Baseball Lamp Pictures

[TimD]

Here's what it looks like with the shade on, the bulb in, 2 coats of stain and a couple of coats of tung oil.

[TimD]

I guess you can only attach 2 photos at a time, or at least that's all it will let me do. The first one shows the softball that I used versus a baseball because the bat is 3-1/2" in diameter on the big end. The second one shows the profile of the batting end with the shelf attached.

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

Tim I hope you don't mind I fliped your photo because I was getting a crick in my neck. I must say it came out welll. I know you said you fought the wood but in the long run are satisfied with the way it turned out and what would you use if you were to do another?? To me it looks great and I would not change anything. Where did you say this was going to reside???

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[William Young]

Tim;
I looked at that sideways picture and got a kink in my neck and it locked in that position. But no problem. I just turned my monitor on it's side and apart from having to read uphill instead of from left to right, all is well now.

All kidding aside , , , nice work on that lamp . I think it looks just great. The number of things that can be made on a lathe are endless.
W.Y.

[TimD]

Thanks guys. I resized the photos that my camera took and still the only way that I could get it to post was to flip it from the size requirements. It will probaly wind up residing with my 8 year old nephew. The next one that I do will be out of spruce pine. A friend told me that my problem with the pine from Austria was that my tools weren't sharp enough so when I let him shave the hair off his arm with a roughing gouge he assured me that it was "just right". It had the same result with just saw dust that looked like it came from sandpaper instead of shavings.
What little of that mess I had left from the lamp has been ripped into 3/4" squares and converted into a logcabin lamp. The little wooden shingles will go on that tomorrow if possible while I'm watching TV. Today I went to a town sponsered craft show/political event/ fund raiser for local volunteer fire dept. I did sell a few pens and pencils, key chains and grunt deer calls. I'm looking forward to the much bigger one the first weekend in June.

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

Tim

Thanks for showing and let us know how the craft show goes. While there pay attention to the other crafters and see if there are any other woodworkers and give us a report on what they were selling. Just curious as to what different crafters are doing around the world and what they are trying to sell. The shows I have been doing in the fall, I have had very limited competition. There are always those that make the little yard ornamates and an accasional turning piece but nothing close to what I do. Next year I will be entering some new shows so will have to see about them.

[TimD]

The only other woodcraft items that I saw were some wooden rifles that one guy was selling that shoot rubber bands. I didn't check the price or anything and only saw 2 sold all day. He was with a church group that was selling food and stuff trying to raise money for a new church. Man, they had a chicken on a stick for $5.00 that was well worth it, I know about that for sure.
I almost finished a log cabin lamp this afternoon. It won't have anything turned on it other than the piece of wood that will cover the threaded rod for the socket and shade. I've made several over the years and sold them so with the thing coming up in June I figured might as well. It's 7x9" with a door cutout and a window on each end then a front porch built on. The cabin is pine with white oak shingles on the porch and roof. I'll post a pic of that in a couple of day when it's finished.
Before I go to the thing in June I want a few of those made up, may even take a baseball lamp like the one that I made. Of course my big thing will still be my pens and for those I not only take some already assembled but also take quite a few barrels turned but not assembled, that way I can assemble them on the spot to whatever anyone wants. This elminates having to take a lathe & worry about the liablity of chips and dust flying around. Plus it would be hard to keep an eye on a pen display while running a lathe. Things could have a way of disappearing at an event like that.
I guess my most requested pen material yesterday was deer antler pens. I'm almost out of antlers now, maybe some of the people who have promised them will come through. Otherwise I may have to go to buying them.