Seahorse Night Lamp

[FrankEV]

This Night Lamp is made from solid Red Oak, is 12” high overall, the base and top are 5 1/2” square made from 1/2” thick material, and the lamp body is 4 1/2” square by 10” high made from 1/4" thick material. The body side walls were stack cut and cut using Pegas #0 spiral blades.  

The top is loose for bulb replacement purposes.   The Red Oak was enhanced and finished with multiple coats of a combination of Minwax Red Oak Stain and Minwax Satin Wipe-On Poly.

The Clear blue Plexiglas was frosted by using spray adhesive to affix sheets of clear velum film to the inside surface of the Plexiglas.

The Electrical components include a premade 6’ lamp cord with an inline rocker switch, a threaded nipple w/nuts, a nipple mounted candelabra bulb socket base and a round 25 watt bulb.  

I created the Lamp body Seahorse Pattern to supplement my collection of nautical themed projects I’m putting together.

The construction of this lamp is almost identical to the Hummingbird Lamp I made for my Lady a while back, but this time it went together better because I knew what I was doing.  Also, this time all the chamfers and the body corner joint bevel cuts were completed on the Router table.

 

 

This pic shows the bottom of the top with a gluded on piece of 1/4 Oak Ply that acts as a retainer to keep the top in place.  A similar piece of 1/4" Oak ply was glused to the base to provise a greater gluing surface for the lamp body attachnemt to the base.  This view also shows the installed velum coated Plexiglas difuser.

Edited May 24, 2021 by FrankEV

[meflick]

Beautiful piece.

[CSull]

wow, very nice!

[lawson56]

I agree WOW!! Beautiful job!!

[wombatie]

Lovely.  You did a great job Frank.

Marg

[ben2008]

Excellent. We like it a lot. We also like nautical items, Our family room is nautical themed and has many nautical themed pieces. Some I made and some I bought. In fact, I'm working a Intarsia Mermaid right now to add to our theme. 

Edited May 25, 2021 by ben2008

[munzieb]

Great job, You are getting this lamp thing down pat!

[daveww1]

fantastic job

[FrankEV]

2 hours ago, munzieb said:

...You are getting this lamp thing down pat!

Yep, as long as I make the same basic one over and over.

 

[Charlie E]

Very nice job! That would be nice to look at while winding down waiting on the Sandman.

[new2woodwrk]

Now that is a gorgeous lamp!

Love the theme!

[WolfmoonCT]

Where did you find the pattern for it?

 

[FrankEV]

1 hour ago, WolfmoonCT said:

Where did you find the pattern for it?

 

I designed the lamp.  I created the Scroll saw pattern although I did steal the actual Seahorse part from a pattern I had purchased.

PM me if you want the pattern.