Arts and Crafts Lamp

John,
Very nice. Would you care to go into a little more detail on things like the shade pieces and how you went about making the lamp?

Excellent job!

-- Ethan, http://greystonegreen.blogspot.com/

Fantastic stuff…there’s great art in woodworking. Keep it up.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

so much better than the cheap lamp kit bits. I may have to get creative when I (finally) get to that stage on my lamp. Is the shade glass?

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Hi Guys. Thanks for the compliments. I used a plan from an old issue of Woodworker’s journal.

I put together a scan of some of the details for another fellow, so I’ll share it here too:
http://www.eaglelakewoodworking.com/MissionLamp/AandC_Lamp.pdf

The shade does have real glass that I got
from http://www.sunshineglass.com/

They happen to be local for me, but they do ship. They were great to deal with.

Let me know if you’d like more info…

-- John Nixon - Buffalo, NY - http://www.EagleLakeWoodworking.com

The nichols were a nice touch you did a good job of interpreting. jockmike

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

That is so nice John! I’d like to do something like this myself. I know nothing about glass and thanks for the link, but can you tell me exactly what glass you used on their site? They have so many I can’t find something close to your selection.

I love the style!

-- Brian, Alabaster, AL

Brian, Sunshine’s site isn’t the easiest to get around, but I think the glass I bought was
“SP 315.1 – dense white/med amber (bone) code AA” from the first page in this PDF:
http://www.sunshineglass.com/pdf/spectrum.pdf

The glass was about $60 cut to size. It would have been more money for me to buy the full sheet that I would have needed to get all the pieces. Granted, I would have has some left over for something else, but I thought leaving the cutting to them was a good idea. It’s not that I couldn’t have done, but for about the same price I went the no hassle route.

Thanks for the kind words, I’m glad you like the lamp.

-- John Nixon - Buffalo, NY - http://www.EagleLakeWoodworking.com

Thanks much John, I appreciate the help. You picked a great color glass to compliment it for sure!

-- Brian, Alabaster, AL

Great Lamp John. Have you seen Dusty’s. he made one with a similiar shape. and used stained glass for the shade.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

John -

Nice touch with the Buffalo Nickels. Great resources in your replies. I bet this light looks great when lit. Excellent as always!

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Thanks David. My wife loved the nickels. It was kind of neat to have something unique to put on the pull chains. I think I’m also going to inlay buffalo nickels in the pool table rails.

-- John Nixon - Buffalo, NY - http://www.EagleLakeWoodworking.com

Very, very nice lamp, it is soooo nice that my wife wants one. I will using a red birds eye eucalyptus burl that I will cut into verneers about 1/16 thick and not the glass, wish me luck.

-- Garysharp "When sharpening woodworking tools, good enough,...isn't" “Your life’s complete only when your knowledge passes on”.

Thanks Gary. This lamp is one of those projects that you’ll be very proud of when you complete it. The shade is a challenge, and to succeed in meeting the challenge is a great accomplishment. I really like the sound of using veneer as the shade material. I wonder if the heat will distort the veneer. Please post some pictures when you’re done so we can see and hear how it worked out.

-- John Nixon - Buffalo, NY - http://www.EagleLakeWoodworking.com