[Woodworkers] Lamp Construction

[Dominic58]

I did see this but didn’t reply to it.....maybe use a band saw to get the rough shape and a lot of sanding..

Thank you
Dominic P

> On Sep 4, 2019, at 6:34 PM, Chuck Steger via Woodworkers <woodworkers at lists.sawdusters.org> wrote:
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> My granddaughter asked me to build a lamp for her bedroom. Would appreciate some advice on the construction.
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> The picture is off a big box store web and the only dimensions are 29” high and !7” wide. This is the height to the finial and the diameter of the lamp shade. I printed it and extrapolated out some rough dimensions. I realize with the picture skewed it throws off some dimensions and so I wanted more eyes on it.
> 1.    The height of the wooden piece is 16 ¾”. The width of the base is 9¾” – 10”. At first I thought it was square but looks more rectangular. The dimension of the depth (from the printing) is about 3” but that seems narrow for a 10” wide base. Does 5” sound better? Do I hear 7”. Are my eyes just deceiving me and it’s wider? Of course, the beauty of a build like this is I can make it what I want so does a 5”x10” base seem reasonable or is that even too narrow for a lamp? I’m going to make a cardboard footprint before I start any construction.
> 2.    It looks like it is constructed in 5 sections (tiers) with the top being a block of wood. It appears to be mitered.
> 3.    I’m not too concerned with the top 3 sections. I can use a router and TS to make those profiles and they are not large.
> 4.    The bottom 2 sections concern me. The base would be 5”D x 10”W x 4 ¾”T. How do you do a cove that big? Will a TS do it? Is it a BS and spokeshave approach?
> 5.    The 2nd tier is about 4 ¾” x 9 ¾” W x 6 ¾”T. How do I make that profile? Is that also a  BS and spokeshave approach as well?
> 6.     And then finally, how would you miter pieces that thick? Shape them miter? I think that would be easier as long as I can miter with the flat side down.
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>    I was really hoping she would pick something round I could make on the lathe J
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> Chuck
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