Silver maple lamp

[littleTapper]

Had this idea in my head and finally made it happen. The power company had to take out a big silver maple at the farm, so I grabbed a bit of it and worked it into a lamp. Granted it wasn't a sugar maple, but it'll work. Took a pair of buckets - one for the shade and another to hang on a spile. Drilled the tree out and ran bicycle cable housing through it to the spile and attached a glass droplet (bead) to 25# monofilament run through the housing for the pull chain to turn it on/off. Neat to have what was in my head work out...and it fills a functional need of a lamp on that end of the sofa.

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[tcross]

that's really cool! well done!

[Jcrawfo]

Really cool! Nice job

[SDdave]

That's awesome. Love to copy it, but I think the wife would say it doesn't meet the "décor criteria".

SDdave

[dcast99]

I think of Maple every night. Just need to make the free standing one now. The power cord is fished thru the tap and tubing.15170

[BAP]

Very nice job. I like it.

[littleTapper]

I think of Maple every night. Just need to make the free standing one now. The power cord is fished thru the tap and tubing.15170
That's cool!

Thanks everyone!

[mike103]

Ditto what SDDave said

[Chickenman]

AWESOME lamp. Had to show to my wife and daughter. They agreed, just awesome.

[littleTapper]

AWESOME lamp. Had to show to my wife and daughter. They agreed, just awesome.

Thanks!

I encourage anyone and everyone to copy the idea and share the result. Who cares what the wives may say! I'm lucky, my wife loved the idea from the start. She made a birch lamp many years ago as a kid and we still use it. Since then we've made a few more of those as well. Next up is some end tables from slabs of a big elm...

[RyanMay]

It looks great. I like the idea of the Birch lamp.

[timmie]

It looks good, I have never really considered making something on my own. When I was having my home renovation, I selected one of the designs that I saw from a blog ( http://www.surplusfurniture.com/blog/lamp-decor/ ). I once saw a lamp that was made out a bathroom mirror. The socket was wired and screwed on the adapter nut. The cord was then threaded through the back of the hardware and wired to the plug.

[Tweegs]

I like it!

Just one question: How are you going to keep the bark from shedding?

Reason I ask is I made a prop for our farmer’s market table.
Hollow log that I rigged with a water bottle and a spile, water drips out of the spile.
Works great, but I’m having an awful time with the bark falling off. Looking for a solution.