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Part 5 of the shade construction (pulled over from the other site) Here is a finished shade, walnut with Watco oil and a topcoat of pre-cat lacque...

Part 4 of the shade construction (pulled over from the other site) Time to bevel the sides and put the darn thing together! On a previous episod...

Part 3 of the shade construction (pulled over from the other site) If everything went well prior to this point (snug lap joints, equal part length...

Part 2 of the shade construction (pulled over from the other site) I decided to use walnut for this set of shades. I recently scored some narrow, ...

I pulled this from "over there" and made some minor updates. Figured it fits in with the current blog series title. Part 1 of the shade constructi...

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...

Its been a few weeks! The top block has been veneered and otherwise finished. Upper copper tube ready for the patina. In the fuming blocks, clean...

Well, last time I left with the copper soaking up ammonia fumes. It worked, but not quite the effect I was after:  [IMG_9271.jpeg] The black is w...

WIth the blocks assembled, time to move on to the end caps. There will be one for the top side of the lower block and top/bottom for the middle blo...

orStarting here since these form the basis of it all. I want this column to be all finished before making the lamp base. There are target dimension...

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...

So it has been a while! For a while now I've been using a free, on-line software called ImageR for getting settings near perfect for etching onto ...