How to make a wooden lampshade

[HeyBub]

Video. Stick around to the end. The final result is, well, interesting:

[Colbyt]

I have to say that is pretty amazing. Well worth the 3 minutes or so to watch.

[Attila.Iskander]

Fascinating Too bad that you need to waste so much wood for a single shade.

Makes me wonder if it would not be possible to use a laser to cut multiple cylinders out of that piece, and then make a collection of shades of different diameters.

Also was the piece of wood green or dried ?

[The Daring Dufas]

There was another really cool video that showed up after that one:

TDD

[mike]

This is incredibly expensive, stupidly fragile, and a wood pattern could have been printed on a more standard shade easily.

[HeyBub]

He has another video wherein he makes a set of six toothpicks out of another block.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Obviously, you are not a woodworker. You could not be more wrong. You can also buy lamp shades at Wal Mart.

Some day I may have a lathe and I'd like to make something like that As for expensive, the wood may have been free. I've had and burned many logs like that. The only cost is a penny or two for the electricity turning the lathe.

[Colbyt]

Ed,

Before you read this. That is not bubble gum or tobacco in my cheek. It is my tongue.

How can you be so ungreen? A valuable firewood log was destroyed to satisfy one man's vanity!

A cheap Chinese made shade would have done the same job.

Can we filter out gmail posters?

Colbyt

[Ed Pawlowski]

I'm not ungreen at all. I firmly believe that materials no longer needed should be recycled or re purposed. The best lampshades are made by stretching foreskins over a used popsicle stick frame. They give the bulb a nice soft glow too.

[hrhofmann]

Did the cutter repurpose all the wood chips?

[HeyBub]

From the video we can't tell whether he wasted valuable energy or whether the lathe was pedel-powered. (Think of the poor people in darkest Africa!)

Some folks like to grouse before all the facts are in.

[Harry K]

The real waste was by me getting fascinated by all the U-tube vids and wasted 3 hours watching them last night when I could have been pedaling a bike to charge up a battery.

Harry K

[HeyBub]

Sort of "Cut and Trade"?

[mike]

I'm not talking about the cost of the electricity. I'm talking about the cost of the hourly rate of a woodturner skilled enough to turn wood down to light-permeable thicknesses for hours on end! Stupid, stupid, stupid (the endeavor, not you).

The cost of the lathe would be a secondary issue. The cost of electricity is beside the point.

[Jim Elbrecht]

Yeah, I hear you. I had to quit fishing because the damn fish was so expensive. I couldn't afford my 'relaxing' pills and still eat fish that cost $500/lb once I figured in my hourly wage.

Jim

[mike]

A more apt analogy would be raising fish in a fish tank for months, rather than fishing or going to to store.

Making a lampshade on a lathe is a rectal tonsillectomy. It's going about things the very hard way.

[HeyBub]

You actually EAT the fish you catch? You actually CATCH fish when you go "fishing?"

I thought the purpose of a fishing trip was to drink beer!

Shows what I know.

[Ed Pawlowski]

I repeat, you are obviously not a woodworker.

[krw]

Aren't toothpicks made by turning trees in a lathe?

[krw]

That would make AlBore smile.