Shadrach's Lamps

[Shadrach]

Question...what are the glass globes you show in some of your first lamp posts? Are they just ornamental or do they "do" something?

Nice woodworking! I especially like how you add designs into the wood on some of them.

I had a spell of making a series of lamps, each with a 'technical' joke. All the lamps have names. The lamp with the two glass domes for example, is called balance. When you view the lamp from the front, the two pieces of wood in the glass domes represent equal weights. However, the base of the balance is on an angle. Would this be the correct orientation if the lamp was a set of scales?
One of the lamps in the first set of pictures is a lighthouse of a kind. The lamp is called strobe. Would the lamp produce a strobe effect if the lighthouse bulb was lit and rotated?
The designs in black I'm rather fond of to. It took a while to get the slate and adhesive paste right.

 

[N F C]

I had a spell of making a series of lamps, each with a 'technical' joke. All the lamps have names. The lamp with the two glass domes for example, is called balance. When you view the lamp from the front, the two pieces of wood in the glass domes represent equal weights. However, the base of the balance is on an angle. Would this be the correct orientation if the lamp was a set of scales?
One of the lamps in the first set of pictures is a lighthouse of a kind. The lamp is called strobe. Would the lamp produce a strobe effect if the lighthouse bulb was lit and rotated?
The designs in black I'm rather fond of to. It took a while to get the slate and adhesive paste right.

Interesting, thanks for the explanation!

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Shadrach those are all very impressive !
This one, is my favorite! Absolutely stunning!

 

[WVduckchick]

I had a spell of making a series of lamps, each with a 'technical' joke. All the lamps have names. The lamp with the two glass domes for example, is called balance. When you view the lamp from the front, the two pieces of wood in the glass domes represent equal weights. However, the base of the balance is on an angle. Would this be the correct orientation if the lamp was a set of scales?
One of the lamps in the first set of pictures is a lighthouse of a kind. The lamp is called strobe. Would the lamp produce a strobe effect if the lighthouse bulb was lit and rotated?
The designs in black I'm rather fond of to. It took a while to get the slate and adhesive paste right.

What do you use to carve out the designs that are filled with the slate/adhesive?

 

[Shadrach]

What do you use to carve out the designs that are filled with the slate/adhesive?

I use engineering needle files ground to edges and points and a skalpel to carve the designs in the wood.

 

[kwhites634]

I started making lamps three years ago.
In the National Park where I live and the surrounding area hundreds of hardwood trees are cut for firewood every year. All the lamps and other wooden items are made from pieces of firewood that would otherwise have got burned.
Most of these items are made from various types of hardwood that grow locally; Alzina (Holm Oak) Alzina Surera (Cork Oak) and a fruit bearing tree called Arboc, Boix (Box) and Pollancre The Beech used comes from another area.

All these items are hand made using traditional woodworking hand tools. The only machine used is an electric drill for the cable and lamp stem holes.
I do the rough work outside and the engraving and fine work on my kitchen table.
The designs in black are carved into the wood and the voids are then filled with a paste made from slate dust and adhesive; these are sanded and refilled until flush with the wood.
No paints or varnishes or wood dyes are used. The finish is achieved with various mineral and wood based oils and beeswax.
They really are hand made.

I have a product name which is Llenya Art (Llenya, means firewood in Catalan) and I sell a few each year from commissions, or through the local arts and crafts fair. I seem to give quite a few away.

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You've quite a gift there

 

[kwhites634]

I started making lamps three years ago.
In the National Park where I live and the surrounding area hundreds of hardwood trees are cut for firewood every year. All the lamps and other wooden items are made from pieces of firewood that would otherwise have got burned.
Most of these items are made from various types of hardwood that grow locally; Alzina (Holm Oak) Alzina Surera (Cork Oak) and a fruit bearing tree called Arboc, Boix (Box) and Pollancre The Beech used comes from another area.

All these items are hand made using traditional woodworking hand tools. The only machine used is an electric drill for the cable and lamp stem holes.
I do the rough work outside and the engraving and fine work on my kitchen table.
The designs in black are carved into the wood and the voids are then filled with a paste made from slate dust and adhesive; these are sanded and refilled until flush with the wood.
No paints or varnishes or wood dyes are used. The finish is achieved with various mineral and wood based oils and beeswax.
They really are hand made.

I have a product name which is Llenya Art (Llenya, means firewood in Catalan) and I sell a few each year from commissions, or through the local arts and crafts fair. I seem to give quite a few away.

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The pictures below are from an arts and crafts fair last year.
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You've quite a gift there

 

[kwhites634]

I started making lamps three years ago.
In the National Park where I live and the surrounding area hundreds of hardwood trees are cut for firewood every year. All the lamps and other wooden items are made from pieces of firewood that would otherwise have got burned.
Most of these items are made from various types of hardwood that grow locally; Alzina (Holm Oak) Alzina Surera (Cork Oak) and a fruit bearing tree called Arboc, Boix (Box) and Pollancre The Beech used comes from another area.

All these items are hand made using traditional woodworking hand tools. The only machine used is an electric drill for the cable and lamp stem holes.
I do the rough work outside and the engraving and fine work on my kitchen table.
The designs in black are carved into the wood and the voids are then filled with a paste made from slate dust and adhesive; these are sanded and refilled until flush with the wood.
No paints or varnishes or wood dyes are used. The finish is achieved with various mineral and wood based oils and beeswax.
They really are hand made.

I have a product name which is Llenya Art (Llenya, means firewood in Catalan) and I sell a few each year from commissions, or through the local arts and crafts fair. I seem to give quite a few away.

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The pictures below are from an arts and crafts fair last year.
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You've quite a gift there

 

[Shadrach]

You've quite a gift there

Thank you.

 

[Shadrach]

I've been meaning to post some pics of the last fair.