Wooden Lamp

This is a wooden lamp, made from wood waiting to be burned to harm up my home. It could be made with any kind of wood, I even don't know what kind of wood is this.

As tools what did I used?

• Sand paper
• Disk saw (to cut the wood) can be done with any saw, that's not a big wood stick
• Drill machine
• Tick-tick machine
• Router (to the edges)
• Wooden glue

To the eletrical part

• bushing
• eletric cable
• lamp
• light switch
• plug

To finish it

• forniture oil from WalrusOil
• darkwak (to the base)

It is a simple project made with simple tools

As a first step, find a wooden stick, if there's a curved one bring it.

Cut the stick, remove it's cover and sand it until it is clean and have the visual you want.

After that, create the holes, I wanted to pass the wire on the front and go back again, so I did a few ones. Use your creativity!

I made 3 holes on the stick bottom to connect it to the base using 3 pins.

Using some items (I don't know the name) I replicates those 3 holes on the bottom to the base.

This base is from pine, some pine wood I had as waste of other projects. I rounded it on the front, cutted the edges using a router, then sanded it.

Once the pine is a light wood, I needed to turn it dark, so I used a dark wax.

On a wooden lamp, I thought the plastic bushing could eleminate the natural feeling, so I decided to create my on, from a small waste I cuted from the stick, I sanded it, open a hole on it to insert the plastic bushing.

I rounded the bottom, so it could appear like a common bushing.

The electrical part is the easier one, but you can have some frustration if you miss the rigth order with the electrical cable and the joins.

So my order was

1. Pass the cable through the stick holes
2. Put the cable inside the bushing (the wooden one and the bottom of the plastic one
3. Conect the cable to the plastic bushing (with this, the top is done)
4. On the bottom, cut the cable, add the light switch, connecting the cables
5. Cut again the cable and add the plug

On the stick I added forniture oil from WalrusOil (here) and that's it.

When I added the lamp the first time, my bushing falled down, so I glued it to the stick with some drops of glue (titebond III)

Add a lamp and it's done