How to make an Arts and Crafts style lamp shade #6: Securing the mica
This chapter is the last, but I may add some more information later as/if I develop some simpler jigs or techniques. Here is a finished shade, walnut with Watco oil and a topcoat of pre-cat lacquer: I did a smoothing with #0000 steel wool then a rub down with a blue shop towel. The entire part was then waxed. It is much easier to do all this now when there are no mica panels in the way. I discussed the installation of the mica panels earlier, mainly focusing on ways to do it and how to make it possible to replace a damaged panel some years down the road. With the shade assembled, the mica retention along the stiles gets more complicated in that there is no way to easily...
