Tiki Lamps by Trad'r Bill

On 2009-01-20 21:07, Trad'r Bill wrote:

More stuff I want to make into a lamp:

Trad'r Bill

So are these lights yet?
Lets see em!!!

Not yet - been lagging and my pile-o-parts is getting bigger... I think I have enough for like 7 or 8 lamps now!
Thanks for the push tikiskip - stay tuned!

Trad'r Bill

Hi Trad'r Bill, love you and tikiskip's lamps. Can you guys recommend bulb type and wattage that you're using?

Keep up the fantastic work, I really enjoy seeing your stuff.

Chris

westadad.blogspot.com

[ Edited by: WestADad 2010-04-15 10:08 ]

Very nice lamps! Really like the weave and patterns.

Hey Westadad,
All watts, All sizes.
It depends on the fixture what color, wattage, C7, C9, standard bulb.
But most times I try to go with no more than 25 watts.
You need to keep many different bulbs on hand so you can try them and see
for yourself.
The 15 to 25 watt amber bulb is great! Use that one a lot.

Thank you Sir! Off to the hardward store this evening.

Chris

http://www.westadad.blogspot.com

Race ya!
It will be kind of fun to see how this same found item
is done by two different people.
As you can see mine is smaller than yours. Ha! that's funny!

tikiskip - I'm down! I'll try to make some progress tonight since I'll be out of town all weekend... this will be fun.

Trad'r Bill

I got a few ideas for this light.
Going to show them here if you don't mind.
Kinda think out loud, on line.

Post away tikiskip - I don't mind one bit!

Quality workmanship. Even the top looks great. A perfect lamp. Wendy

I'm almost done with my rattan 'birdcage' lamp. I'm not quite finished, so here's just a peek:

tikiskip - how's yours going?

-Trad'r Bill

Been working on lights for a Kahiki party here on May 1st.
So most of my time is in that.
But I did get some work on this light done.
Ok so the ball on the end bugged me.
Kinda reminded me of the Thomasville collection by Broyhill.
So that had to go. Wish I had roughed up the surround a bit as well.
Here are some options I had and lastly the one I ended up with.
Next the top.
Well that one is going to take some time.
Found items don't look too good, This is a kinda small size.
Am going to need to make a hat for the top of this light to get it just right.


This would have been cool, but would have taken longer.

I do this to the tops of lights a lot, It looks good I think, AND it adds strength to the top.

This is what I ended up with.

I don't know, sounded better than it looks.

Close, but still the hat needs to be bigger.
Going to make the hat next.
Should be two or three weeks.
See you soon.

lookin' good tikiskip... your attention to detail is great.

I haven't been able to finish mine yet - I've got my schedule full with going to TVs Emeryville every night this week before they close - heheh

Take lots of video of Trader Vic's before it goes out.
Um er... "remodels"

I finished the birdcage lamp tonight - It's pretty simple, but I think it looks nice... I used papyrus for the shade and vintage cork fishing floats on the bottom:

Thanks for lookin'

-Trad'r Bill

[ Edited by: Trad'r Bill 2010-04-28 23:50 ]

Looks good.
I like the papyrus.
Thought about baging the dome also.
I need some of those corks.
Can't find em anymore.

Sweet lamp! What do you think about having larger holes in the cork to let a little downward light out?

Chris

http://www.westadad.blogspot.com

[ Edited by: WestADad 2010-04-29 06:56 ]

thanks tikiskip
Chris - I kinda knew the bottom wouldn't let much light through, but I wanted to leave the cork floats intact. Thanks for looking!

hey tikiskip, did you finish your birdcage lamp?

Been doing the whole spring clean up thing.
So no not yet.
Should get back to it though.

I finished up this double-weave lamp today... the woven shade is vintage, and the inner green shade and lamp guts were added by me. I found some pretty cool paper I used for the shade - it reminds me of sea grass...

It's hard to tell from the pictures, but there is actually an inner and outer woven shade. Sorry but the pictures came out extra-blurry this time

Trad'r Bill

[ Edited by: Trad'r Bill 2010-06-20 20:51 ]

[ Edited by: Trad'r Bill 2010-06-20 21:37 ]

Look what I found today... time to make some beachcomber style lamps.

Trad'r Bill

Anyone wrapped tapa over bottom of a lampshade. Any ideas how I could accomplish this?

gold zephyr-

I haven't done this before, but I would:

• back the tapa with a more rigid material
• rough-cut the backed tapa so you have some overhang on the edge of the shade
• hot glue it to the bottom of the shade (3-4 inches at a time)
• trim the tapa around the edges of the shade
• glue on some type of trim material to cover the seam between the tapa/shade

Have fun and post pics!

-Trad'r Bill

Good tips there TB. I would like light to shine through-forgot to mention that part. Anyhow, will figure out how to reinforce tapa using a transparent material. Keep you posted

Gold Z

"hey tikiskip, did you finish your birdcage lamp"

DONE!
It only took one year.

Cool work, great variety to your design.

The green parchment glow is soooo sci-fi, alien glowing eye cool!!

I SECOND WHAT ROBB SAID, WENDY

God I love that lamp nice job! How do you get those pieces of bamboo to stay in the lamp?