Marqueterie et Tiffany

Le Galludec Marquetrie : La Pyramide (1)

Le prochain objet, la pyramide me permettra de travailler le bois d’abord pour fabriquer une pyramide sur laquelle je vais pouvoir poser ma marqueterie. Voici un exemple trouvé sur l’internet:

Je vais partir sur une pyramide de 154mm de large et de 154 mm de haut, comme on constate, les deux angles nécessaires pour la construction sont montrés ci-dessous.

Pour du bois de 12mm d’épaisseur alors, la base, W1 est alors de 127mm

La hauteur des cotées S1 est de 172mm

Si je fabrique les parois á partir d’un section de bois de 45*12 et je fabrique la forme triangulaire, les longueurs à assembler sont données ci-dessous.

Voici la base avec ses cotés usinés à 63,4 degrés avec la scie circulaire.

Fiona’s Tulip Lamp (Off the Mould)

The bottom ring has been delivered and I have been able to de-mould the lamp and to temporarily place it on an existing base to get an idea of the effect.

The existing base is deeper than this lamp so the photos are taken from above so that the bare bulbs are not visible.

One week later, inside soldered, outside finish soldered, and the whole thing then waxed with a sheet of black card to hide the bulbs. Have decided to order a 4 inch brass ring for the mounting and then will buy the lamp base.

Fiona’s Tulip Lamp (All glass pieces on the mould )

There we go, all parts on the mould and the upper ring integrated, just waiting for the lower ring, otherwise I’ll just use some braid.

Can’t wait to see the finished lamp, I’m pretty sure the flowers work.

Le Galludec Marquetrie : L’oiseau (4)

À la fin de l’année scolaire je n’avais pas encore terminé l’oiseau, mais voici le travail, à reprendre en septembre.

Encore deux ou trois semaines de travail

Fiona’s Tulip Lamp (On the Mould )

What with the holidays on such it’s been a while since I’ve updated on this project. So, here without upper and lower rings and without cleaning, here is the lamp tacked together on the mould.

Just need to fit the rings, demould, solder the inside, finish solder the outside, clean, apply a patina to the solder and, of course to mount the lamp.

Can’t wait to see the finished lamp, I’m pretty sure the flowers work.

The Lantern finished (6)

The lantern assembled onto the base, and made of veneer coated chipboard is at last finished.

Not really sure that the glass design is really exciting, but the aim was to try out the manufacture and discover the difficulties before deciding if it was worth working on a design.

Major lesson ( not a surprise) to get perfectly adjusted base and lamp it is necessary to manufacture a tool.

The Lantern (5)

The lantern backlit with a portable workshop lamp

Just to get an idea

The Lantern (4)

With a white glue interface I firstly coated the top and bottom of the chipboard with a beech veneer and put in under a press. I then removed the excess using a wood chisel before once again applying a white glue and ironing on the beech veneer edges and trimming with a scalpel.

So here I have just fitted up the glass work with the base. Next steps will be to finish the base, to finish solder the glass work edges, to insert the electrical elements and to fix the glass to the base.

It’s starting to come together, remaining question is should I cut out the small cracked area and insert a small glass frame.

Copper crown received

After many weeks waiting my copper plated crown for the Wisteria lamp has finally been delivered.

The crown will eventually have a verdigris patinated finish and the branches will be made of a tin coated braid ready for soldering.

The Lantern (3)

As the aim is to make this relatively cheap, the base will be made of 2 chip boards, glued together to give the desired thickness.

And in order to add value to the lantern by the wood, I’ve chosen a lighter wood for the veneer, ash, with the example on the left moistened to represent the final colour.