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.