Artist Billy Hall uses a lathe to sculpt whole wood blocks thin enough to be used as lampshades. The shades are usually between 1/32 and 3/32 of an inch thick and coated with epoxy. Pictured above is “Luna”, a globular design made from Southern Yellow Pine.
Skipweasel
Good stuff, but hard to get it seasoned just right so it doesn’t have glaring splits in it shortly after.
I’d be tempted to add a layer of very fine glass fiber tissue to the epoxy inside. You’d never see it, but it’d hold the whole thing together better in the fluctuating environment of a lampshade.
Scooter
I own a lathe and do some home projects on it, i couldn’t imagine getting the wood that thin. I wonder what the process is.
Foreigner1
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If you use epoxy on wood that thin, it gets impregnated through and through. And then it is the woodfabric with the epoxy itself that gives enough support and crosslinking within the material. One only has to use an extra layer of glasfiber if the wood cannot get impregnated inside-out.
Foreigner1
What kind of proportions did you use when you made your epoxy resin? How much hardener? How much filler? How much dilutant?
deadant26
http://www.woodshades.com/ExamplesLampPictsv3.html
My Friend from the Balsams resort in Dixville NH, Peter Bloch has been doing this for years. Check his stuff out at woodshades.com
Ben Webster
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