Hand carved Yew Lamp

[silky fox]

This has been my work in progress and it,s almost complete. Whilst walking in the pennines i noticed a small Yew tree stump in the ground..Yew trees are my favourite and i like to carve using them. It took quite a while to "Waggle" it free from the ground as i had no tools with me..took it home,cut the root off and placed the log between my feet...have no carving equiptment except for one chisel...took about 15 hours to get to this stage...finnished it with 3 different types of sandpaper and some melted Beeswax....i love it. it has a 15 watt lightbulb in it and a £1.50 lampshade from Oxfam.

[Treemoose]

That's pretty cool nice one

[David Humphries]

like it a lot

 

does the flex go through the whole piece ?

 

 

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[silky fox]

Yes....i used a hand drill will a long bit...went in at an angle half way avoiding the hole and then joined it from the top.

[David Humphries]

Have you got any shots of what it was like when you came across it ?

 

 

 

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[silky fox]

Unfortunatley not...it was a Dark stormy night and the stump was perched on a ravine overlooking a Quarry...it was about three foot high and had begun to rot...

[David Humphries]

Unfortunatley not...it was a Dark stormy night and the stump was perched on a ravine overlooking a Quarry......

 

 

That's absolutely no excuse

 

 

 

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[silky fox]

[geoff]

Nice lamp,that should look goog in a dim room with the light above it,David is right though,no excuses!

[tree monkey]

Unfortunatley not...it was a Dark stormy night and the stump was perched on a ravine overlooking a Quarry...it was about three foot high and had begun to rot...

 

sounds like the beginning of a horror story