| Blog series by Tim & Candy Hicks | updated 181 days ago | 7 parts | 2707 reads | 27 comments total |
Part 1: Wicked Floor Lamp, what ribbon like movement
Nothing like having numerous projects to work on This lamp is very ribbon like; really flat but with lots of movement. It does have a small burl. The base will be cut down to size which will also shorten the lamp so that it is not so tall. We will scribe fit the lamp limb to fit the base. I have started sanding the limb and my husband has been working on the base.
Part 2: Sanded
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.
Part 3: Scribing / Shaping
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 / perpe...
Part 5: Drilling Holes
Here Tim is drilling the holes for the cord and the cord being ran through the lamp Patching holes
Part 6: Wicked Lamp is finished
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.
Part 7: Scribed & Bolted
Scribing is completed, it is bolted to the base and ready to drill the holes for the lamp cord.
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