Floor Lamp on ShopSmith

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KyBill
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Floor Lamp on ShopSmith

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Hello All,
I started small on the lathe and now want to make a floor lamp. How do you make a tall lamp post with the wire in the middle in segments that will last?
Yes I'm still green.
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BuckeyeDennis
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I’d run a long piece of lamp pipe up the middle. It can serve as both a conduit for the wire, and as an end clamp for your turned lamppost segments.

This place seems to have a good selection of them.
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Hi,
Just commenting here... You'll possibly be challenged on keeping the thing "bottom heavy" enough to avoid tipping.

Here was an alternate Shopsmith-assisted way I did a lamp base:

https://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/view ... =5&t=20889

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Thanks for the info guys.

Glued tennon segments on a wide base sound about right?
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Update
Finished product
1st piece of furniture
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Nice looking table and functional. Did you turn the spindles too?
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Great job!
Gale's Law: The bigger the woodworking project, the less the mistakes show in any photo taken far enough away to show the entire project!

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stew wrote:Nice looking table and functional. Did you turn the spindles too?
Yes.
I really like turning now.
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Good job of turning!

I'm always impressed with turn pieces.

John
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