Post #803735 by swizzle on Fri, May 27, 2022 3:38 AM

Thanks Hamo, we've spoken since your comment.

Although i'm probably more well known for my ceramics (if i am at all), and do enjoy that medium, i've always loved working with wood and power tools and must say i feel more proud and happy with something i've made out of wood compared to a mug, no matter how i proud i might be of any mug.

Lamps are something i've always wanted to make and it wasn't until i made it to the Hukilau, and subsequently the Mai Kai, and seeing all the lamps there, that motivated me to start making my own.

There are lots of others who make lamps i could never compete with (Woody Greenwood is the perfect example), however i believe i've forged my own style using found items and working out how to incorporate them into a lamp using woodworking techniques i've learnt and employed using since i first started making them.

Without going back through my thread i'm sure i've posted a few lamps i've made over the years (although not all of them) but below is what i have made in the past couple of years. I don't have pics of all of them lit up only because i just can't get good pics of them that way and of those that i do the photos don't do them justice, they look better than that in person.

So after all that here they are. If they're out of order and/or don't make sense, that's not my fault. 'Dropping' photos in this new version of TC is not really that straight forward.

Now this is the only lamp i'm going to talk about. A couple of months ago i found this fishtrap looking thingy at the local antique store. It wasn't cheap, for what it is, but i knew i could make a cool lamp out of it.

I bought some acrylic and made a 'box' which i covered with REAL tapa. Now that tapa was some i bought from Oceanic Arts, the first time i went there on my trip in 2012, specifically to use for making lamps and is actually the very first time i've used it. (There's more to that i'll talk about in my next post).

I bought a colour changing light bulb however i like it best set to a dim, warm white, because it makes it, the tapa, look like it does in real life. The other pics are of the same lamp with the bulb 'set' to different colours and there's one there with this particular lamp 'on' next to another lamp of mine. (That lamp has a colour changing light bulb in it too however it is set to a light blue but doesn't look like it in the pics).

I think that covers everything in regards to lamps. 'Frames' are next but i have to finish a couple more before i post about them. After that, i'm not saying......