Thursday, June 26, 2014

Making lamps


I've been enjoying making lamps lately. Here are a couple more. This first one is a marble base floor lamp. I turned everything from brass. The base is carved wood painted gold to simulate a casting like the one I found in mom's attic :)  The "marble" is turned from Italian Evergreen soapstone.


 I turned the lampshade from acrylic. I turned and threaded the little knurled screw to hold the shade in. The lamp is adjustable for height with another knurled, turned and threaded screw.


This is the lamp lit:


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Here's a little table lamp. Turned from brass, the shade and base turned acrylic.


And here it is lit:


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Lemon tree update



He's outside now, he seems to like it. Some beautiful marigolds are keeping him company.