Asked a whole bunch of questions before Christmas – thanks for all the help!

I made a simple jewellery/trinket box for my girlfriend for Christmas (her initials are MB)

And this desk lamp, with a plywood body and cement base

Pretty happy with both!

Cool is the shade made from ply as Well?

Yup, single sheet of 0.4mm ply.

Awesome, i really like those 🙂

Good design and good skill.

Fantastic. Love the lamp. 🙂

How did you bend the plywood?

There’s a chap working in newcastle who makes lamps very like that but about 7 foot tall. Like it!

lemonysam – Member
There’s a chap working in newcastle who makes lamps very like that but about 7 foot tall. Like it!

sounds cool, got a link?

Nice work!
Like the sketches too.

I love lamp.

OP did you get your hole?

I get how to bend the plywood for the upright, but how did you do it for the shade?

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Love the lamp!

Very impressed by that, good job!
method please!

Some pics of making the lamp;

Mold for concrete, with embedded bolts – leaving length exposed to put nuts on

Glueing the lamp shade. Masking tape to try pull it vaguely circular (not overly successful)

Glueing the main body, while clamped around mold. 5x 2mm sheets of ply, with a layer on either side to protect from the clamps.

Disk glued into lampshade to give rigidity and a glueing surface

Glueing lampshade to body

Very nice – where did you buy the ply?

Brilliant results. Were there any prototypes (i.e. cock ups) along the way?

Good skills Duane. There are shops that would charge the earth for that lamp.
Like here and here

^^ Why do people pay so much for a lamp?

Acquaintances of ours have lots of “designer ” stuff that just looks like stuff.

Nice work Duane…

I’d buy the lamp!

very nice.

Great work on the lamap.

Reminds me a little of this one:

alpin – Member 
^^ Why do people pay so much for a lamp? car?

alpin – Member 
^^ Why do people pay so much for a lamp? pair of jeans?

alpin – Member 
^^ Why do people pay so much for a lamp? (i) phone?

alpin – Member 
^^ Why do people pay so much for a lamp? bicycle?

Nice work op. Enjoy the ‘making-of’ pictures, and like the home solutions to clamping pressure… Looks a balancing act. 🙂

Nice lamp, it might be worth getting one of the LED bulbs that IKEA,etc sell. They give out no heat at all (you can touch the glass with your fingers which feels a bit weird after growing up with incandescent bulbs), so would prevent the wood discolouring due to heat.

cynic-al – Member

OP did you get your hole?

That’s awesome and very inspiring!

alexsimon – thin ply was tricky to get hold of, ended up getting it from a model shop.

hs125 – had a couple attempts at making the base – I initially used a normal cement/aggregate mix, which turned out way too crumby/didn’t set quick enough. Changed to quick set cement (no aggregate) – which is perfect for this kind of thing! Only other hiccough was dropping the lampshade and chipping the edge, so had to do a bit of glueing/sanding. Was my first try at laminating and it worked out pretty well which I was happy about!

doof doof – indeed, pretty similar, I did actually design this one before I first saw those lamps!

blaggers – good shout, will look into it.

cynic-al – huh?

i love lamp. Nice work on both counts, inspiring!

Love the lamp OP. How did you round off the concrete?

Metal file and sand paper! It is pretty easy to work with. Then coat of diluted PVA to seal it.

Wall clock I made this past week.

alexsimon – thin ply was tricky to get hold of, ended up getting it from a model shop.

Cheers, noted

Quick and simple laptop stands from a bit of old pallet wood.

Love that lamp. Very cool.

Nice finish on that pallet wood for the laptop stand! What did you use/how?

lemonysam – Member
There’s a chap working in newcastle who makes lamps very like that but about 7 foot tall. Like it!

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I thought it was this chap but I can’t find the exact thing I’m thinking of on his site he makes some similar though so it may be that it was a one off in his studio or it might have been one of the other guys in Ouseburn.
http://www.graham-warren.co.uk/

Think of a kind of combination of these ones of his:

Goldfish – sanded down and a few coats of dark oak varnish – nothing fancy!