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 ...

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...

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 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 have been prevented from final sanding and finishing of the stave assembly because I still needed to drill the locator holes in the ledges for th...

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...

I selected a bleached linen for the shade, which is an off-white.   I doesn't color the light very much, so it's a fairly white light in the end.  ...

This is the final installment of the project.  Thanks to all who have followed along. To lighten the look of the base, I added a chamfer along the...

I've got a lot to learn about turning.   The last time I had any instruction was in wood shop class back in jr high school.   I'm retired now, so y...

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...