Friday, November 16, 2018

Past halfway


©2018 Barry Smith - Looking down on a dusty Edison light globe
I got a solid amount of time in the garage-studio today. This enabled me to finish off three more Artisan Lamps that I got started yesterday afternoon. That makes six now - so I'm over halfway to my goal of ten.

I'm quite liking this series - most tend to be a little smaller and have a good quirk factor.

A couple of photos of the selected pieces for two of the lamps before grinding and polishing etc.


©2018 Barry Smith
©2018 Barry Smith
Photos of the assembled and wired lamps

©2018 Barry Smith - Artisan Lamp made from vintage hand wood drill and cast iron cog for the base  and painted with steel grey hammered metal pain
©2018 Barry Smith
©2018 Barry Smith - Artisan Lamp made from industrial weaving shuttle and brass found objects.
©2018 Barry Smith - The shuttle had a hinged section so the lamp arm can be moved to different angles
©2018 Barry Smith
©2018 Barry Smith - Wild little Artisan Lamp made from emersion heater and various capper and brass plumbing  bits - this lamp took quite a lot of drilling to enable solid assembly
©2018 Barry Smith
good feeling to have got that far at the end of the day. Though I could not leave the garage-studio before giving it a though vacuum and putting tools away - the place was a mess - need a clean space to get moving on the next four lamps.

3 comments:

  1. Gosh your shuttle lamp with the hinged arm is a beauty and have never seen an Edison light bulb, must be very old... even older than me!

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  2. There are certain bits that resonate when you make your artisan lamps ... this time around it was/is the shuttle, which matches a couple in our "pantry"

    Love how your shuttle evokes a sailing vessel ...

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  3. Good heavens, these are wonderful artistic/artisan lamps!!

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