A classic, heirloom-quality turned wooden lamp base featuring an elegant, stable silhouette. This project details the precise process of preparing a FAS Walnut column and base plate, boring a perfectly centered deep axial wiring channel, turning the profiles on a lathe, and assembling the components using a continuous 1/4-IP threaded steel pipe acting as a tension tie. The construction details are designed to accommodate wood movement while maintaining perfect concentricity.
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Materials
- FAS Walnut Turning Blank
- 8/4 FAS Walnut Lumber
- Self-Adhesive Wool Felt Pad
Tools Required
- Wood lathe (minimum 12" swing)
- Lathe drive center and live tailstock center
- Four-jaw lathe chuck with standard jaws
- 3/8" spindle gouge
- 1/2" oval skew chisel
- 1/8" parting tool
- Drill press
- 1/2" x 18" long aircraft extension drill bit
- 1-1/2" Forstner bit
- 1" Forstner bit
- Calipers and center finder