This was a project I attempted without a commercial lamp shade mold. Instead, I took an old paper shade, filled it with styrofoam from a spray can, and build the shade on that. I learned alot from this project, like next time to use a commercial mold. And also, use smaller feather pieces so they will lay flatter to the mold. This version was 366 pieces.
I got the idea from a lamp I saw on the internet, but this design is my own.
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- Getting started on the grind.
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- grinding continues – the orange and yellow eye rings are tedious.
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- finished grinding (24 feathers, 30 eyes)
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- washing the pieces (468 in total)
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- washing and sorting the groups. Each feather and eye into its own envelope.
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- gluing the ones that broke (maybe 4 ot them)
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- 24 feathers, 24 envelopes each with an eye (some have 2 eyes)
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- foiling (a very relaxing task)
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- starting the assembly with push pins on the styrofoam mold
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- 1/4 of the way around
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- 3/4 of the way around
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- almost done fitting the pieces onto the mold
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- such concentration – I’m prpbably wondering what’s for lunch!
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- all the feathers are fitted onto the mold – next the eyes (no photo of that)
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- soldering on home-made mold
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- finished soldering
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- patina applied
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