Bed lamps

Converted old bedside table lamps into "shoji" style lamps.

Started with wood from the legs of a coffee table

Quartering each leg to get 16 legs
These were planed (further than the next photo) to remove all the molding
Planed and found pieces for the styles

One lamp was made first as a prototype

The difuser material was made from fairly heavy watercolour paper (140gsm) which was coated with polyurethane to make it translucent and more durable.

The grid pieces were cut from draw fronts, I think they are silky oak.

Rough cut pieces
Planed to thickness, some finger-jointed pieces came apart
Joined

A measuring mistake meant that all these grids didn't end up with the right proportions, so a couple of extra horizontal members were added in.

Prototype version
Extra horizontal pieces in the other 3

The main lesson from the prototype was that the lamp assembly needs to be easy to remove, this was pretty easy using a screw and washer to hold the lamp in position in a rebate in the base.