An elegant, classic turned table lamp base featuring a seamless hidden internal wiring channel. This project uses solid hardwood blanks and intermediate woodturning techniques to create a stable, heirloom-quality lamp. It incorporates a continuous 1/8-IP threaded steel pipe running down the center, functioning both as a robust tension tie to lock the column to the base and as a safe, code-compliant conduit for the electrical cord.
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Materials
- Black Walnut solid turning square (16/4)
- Black Walnut board (8/4, Select & Better)
Tools Required
- Woodworking Lathe (minimum 12" swing over bed)
- Spindle Roughing Gouge (1")
- Spindle Gouge (3/8" or 1/2")
- Parting Tool (1/8")
- Lathe Faceplate (4" or 6") or 4-Jaw Scroll Chuck
- Drill Press
- 3/8" x 12" aircraft extension drill bit
- 1" Forstner bit
- 2-1/2" Forstner bit
- Vernier calipers
- Center finder
- Table saw or band saw (to prep blanks)
- Chisel (1/4" wide) to clean wire channel