floor lamp

Ok, long project I'm glad is over. Hopefully get this over to the gallery and see if the guy who wanted one is still interested. If not, It'll jus...

Arthur Jacobs designed many interesting and unusual lamps for Modeline in the 50's and 60's.  This particular floor lamp design has always caught m...

With the base glue-up completed, I placed the staves on it see how they looked together.  That thing is looking way too thick.  Maybe it will look ...

The original lamps had upper and lower sockets and a 4-way switch so that either bulb or both bulbs could be illuminated.  I'll be using LED strips...

My homework prior to making the staves was to work out how to join them at 120 degrees to each other and allow for lamp pipe to pass through the ce...

The staves required a dowel hole on the bottom to align with the corresponding holes in the base.   These will not be glued joints.  Instead, I'll ...

The thickness of the staves of the original lamp gently narrow from bottom to top.   Ordinarily, I would do that tapering prior to shaping the edge...

Some time back I made a floor lamp project and at the time I also made two shades since it is easier to knock a few out versus just singles with al...

I found a few cone calculators online that will give you the details of the flat pattern to use that will roll into the desired cone shape.  I used...

I started with some cherry, surfaced down to just under 1 inch thick, edged glued two pieces for the necessary width, which would then be cut in ha...