May Challenge - post your entries here.

[nev]

A Table Lamp.

To be made on the lathe using wood turning tools.
no minimum or maximum size.
any shape or design.
It may be made from one piece or made of multiple parts (preferably all turned).
Decoration, colouring, texturing is allowed, (but remember it is a turning exercise.)
Electrics are optional, please do not do any electrical work if you are not comfortable or competent with such work.

This months judge will be Paul Hannaby

Please upload the required pics of your entry, along with a brief note about how you made it, what tools and finish you used, what wood (if known) and the objects dimensions. (this helps the judge and plagiarists ).

Please post 3 or 4 images of your work / entry as follows...

1 showing a general view
1 showing a side profile
1 showing an underside view
1 optional photo showing the lamp with shade/ bulb fitting.

Image size please use image size 640 x 480 0.3 mp, same previous months

Results will be given on or around 30th

Any entry's that are outside the rules and requirements will not be judged
The Judges decision is final ( Any negative comments re judging must be via PM only and not on the open forum )
NO Critique or comments on any work until After the Judging and results.

Best of luck

Roundup

 

[nev]

Oak.
No long drilling kit so 'adapted' a candlestick project in one of last years Woodturning mags. ( here's the original by Gabor Lacko )
I did do a mini wip but had a hdd failure and lost all the pics :evil: so only got some fresh pics taken today.

Turned and finished a variety of individual basic shapes including an elongated egg which was then sliced at angle to produce the base. Then some cunning balancing to get the rough overall shape and discover the junctions, then more cunning drilling with a 7mm pen bit, two holes in each piece from the 'junctions' to meet at the centre of each piece. A couple of 7mm pen tubes cut in half and glued into each piece, the cable threaded through the lot and then pulled tight to assemble the lamp. a bit of twisting and turning to get the balance then the pieces pulled apart slightly, epoxy glued and re pulled together.

Had a 'pebble' left over which is placed randomly about the base to add a bit of balance and to be picked up and handled.
voila! a wonky lamp

Edit: stands about a foot tall and will have a felt bottom

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Mod edit: NO Critique or comments on any work until After the Judging and results please



but then please do comment away

 

[dennisk]

A lamp made of Timberstrand, which we sometimes use for posts or beams in home building. I just happened to have this piece of 4 x 4 bout 30" long and so lets go. It basically strips of douglas fir and lots and lots and lots of glue,so needless to say its hard on tools. Turned between centers and turned the base out of a piece of poplar(flying saucer remnants). Drilled the hole through with a long bit and they met in the middle, no creep at all. Sprayed with varathane. Went to the lighting place and bought some lamp bits and voila, a lamp. The blonde hates it but I think it will find a home somewhere, maybe in my man cave. 21" high with the base about 8" and spindle about 3", 31" high with the shade. Used a roughing gouge for the spindle and a bowl gouge for the base. Thanks to all involved.

 

[Sheptonphil]

A delicate inside out lamp, 11" high wood, 14" to top of lamp holder. Base 5" square.

Tools used 3/8 spindle gouge and 3/8 bowl gouge.

For this month's challenge I thought I would go outside my own comfort zone with some inside out turning. I had a nice piece of seasoned pine from the bed factory, approx 3" square. I ripped it into four lengthways and reversed each quarter, binding it temporarily with ca glue and 2" wide cloth sticky tape. I turned my double cove pattern, sanded and sealed to 600 and polished with Renaisance. Removed from the lathe the tape removed, all faces left square were very lightly planed to make them smooth and true, then split apart with a tap on a chisel blade. They were then reversed back to their original orientation, glued with PVA and allowed to dry overnight. Remounted and turned to follow the coves, exposing the hollowed centre. Top drilled with a 15mm forstner bit to house the light fitment, and the stem spigot made to mount to the base. The base made from a square of seasoned pine mounted on a face plate and turned to produce the top surface of the stand. (scary hitting air most of the time as the extremities were reached). A socket was made to take the lamp body, and then sanded, sealed and polished as before. Reversed onto finger jaws in the socket, the base was turned from edge to centre, following top shape at 3mm thick to produce a hollowed winged square base in keeping with the delicate look of the body. Carefully sanded and polished, with the wings being sanded by hand after the lathe had stopped.

 

[Vic Perrin]

A Sapele table Lamp 18" high to the top of the lamp holder with an 8" base.
Turned as two separate parts.
Record long hole boring rig used for drilling out centre.
Finished with 3 Coates of Coloron Natural Refined Danish Oil
Final finish with Chestnut Buffing System using red and white stick with a final buffing using microcrystalline wax.

 

[Vic Perrin]

I am not sure whether you can post more than 1 entry but here goes!
My son asked me to make a pair of bedside lamps to a design that he sketched.
I have not wired them yet as he is moving into a new house and I do not know what length of cable is required.

The lamps are 12" tall and come from a 8" x 4" oak plank.

Record long hole boring rig used for drilling out centre.
Finished with 3 Coates of Coloron Natural Refined Danish Oil
Final finish with Chestnut Buffing System using red and white stick with a final buffing using microcrystalline wax.

 

[Silverbirch]

My lamp is turned from a piece of cherry. Finished size is 215mm tall (excluding fittings) with a diameter of 95mm at the base.
The blank was bored through from each end with a long spur point bit in the tailstock to allow the wire to pass through, prior to shaping. This was carried out with a roughing gouge, spindle gouge and a couple of skews.
The exit hole for the flex was bored into the side, near the base, to meet the central hole. The hole in the base from the initial boring through was concealed with a small piece of stained hardwood. After sanding to 600 grit, the lamp was given a coat of finishing oil, then waxed and buffed by hand.

Ian

 

[Melinda_dd]

Ok so here's my meagre entry!

I wanted to try something I saw on the Internet a while ago so here it is......

A turned lamp.... with a turned shade!
I wasn't sure I was going to be able to get the sides thin enough to let the light through ...but I did!
I researched this and the shade had to be turned wet, and when getting thin... in the dark with a lamp on it to gage wall thickness. It is about 1mm thick.
I also thought it would crack but I turned this at the beginning of the month and it's fine.
Now I will admit the rest has been a bit of a rush as we're moving and in between packing haven't had much time for much else.

The shade is plum from a friends garden, the base I think is mahogany, and the feet are ash.
All turned with a bowl gouge, spindle gouge, and a small scraper.
Turned with my k10 chuck. And finished with friction polish.
If anyone can flip them please do..... posting from my phone! Edited CHJ

It really is a beautiful light it gives off..... a lovely orangey light. And the grain is just lovely.
Not sure of the design as I just let it evolve as I was turning it...... would have fit last months challenge too!
But hey... a points a point.

 

[heatherw]

Here is my entry if I can get thte photos up in time.

The base was turned out of apple, a trunk that I've had lying around for years. I cut a couple of chunks off, planed the middle and glued them together. I planned to make the lamp with lots of beads, but when the colours began to come through I didn't want to reduce the wood any more, and it also seems to be spalted, which I hadn't realised, so there were corky bits which were quite hard to finish, and drilling it was a nightmare, the bits went all over the place. I roughed the bark off and brought it to a conish cylinder, and then did the beads with a parting tool, which I've never tried before. The cone I (rather daringly) planed with the skew, though I really need a bigger skew for this, I couldn't tell where the point was in relation to the wood. The base is about 13cm wide and 28cm high, and is quite heavy so it was rocking all over the place before it was balanced.

I've got to go to the other computer, i can't get the photos up on this one. What I've spent all day more or less doing is faffing about with lamps and shades because I didn't like the normal ones you can buy. I've had so many ideas about lamps and shades this month that I've got enough to keep me going for a year. a lot of them aren't turned, though.

I sanded it with a disc thingy that I can't remember the name of, down to 320 grit and then sealed and waxed it, and rubbed it down with 0000 wire wool.

Computer soooo slow. sorry about the quality of the photos, it was too late to do them by daylight and I had problems con reflections.