More for first Friday

[TellicoTurning]

Also made a couple of tealights and hurricane lamps...(in case Dolly gets this far north??)
I have an abundance of spalted maple, so I work with that a lot... also lots of down cedar that's been laying on the back of my lot for I don't know how long... the sap wood is beginnig to powder, but the heart is still red and solid...

I get my lamp globes at the local good will store, the middle tealight has one of those oil cartridges you get at Wal Mart... the other tealights are the little lights that CSUSA sells.
In these pictures, the two tealights aren't finished yet... just raw wood, but have since taken back to the shop and buffed both out with carnuba wax... turned out really nice.

 

[Kalai]

Hi Chuck, very nice job, I like the shapes, how big are the tea lights? Keep turning, aloha.

Chris
Kalai

 

[nava1uni]

I like the wood grain in all of these lamps. Turning the lamps looks like it could be a new learning experience.

 

[TellicoTurning]

Thanks Chris..
the Tea lights sizes are.. the cedar is 3" high x 4 1/2" dia.. the second Cedar with the liquid candle is 2 1/2" high x 4" diameter... it was going to be bigger, but the wood was really dry and old and kept coming off until I got down to the very heart... both of these pieces are part of some trees that had fallen in a gully back behind my house... when I first moved in it was a tangled mess of logs and trees back there... I spent a week cutting and pulling trash and limbs out of the gully.
The maple is 2 1/4 in high x 5 1/2 od.. it's also part of a tree that fell on the lot, just missed the house by about 15 feet... it was huge and I still have a big pile of maple to turn..

Cindy,
The lamps are easy... it's mostly getting the outside shape to suit... the top is then drilled in with a parting tool so the globe will sit down into the top... then there's a place for the little liquid candle to sit... I have a ring within a ring for the two elements of the lamp. The wood is part of the tree I mentioned above.

 

[bitshird]

Neat work Chuck, some great thinking.