My friend Moira and I have just made ourselves a couple of lamps. We love the results but we don’t think it’s the start of a whole new craft career.
From this:
To this:
… in just a few complicated steps.
Posts Tagged ‘sandpaper’
Hey, we made lamps! Part 1: the lamp bases
Posted in Other interesting things, tagged Danish oil, lamp, lamp base, light fitting, sanding, sandpaper, vertical drill press on 27/12/2014| 2 Comments »
Bench seat done. Tick another one off the list
Posted in Furniture, tagged beeswax, bench seat, Danish oil, Inverloch, orbital sander, restore, sandpaper, second-hand on 09/03/2013| Leave a Comment »
It’s been a nice change working on a piece of furniture that didn’t need pulling apart and rebuilding. The bench seat I bought in Inverloch just needed sanding, oiling and waxing. Although, really, a lot of sanding, followed by a sore neck and sore shoulders.
The seat was superficially weathered but it was really sturdy. It had come from a deceased estate down Inverloch way and, given that there were a number of homemade pieces among the contents, the owner must have been into making furniture out of second-hand timbers.
The timber’s definitely blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon) – the colour and the grain are wonderful. (Here’s some info on blackwood on the Victorian Department of Primary Industries website.)
Then …
… and now
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Third bit from the right 