Thread: I saw the light!

Now that is what i call a bright idea.

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

Looks good.
Regards

Very like. Have been pondering something like this too. My round tuit is buried under that pile of washing over there though.

Great job!!!
Its another one for list of "Why didn't I think about it and make one"

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.

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?

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.

Nathan, the second word is off and you can make up your own first one mate 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 It should have all been smooth, it should have

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

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

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 , but it's not normally that cold!

I hope that all is well with you?

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!



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



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

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.


Dave the turning cowboy

turning wood into art