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Twisted Coffee Table Base #7: Juniper Coffee Table Finished

Tim & Candy Hicks — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:29:29 GMT

This coffee table base was finished 2 months ago and we were able to get it shipped to The Netherlands. Out customer was going to put a rock fossil top on this, but had decided that it was so cool and unique that he ended up putting glass on it.

It is 17” tall, finished with 3 coats stain polycrylic.

Burled Juniper Log Floor Lamp #5: Completed Lamp

Tim & Candy Hicks — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:41:23 GMT

Here is the completed lamp it is

70” tall with the lamp shade

21×19 at the base

it weighs 60 lbs

The lamp shades are handmade. I do not make them a good friend of mine makes them for me. She does an excellent job.

Burled Juniper Log Floor Lamp #4: Turquoise inlay in the lamp

Tim & Candy Hicks — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:31:07 GMT

Here are progressive pictures as I am inlaying turquoise in the lamp.

Burled Juniper Log Floor Lamp #3: Turquoise in the base

Tim & Candy Hicks — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:22:02 GMT

The turquoise being inlayed in the base

Juniper Log Furniture : Floor Lamp #6: Wicked Lamp is finished

Tim & Candy Hicks — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:02:58 GMT

This lamp is just the coolest. The then ribbon movement and sweeping motion is phenomenal.

71” tall to the top of the shade

The base is 39” x 24”

It weighs 70 lbs

As you can see we added turquoise throughout.

Juniper Log Furniture : Floor Lamp #5: Drilling Holes

Tim & Candy Hicks — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:01:06 GMT

Here Tim is drilling the holes for the cord and the cord being ran through the lamp

Patching holes

Juniper Log Furniture : Floor Lamp #7: Scribed & Bolted

Tim & Candy Hicks — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:52:11 GMT

Scribing is completed, it is bolted to the base and ready to drill the holes for the lamp cord.

Juniper Log Furniture : Floor Lamp #4: Still scribing

Tim & Candy Hicks — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:47:28 GMT

Getting closer to where we want to be

Juniper Log Furniture : Floor Lamp #3: Scribing / Shaping

Tim & Candy Hicks — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:24:37 GMT

Okay here is one of the most tedious parts of this lamp. Here are pictures of how the lamp limb looked before we started shaping it to the base.

There are several types of scribing tools available, but we have not been able to find one that works for us. To start the process, we find the point where the limb is the higest from the base. This is our starting point for the line that we draw to start shaping. We use a pencil compass for our scribing lines. The line has to stay level / perpendicular to the top of the base and the space between your pencil and point on the base needs to stay consistent.

How to scribe a base:

1. Patience
2. Patience
3. Maybe a few swear words
4. Sanding & grinding
5. Draw more lines.
6. Sand some more
7. A few head scratches and lloks of confusion
8. More lines
9. More sandinb
10. repeat steps 7 – 9 until you reach the desired look.

Here is our starting point

Juniper Log Furniture : Floor Lamp #2: Sanded

Tim & Candy Hicks — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:01:50 GMT

It has been awhile since I have updated the progress on some of our projects.

Here is the limb and base, they are both sanded. The limb is ready to be scribe fitted to the base.