Dodecahedron Pendant light cover

Great going! It is called sticktoativeness and it is a good thing. I wish more people had it.
Do you have any pics of the build process?
.............Jim

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!!

Outstanding project.Sure you have lot of woodworking skill when you can make something like this.Very nice.

-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted

It looks great!

The stain came out nice and you did not loose the grain.
You did a lot of sanding, judging from the various grits.

I would love to see the final product.

Great job.

HERMOSA LÁMPARA MARCOS!!!!!!!
VISTE QUE TODO TE SALIÓ BIEN??
Y ES PORQUE CUANDO ALGO SALE MAL, UNO APRENDE ALGO
Y ESO ES LO BUENO JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA

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Nice work! Lovely grain match in pic 3. Almost too interesting to have as just a lampshade. It would make a great conversation piece on its own.
Jim

-- It always looks better when it's finished!

Howdy Lumberjocks!

Thank you very much for the kind compliments.

Jim – I like sticktoitiveness better than obsessive. I did a blog on the process but it’s full of my failures. After about 5 failures, I stopped taking the pictures and wouldn’t you know? I caught a break. I ultimately used a glue up trick that lanwater showed me. I cut strips and glued them together into a pentagon roll. Lanwater has a really good walkthrough on that process.

Majulva – I’d like to think that I’m a better wood worker now than when I started this project. You guys have given me the courage to try. You all have also given some key pieces of knowledge. The combination of my failures and the knowledge from lumberjocks is a fantastic teacher. I like being able to come here and ask – what did I do wrong? I always get some kindly advice.

Lanwater – I’m going to keep it short. It’s not anywhere perfect but I could NOT have done it with out you. Thank you my friend. I’ll add a photo when it’s installed.

JR – Thank you for the high compliment. I struggled with the grain immensely. The folk here do such amazing things with the grain that I tried my best to make something happen with it. This time I got lucky. Next time I’m going to be intentional about it.

-- Learning is like a door. Open it and there are hundreds more on the other side. Thanks for all the lessons!

Kova,

Una vez más estoy usando Google Translate. Gracias mi amigo. Usted ha sido muy amable y de apoyo a lo largo de todo este proyecto. Siempre apppreciate la sabiduría que hemos compartido.

-- Learning is like a door. Open it and there are hundreds more on the other side. Thanks for all the lessons!

Mark,

Kudos on completing the woodworking phase of a very complex project.

I can only imagine the patience it took to align that many ‘confounded’ compound angles ;-) , but you did it and you did it well.

I’m certain it will be displayed prominently as a testament to your tenacious “sticktoativeness” and rightly so.

Congrats on working outside your ‘comfort zone’ and developing a new level of skill.

Work Safely and have Fun. – Len

-- Mother Nature should be proud of what you've done with her tree. - Len ...just north of a stone's throw from the oHIo, river that is, in So. Indiana.

Grandpa Len,

I really appreciate your encouragement and pointers. The best part about your pointers is I get to keep them. All my projects will be better for it.

I’ll tell you something interesting. I have a small entry way table in mind. In my minds eye I see a perfectly cut, fitted, glued, sanded, finished, high-end table. I’m comparing my “vision” to my skill set and tools. I think I have everything. What a major difference from my past endeavors. What a difference people like you have made.

I’m going to put my “new level of skill”, as you put it, to the test on an “easier” project. It will be a few months but what are a few months in the grand scheme of things?

-- Learning is like a door. Open it and there are hundreds more on the other side. Thanks for all the lessons!

Nice workmanship there.

-- Backer boards, stop blocks, build oversized, and never buy a hand plane--

i like it , i think i am going to make me one ..

Really nice rhombic dodecahedron. I once made a large dice with that shape. So I can imagine this one being even more difficult. Great job.

I need some lamps myself, so I might attempt to make one myself. Do you plan on just adding a fitting and a lightbulb, or are you planning to add something more, like e.g. some fabric?

PS. It did remind me of this project: http://lumberjocks.com/projects/55001

Hey Lumber Jocks – thanks again for the comments.

Gerben – I’m so sorry I didn’t reply sooner. This post has the picture of the dodecahedron made into a light fixture.

http://lumberjocks.com/topics/39410

Best of luck to you! Please get with me before you start. There are a lot of errors you can avoid the first time through.

-- Learning is like a door. Open it and there are hundreds more on the other side. Thanks for all the lessons!

Thank you Mark. Looks really nice with just a bulb. Just have to find something to replace the incandescent bulb (not very eco) with, that looks just as good.

Nice to read the whole discussion leading up the the final product. If I get stuck I’ll contact you for sure, thanks.

I hear you there Gerben. My walk through is a mess and it’s really wrong…. I’m going to make a table with a dodecahedron base and a pentagon top. I don’t know why I jump from more difficult to more difficult every time. Can’t seem to help myself. ;)

-- Learning is like a door. Open it and there are hundreds more on the other side. Thanks for all the lessons!