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Has anyone seen or heard of lamp/ceiling light shades being made from
wood? I'm thinking it should be relatively simple to make shades from
veneer-thickness woods which would provide interesting contrasts/
compliments to existing room decors. I'm going to have to do some
opacity testing on veneers to see if there is any translucency through
different woods. Or whether, in fact, that even matters very much.
Probably shouldn't be that difficult to get frames & fixings either.
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-I don't have a link handy, but there was a FWW article years ago and
several other places I've seen them as well. One that I liked that I recall from the old FWW article used red oak
sliced then across grain (end grain showing) so the open porosity was
utilized... -Haven't tried that, but here's a Humvee made out of balsa http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2007-09-11-lighter-humvees_N.htm
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