with your ideas and skill. Of all the ones you showed, my particular favorite is the ceiling lamp.

I dont mind the hole pattern or the shape - without being turned on i think it is too plain or large - i think a insert or something in the shade (different coloured peice) would change the "plain/overbearing" look, similar to the second one in your other photos. something like a band or even 3 or 4 vertical peices would break the "large " look. Just a thought

Cheers

Ignore all the armchair experts Ad

They are very nice lamps