How to make a wooden lampshade

[Ed Pawlowski]

Sure I have, but this is not the place to use it. If you were a woodworker, you'd understand. The simplest way would be to go to Wal Mart and buy a friggin shade, but that is not the point is it?

When I wanted a stand for my new TV, my choices were easy. Buy one for about $100, or make one for $150 in materials and 15+ hours labor. I'm very proud of the stand I made. One of a kind, solid oak.

Want to hear about the cutting boards I made for gifts? The boxes? The trivets? All could have been bought for less money, less energy, less time. All would have been boring too.

[bud--]

mike is right.

Da Vinci was wasting so much time painting he finally had to give up and do something useful. He became a productive member of society as a janitor.

[mike]

Yeah, as if Da Vinci made dated, crappy junk in the most inefficient way possible.

Who wants to pay $1000+ for a 70's looking lampshade, when you can get the same ugly lampshade for a fraction of the price?

[Ed Pawlowski]

Not me. But being able to make it is something you will never know about. Monetary value is not a consideration for the maker.

[wasyliw]

Does he not know that he can go to walmart and pay 99cents for a shade that was built by Malaysian orphans in a sweat shop from materials acquired from a toxic borrow pit in Mongolia!

Instead he took this perfectly good piece of wood that could have rotted away in a forest!