Contest

[Rusty Nesmith]

Our club has a contest every year called chapter challenge. The person that wins gets to pick for next year. My good friend won last year and picked a lamp for this year. I am trying to really step my game up from last year still being a fairly new turner, three years. The lamp can be any size and emit light, electric, battery, oil etc. this will be my entry. It is not finished yet but getting close. I have until the second Saturday in February.

 

[Lou Jacobs]

That’s awesome Randy! The shade is quite striking. When I saw the first picture in bright light I wondered how you were planning on turning it. Which the room light off and the lamp on it’s wonderful!

 

[Darryl Fective]

Very cool!

 

[Clifton C]

Innovative...
Way to think outside the box.
I think Darryl may be right

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

Looks like the winner to me also

 

[Alan Weinberg]

You are no beginner! Awesome.

 

[Mike Drake]

In all honesty I looked at the first photo and thought, ehh… then I saw the next two and thought WOW. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Gabriel Hoff]

Really cool. Love the basket illusion base!

 

[Curt Fuller]

That's pretty cool!

 

[Randy Anderson]

That's great. Should be a winner. Hope your're able to show it with the lights low to get the full effect.

 

[Rusty Nesmith]

That's great. Should be a winner. Hope your're able to show it with the lights low to get the full effect.

The only problem with that is a lot of windows in the room. I will have it lit up and am thinking of putting a couple of pictures with it of it lit up in the dark.

 

[Rusty Nesmith]

Really cool. Love the basket illusion base!

I copied it from somebody that posted in the Thanksgiving thread. I thought it was so nice I wanted to use it. I hope he doesn’t care.

 

[Larry Mercier]

WOW!

 

[Pat Wisniewski]

Beautifully executed! Perhaps you could exhibit it ‘inside’ a large cardboard box which you first paint the interior matte black and only leave the front open? It is really striking in the dark.

 

[Darryl Fective]

So how did you make the shade? Is it a stack of rings that are scalloped inside and out? It's a very cool light pattern.

 

[Rusty Nesmith]

So how did you make the shade? Is it a stack of rings that are scalloped inside and out? It's a very cool light pattern.

Yes. It is actually a pattern for a scrollsaw bowl.

 

[Russ Braun]

Outstanding lamp Rusty! Way to get out of the box!!

 

[Daniel Henry]

In all honesty I looked at the first photo and thought, ehh… then I saw the next two and thought WOW. Thanks for sharing.

I must confess, I had the exact same reaction. It is very impressive!

 

[Dean Center]

The only problem with that is a lot of windows in the room. I will have it lit up and am thinking of putting a couple of pictures with it of it lit up in the dark.

Maybe a dark background or screen, perhaps black felt, without Elvis. (though in Parkersberg Elvis might add points) A trifold of cardboard is a common display form, light and easy to carry, easy to set up, and would block out the light from windows behind the piece.

 

[Rusty Nesmith]

Maybe a dark background or screen, perhaps black felt, without Elvis. (though in Parkersberg Elvis might add points) A trifold of cardboard is a common display form, light and easy to carry, easy to set up, and would block out the light from windows behind the piece.

Yes that’s a great idea. Somebody mentioned earlier cardboard. That made me think of the trifold thing and put something on top to block as much as possible. I also forgot to add that the base is around 10”” in diameter, shade around 14” in diameter and 24” tall.

 

[Rusty Nesmith]

 

[Vincent Vogel]

Congratulations Rusty, Very nice.

 

[Tom Gall]

Looks great, Rusty. Well deserved award/

 

[Peter White]

Great result for a nice looking lamp.

 

[Alan Weinberg]

great work, Rusty.

 

[hockenbery]

Congrats

 

[Darryl Fective]

Way to go! Congrats!