We finally finished this lamp on Wednesday and i spent all day yesterday taking pictures and getting our website updated. It took almost 2 hours to get this lamp patched and the holes blended. In this last batch of lamps we have 9 new lamps and would have had them finished on Tuesday but, it was real cold out so we built a fire in the shop, well the wind was blowing so hard that it was making the flames come out the door, then it started to smoke and man the shop was filled with smoke and some falling soot. So we poored water on the fire am got the air circulating and called it a day off.
Anyway here is the finished product
To see more pictures of this lamp just visit our website at www.rockymountain-twist.com and click on the picture of the lamp that you would like to see.
-- Tim & Candy Hicks Custom Log Furniture www.rockymountain-twist.com Dust... What Dust
9 comments so far
shiney5757
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posted 176 days ago
whaoo! just amazing.thanks.
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SteveKorz
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posted 176 days ago
Yup!! You’re right, that’s pretty darn COOL!!!!
-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
Bill Akins
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posted 176 days ago
Outstanding, I love it.
-- Bill from Lithia Springs, GA I love the smell of sawdust in the morning.
TomK
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posted 176 days ago
This is a beautiful lamp! How do you strip all that fibrous juniper bark off without going crazy? Do you have a special tool or process?
-- North Texas
Candy Hicks
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posted 176 days ago
Hahaha, well when we first started this business, we had no idea how to get the bark off so we sat here with screw drivers and peeled away. Needless to say, this did not work. After some research we found out that a pressure washer is the only way to go, we bought a new nozzle that shoots in a figure 8 pattern and it peels it off with ease.
-- Tim & Candy Hicks Custom Log Furniture www.rockymountain-twist.com Dust... What Dust
dennis mitchell
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posted 176 days ago
Great series. I enjoyed the journey.
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Max
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posted 176 days ago
That is one unique and beautiful work of art, from both you and mother nature. Well done….
-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT
Scott Bryan
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posted 175 days ago
Candy,
Thank you for the series. I have learned a great deal about these lamps. I appreciate the ability and effort that go into the creation of these lamps.
Very well done.
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.
Les Hastings
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posted 175 days ago
Awesome! Thanks for tour of the process’s involved.
-- Les, Wichita, Ks. (I'd rather be covered in saw dust!)