Bedside lamps

About the time Nicola moved into her own home she mentioned that she needed a pair of bedside lamps.  She bought the shades that she wanted in navy blue velvet, soon followed by a request for me to make me a pair of lamp bases to go with the shades.

That was just at the start of our lockdown in March.  She told me the sort of design and style she had in mind, but left me some latitude to apply my own creativity, however she was fairly sure she wanted a light coloured wood.  I told her it would have to wait a while, probably till after lockdown so that I could go and find some suitable wood of the right size and colour.  A few weeks ago I started looking around for wood, but the timber suppliers I found were quoting exhorbitant prices.

Then I shifted my search to carpenters and joiners in my neighbourhood and found a carpenter who works from his home just up the road doing mostly bespoke jobs.  Last week I went along to rummage through his offcut box, in which he had a perfect piece of American Oak, which he planed and cut to size for me.

So I spent several hours over the next few days making these lamp bases.  I'm very happy with the results, but more importantly Nicola likes them too!  See the photos to see the stages of the build.  Bases are about 125mm high and the square of the footprint is a little more than 100mm.