Using a newish but useless wheel (well, the hub section) that has sat in my garage for a couple of years, I decided I would make a lamp. Bought a lamp lead with fittings for £7 and a fancy bulb for £4.50 and after a bit of sawing and chopping, this was the result

And one more

Brilliant! Might steal that idea

Looks great. I hope that smoothing plane has its blade retracted!

thenorthwind wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 5:15 pm Brilliant! Might steal that idea

I copied this from an instagram post I saw a while back They used a suitcase for the base but I went with a block of wood

ssnowman wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 5:23 pm Looks great. I hope that smoothing plane has its blade retracted!

Someone else said that, had to double check but yeah, it’s retracted. Not that it worked in the first place…

Much much better than your painting efforts

Like that a lot

Lazarus wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 8:03 pm Much much better than your painting efforts

Like that a lot

Might put the pictures in a modern art gallery, they’ll go down a storm!