Diy Tapered-X Lamp
So my floor started months agone when I saw this lamp at World Market. I absolutely loved how "architectural" it looked as well as figured it couldn't hold out also difficult to laid myself. Since I was at it, I mightiness equally good teach inward a fiddling larger to gibe my infinite better.
Well, yeah... I was totally wrong. This light was a flake of a challenge. I am absolutely thrilled amongst the results, as well as ended upward spending means less than I would convey to purchase one, but at that spot was a lot of lawsuit as well as mistake amongst this build.
I intend I've come upward up amongst the easiest means to laid this tapered X light yourself. In total disclosure, it's in all probability non the most "woodworker-y" means to produce it, but the procedure worked good for me.
- *miter saw
- *table saw
- *oscillating multi-tool
or small-scale mitt saw
- *pneumatic brad nailer
- *1" goal nails
- *speed square
- *wood glue
- *lamp kit
- (1) 4' - 1 x 8 your selection of hardwood (I used poplar)
- (1) 15" scrap 1 x 2 or 2 x 2
- 3" slice of 3/4" PVC pipe
*I recommend using a hardwood for this project. The pieces have relatively small contact surface, thus you lot really need the extra forcefulness that you lot don't teach amongst pine.
Cut List:
- (1) 7 1/4" x vii 1/4" foursquare - cutting at a five grade angle, sloping in
- (1) 5" x 5" foursquare - cutting at a five grade angle, sloping in
- (8) 3/4" x 1/2" strips, ripped from remaining board
The commencement stair is to cutting the travel past times as well as bottom plates. I started past times commencement cutting the 5" as well as vii 1/4" squares downwards to size. Then, I adjusted the blade on my miter saw to a five grade bevel.
I lined upward the blade on each edge, as well as cutting a taper.
I constitute the middle of each foursquare as well as pre-drilled a small-scale hole. Using a dyad 2" screws, I attached the scrap 15" 2 x 2 betwixt both squares, tapered faces pointed up.
Next, I took i of the 1/2" thick strips. Starting from the travel past times left corner, to the bottom right, trouble upward the center-most corners amongst the exterior of the strip. The strip should hang over the squares past times a few inches.
I attached strips on 2 contrary sides using woods gum as well as 1" goal nails. Once the gum was fully dried, I removed the scrap 2 x 2.
Next, I needed to cutting the strips even out to the travel past times as well as bottom. I constitute the fastest as well as easiest means was to role a even out trim attachment on my oscillating, multi-tool. They are handy fiddling gadgets. Dremel as well as Rockwell Tools both brand a skilful one. If you lot don't convey a multi-tool, you lot could role a small-scale mitt saw instead.
Once the commencement 2 strips were cutting flush, I add together the other pair, as well as trimmed the even out equally well. I drew a diagonal trouble from contrary points on the travel past times block, extending past times the corners, onto the strips. Then, using my multi-tool, I cutting take down, notching the corner.
Each corner looked similar this.
I flipped the light construction over as well as trimmed the bottom ends of the strips the same way.
Time for the actually tricky part. The cross pieces. I spent hours as well as wasted A LOT of material, trying to figure a means to cutting the intersecting corners on my miter saw. I tried jigs as well as dissimilar chemical compound miter cuts, but could never teach close. If whatever of you lot reading this are woodworking geniuses as well as tin say me how to teach this cut, delight share!
I decided to depict the cutting I needed on an actual strip of woods thus I could visualize it. Looking at it closely, I figured the easiest means to teach a precise cutting would hold out to cutting it past times hand.
So that's precisely what I did as well as it worked out real well! This would also hold out a nifty task for a multi-tool.
The cross pieces create an "X", coming together at a 52 grade angle. To create the two, contrary sides of the "X", I commencement mitt notched the needed corner, equally seen above. Then, turning the notched corner human face upward down, measured vii 1/4" for the shorter pieces, as well as 11" for the longer. This gave me the long signal of my mitered cut. I just adjusted the scrap on my miter saw, as well as cutting in.
Starting the shorter, travel past times cross piece, I allowed it to overhang almost 1/2", as well as then attached it amongst gum as well as nails. The travel past times corner first.
Then the middle.
I flipped the light upside downwards as well as repeated the same steps to attach the longer cross piece. Once the gum was fully dried, I trimmed the excess even out equally well.
After closed to woods filler as well as a skilful sanding, the construction was complete. Time to plough it into a lamp. I constitute this *lamp kit
on Amazon for $9.64. It includes almost everything I needed, including the harp to attach the shade.
on Amazon for $9.64. It includes almost everything I needed, including the harp to attach the shade. 
The other pieces I needed, I was able to detect at my local True Value for a dyad bucks. I believe Ace Hardware also sells private light parts.
I was making 2 lamps at the same time, but for a unmarried lamp, you lot demand i nipple reducer (yes, I realize how bad that sounds), as well as one, 4" nipple.
Using the same, middle hole equally before, I re-drilled the hole inward the travel past times plate large plenty to insert a reducer. I coated the exterior threads inward *epoxy
as well as twisted it into place.
While the epoxy cured, I cutting a 3" long slice of PVC pipage as well as spray painted it black.
To get together the lamp, I commencement pushed the cord though the hole, from the bottom side of the travel past times plate. Then, I threaded the cord through the nipple as well as screwed the nipple into the reducer. Next, I slid the PVC sleeve over the nipple.
Jeez, it's difficult to utter almost light edifice without blushing.
From at that spot on, you lot tin just follow the instructions on the dorsum of the light kit packet equally normal. I constitute a large white shade at Target, as well as voila! I had me a custom, hardwood lamp.
I dearest how it changes from dissimilar angles.
This i was tricky to build. Don't vanquish yourself upward if your joints aren't perfect. I hope you, mine were not. That's were the wonderful affair called woods filler comes in. Once my joints are filled as well as sanded, you'd never know how choppy as well as uneven they were.
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