“Hope”
My friend and business associate Randy S. commissioned this lamp, affectionately named Hope, as a companion to our beautiful wood lamp Waves. Randy selected the wood for Hope from several photographs I sent him in October 2015, seen here from three different views.
Hyrum (15) and I worked slowly over the next year and a half to transform this rough piece of wood into the beautiful lamp featured above. The first step was, as always, to clean and smooth the wood. Next we drilled the small surface that would support the bulb socket, stained the wood with several coats of dark Provincial stain, and inserted the nipple pipe and socket.
Preparing the table-top base came next.
We mounted the lamp wood onto the base with wood glue and several three-inch screws, wired the lamp, varnished the base and lamp with gloss polyurethane, and caulked around the lamp base. We routed the base bottom to house the lamp chord.
The final step was to suspend the lamp upside down between two padded chairs and attach black felt to the bottom of the base.
Randy took the lamp to his home office to join Waves after nearly two years. He said it was worth the wait.
(Purchase Price: $500.)
Baker Brothers Lamps was founded to help my sons earn money for the 2013 and 2017 National Boy Scout Jamborees and to pay for their high school athletic activities and university studies. It has been so fun for me to work on this hobby with my sons, transforming rough wood into beautiful lamps.
Rabbit Lane 
That’s awesome!!!
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Wonderful, well crafted and beautiful lamps! Hope is a lovely name too.
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Thank you! Making these lamps together has been a meaningful and important father-son experience.
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Great to know of the special bonding through working on this craft… so lovely! 🙂
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I love the colour of the lamp – it is so dramatic and yet simple!
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Thank you! You are so kind to comment. I’ve been a little out of blogging circulation. A little overwhelmed with life! Good to hear from you, and I hope things are going well for you.
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Me too – but it is good to come back to blogging when things quieten down again. 🙂
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Hi! I have been away from home for weeks attending the national boy scout jamboree, and am just getting back into the groove. Hope you are well. Thanks, as always, for reading.
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