Floor lamps

I have acomplished this task by sawing the piece in half and then routing a 1/2” wide dado 1/4” deep in each half. When you glue them back together you have a 1/2” by 1/2” hole to pull your wires through. I don’t know if this would work in your case or not.

Thanks. It’s been driving me nuts trying to figure out how manufactures of floor lamps get the wire all the way through, especially when dealing with Twisted Juniper. I have made several table lamps using an 18” bit, from driftwood, Walnut and cedar but i would love to learn how to make a floor lamp and not have the wire showing or a cut seam.

I have a 36” long 1/2” drill bit, could be used from both sides to get to 5’. But that is for straight stock, not sure how to do it with curvy stock. There was a project on here where the guy made a curvy lamp, but never revealed how he did it.

-- Crashn - the only thing I make more of than sawdust is mistakes

I have done something like this… used a 16” long drill bit and then dug back in with an extender on it.. and then attacked in the same pattern from the other side.. and then poked around until I met in the middle. It’s not pretty, but you can’t tell.

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