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Japanese Pendant Lights

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Japanese Pendant Lights This is one of the projects I work on while waiting for an oil stain to dry on cabinets or other items I build.
I mix my own stains from artis oil and the stain can take up to 2 weeks to dry.
I drew this Japanese pine from photos I found on the Internet.
I wanted to replace some old glass shades in the ceiling of a hallway in our home. I looked on the web and found some nice pendants in the A & C style made from stainded glass and QSWO. They cost over $1250.00 each.
So I decieded to make my own from mahogany.I bought the Mahogany from Austin Hardwoods & Hardware in So. Ca. and Glued two 6” wide pieces to geather
and cut them down to 9 x 12 pieces and resawed them to a 3/8” thickness on the band saw.
I brought the drawing and wood to a local CNC shop and “Little Black Duck” was right. They sent me home and ask me to black out all the negative spaces that were to be cut out.I made a copy and worked on it for an hour with a fine tip gel pen they gave me.
Here's the 9 x 12 after it was cut out on the CNC Laser. Jeff told me they couldn't cut pieces as small as 9 x 6” that's why they had to be glued togeather.I told them if they would take photos of the Laser cutting the Mahogay I would mention their company name but they forgot.Here I'm heating the glue with a heat gun to seperate the pieces.The burnt black inside parts from the Laser adds depth to the lights.
I built this miter cutting sled to accurately cut the 45's on the pieces.
You can see a hole at the bottom rear so the cut pieces can exit. Don't stand behind it.
Gluing up the sides.

Cutting four pieces to fit inside the top of the pendants
Rubber bands worked great holding the pieces together until the glue dried.After the glue dried I put the small piece inside the top and drilled holes for the screws.
Attaching the insert.

Fitting the porcelain socket.
After sanding the heads of the SS screws I painted them to match the wood.

Rounding off the top of the Cord Grip/Strain Relief nut I made. It has a 1/4 SS set screw that clamps it to the cord.

I started painting poly wipe on in the cut out parts by hand. To much work. I finished the job with spray on poly.

Gluing a Bottom ledge for the glass
I have this sliding fence jig to cut angles on parts. Here I'm making a 15 angle for the top of the light.

I bought these 12x12 stained glass pieces at Hobby Lobby.
Putting dabs of clear silicone to hold the glass in place.
Clamping the glass in place.
Attaching the wires.The photo set up. The background is a reproduction of a William Morris fabric. It's call Black Thorne 1883 that I bought on Etsy from a seller called Rocking Robbins.
The water color is a painting I did from a book I have on Japanese wood cuts. It's 16 H x 12 W.
It was made in 1770 by artist Koryusai.It's titled Girls Feeding Carp.Thanks for visiting!



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