Steve Maskery
Old Oak
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Are you suggesting I look like a Bond villain? I'm just a pussycat really. No, wait, that's not the right metaphor...
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Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!
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Are you suggesting I look like a Bond villain? I'm just a pussycat really. No, wait, that's not the right metaphor...
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Steve Maskery
Old Oak
Well having decided that the Douglas Fir that I thought was beautiful six months ago now looks too brash, I took the plunge and painted it. Aerosol cans don't last long, do they? It's cost me a fortune!
To attach the flex I cut a slit in a short length of rubber tubing and screwed it into the groove. I forgot there is a steel pin not far inside... Whilst the idea works well, the tubing itself is too soft and doesn't grip the flex very securely.
The lamp also needs something similar at the top end, I'm not happy relying on gravity at the fishing rod end. I think I'll dispense with the slit idea and just use tubing. It will mean rewiring, but the lamp would look better with a black plug on it rather than a white one, anyway.
I've also taken on board Bob's observation of its location. So I've moved my existing Tiffany lamp to the sofa and sat this one by my Old Man's chair. It's a much better place for it.
Now, the burning question is, do I actually like it? I think so. I'm not certain, but I think so. It's unlike anything I've ever made before, that's for sure!
To attach the flex I cut a slit in a short length of rubber tubing and screwed it into the groove. I forgot there is a steel pin not far inside... Whilst the idea works well, the tubing itself is too soft and doesn't grip the flex very securely.
The lamp also needs something similar at the top end, I'm not happy relying on gravity at the fishing rod end. I think I'll dispense with the slit idea and just use tubing. It will mean rewiring, but the lamp would look better with a black plug on it rather than a white one, anyway.
I've also taken on board Bob's observation of its location. So I've moved my existing Tiffany lamp to the sofa and sat this one by my Old Man's chair. It's a much better place for it.
Now, the burning question is, do I actually like it? I think so. I'm not certain, but I think so. It's unlike anything I've ever made before, that's for sure!
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Much better location Steve. Really shows it off nicely. :eusa-clap:
Bob
Bob
MattS
Nordic Pine
Looks great, wasn’t sure on the colours but they work well in the location.
Pete Maddex
Old Oak
Looks nice Steve, prefer it to the bare wood.
Brown plug and hotmelt glue to hold the flex in.
Pete
Brown plug and hotmelt glue to hold the flex in.
Pete
Steve Maskery
Old Oak
Thanks chaps.
Bob - Thank you. Good idea
Matt - Location, location, location. It makes or breaks a piece, doesn't it?
I remember reading MikeG's thread about his bathroom mirror and thinking that whilst I admired the workmanship, I couldn't understand the appeal of making something that looked positively medieval. Then, when we had the Bog Oak Day, I saw it in the flesh and the penny dropped. It was just right.
Similarly, I could never see the appeal of Frank Lloyd Wright stuff. But then I went to New York and visited a museum (I forget which one, but it backs on to Central Park - would it be the Smithsonian?) as I wanted to see the Shaker collection. It was closed! Mothballed for some reason. But they had a room, a complete setting, of FLW pieces and it looked absolutely stunning.
Pete - Thank you. Can you get brown plugs? I've not seen one since the Bakelite days of yore. I did think of hot melt glue, but that is a bit permanent for my liking. If I had to remove it for some reason it would knacker up the fibres of the flex.
Andy - You are reright, where it is now, the swivel is rather redundant, I think. But it would have been more useful if I'd kept it by the sofa. Making the back leg and crook as one would be a considerably more challenging lamination, I think.
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Bob - Thank you. Good idea
Matt - Location, location, location. It makes or breaks a piece, doesn't it?
I remember reading MikeG's thread about his bathroom mirror and thinking that whilst I admired the workmanship, I couldn't understand the appeal of making something that looked positively medieval. Then, when we had the Bog Oak Day, I saw it in the flesh and the penny dropped. It was just right.
Similarly, I could never see the appeal of Frank Lloyd Wright stuff. But then I went to New York and visited a museum (I forget which one, but it backs on to Central Park - would it be the Smithsonian?) as I wanted to see the Shaker collection. It was closed! Mothballed for some reason. But they had a room, a complete setting, of FLW pieces and it looked absolutely stunning.
Pete - Thank you. Can you get brown plugs? I've not seen one since the Bakelite days of yore. I did think of hot melt glue, but that is a bit permanent for my liking. If I had to remove it for some reason it would knacker up the fibres of the flex.
Andy - You are reright, where it is now, the swivel is rather redundant, I think. But it would have been more useful if I'd kept it by the sofa. Making the back leg and crook as one would be a considerably more challenging lamination, I think.
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Pete Maddex
Old Oak
Hi Steve
Brown plugs https://www.amazon.co.uk/Exalt-Branded- ... 5337107992
Small boobs of hot melt is all you need, I did it on my crane lamp.
Pete
Brown plugs https://www.amazon.co.uk/Exalt-Branded- ... 5337107992
Small boobs of hot melt is all you need, I did it on my crane lamp.
Pete
Steve Maskery
Old Oak
Pete, I'm not really into small boobs, thanks.
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Pete Maddex
Old Oak
Pete
Steve Maskery
Old Oak
It's Sunday evening. You are bored out of your mind. Why not waste 21 minutes on this?
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Apparently today is the longest day - so it was very easy to spend 21 minutes in your virtual company, Steve. I really like your style - sharing the risk of messing things up, but getting a good result in the end. An unusually high hand-tool count for one of your builds, I think, but the jigs still outnumber them, eh! 
PS - the swivel pin is only mild steel, but I don't think it will rust through for a while yet.
PS - the swivel pin is only mild steel, but I don't think it will rust through for a while yet.