Advent Candle Stand or Floor Lamp
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My wife asked me to come up with a design for an Advent candle stand so I doodled up this.
It's based on a table lamp I built a few years ago. I figured if I wind up building it, I'll make two and make the other one a floor lamp. the only difference is the length of the cross arms at the top.
The tapered vertical pieces are cut with a dovetail cutter so they fit together leaving a space up the center for a power cord. It's a little fiddly to get the cutter set exactly right but once it is, the pieces are easily cut--they're identical--and easy to assemble.
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Nice, Dave. Might you want more of a drip catcher on the arms? We used to have the candles on the table, with a wreath. This was one of my favorite traditions as a child. Thinking back it seems it must been picked up from the Menorah tradition.
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Thank you. I think the candles will be oil-filled so they shouldn't drip. If they aren't going to use oil-filled candles I'll probably make some drip catchers out of brass.
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Dave,
Nice looking piece, but your method for joining the vertical pieces has me puzzled. How about adding another view to show the joinery?
Best,
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Hi David,
Thank you.
I don't have the model at my disposal at the moment so I made a quick sketch showing the joint.
You cut this with a dovetail cutter in the router table. Each piece gets a pass with the edge of the board against the fence and then with a face. all four pieces are identical. When I made the table lamp I spent quite a bit of time making test cuts. With SketchUp, it's dead easy by using copies of a component arrayed around the center.
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Very clever, as always.
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I wish it was my idea. It is pretty cool. Much like the birdsmouth method used to make hollow masts and spars for sailboats.
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Here's the floor lamp with a mica shade. I added a couple of Morris chairs and Gregory Paolini's Limbert-style coffee table for scale.
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Very nice Dave. I've always like the Arts and Craft furniture.
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Thank you, Walt. Now I just have to get the mica and get moving on it. If I'm going to make one I might as well do two and the shades should come first.
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FWIW, I've simplified it to use simple rabbets for joining the vertical pieces. It should be less fussy to cut those joints.
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