Another Floor Lamp

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 ...

Picking up where I left off in the last installment, I was not happy with the protruding top part of the triangular core.  It was just sticking out...