Line the pilot drill bit of the hole saw up with the mark the center punch made and slowly, steadily drill the hole. REMEMBER: NEVER wear gloves when drilling - even when only using a hand saw. Secure the hole saw into the drill's chuck and put on your safety glasses. This set up gives you something to put pressure against as you hold the object in place while drilling and the mat helps keep the object from spinning. Use clamps to secure the wood to the table. Place the grip mat down and secure the two pieces of wood in a 'V' shape in line with the table edge.
Use the center punch and hammer to mark the center on the wood. Fold the square from corner to corner both ways to mind the center point. Using this dimension, cut a square piece of paper that will fit as close to perfectly as possible inside the wooden lip on the surface to be drilled (like pictured). Measure one side of the square, in between the inside of the wooden side pieces. (Using just the ruler and pencil to draw right on the top wouldn't be accurate enough because of that ridge that's higher than the surface to be drilled on.) You'll need a ruler, scissors, pencil, and piece of paper to help you find the center point of the 'shade'.
#Lampshade for plug in hanging light how to
Next up is how to find the center, and drill a hole, in a square top wooden container: And given that the connecting threads of this one are plastic, I wouldn't recommend using any bulb other than a low energy LED or compact fluorescent. That's it for this one! So easy right? And you'll see that the results give you a lot of style bang for your effort buck. (Remove the center knot, don't leave it like picture above.) Use the small wire cutters to cut away the fiber and connecting threads inside the socket circle you drew on - leaving the threads sticking into the empty circle about 3/8". Use a thin marker or pen to trace the socket circle onto the basket.
You can use your ruler if you'd like to confirm that it's centered - by measuring from the edge of the socket threads to the edge of the bottom in all four directions (North, South, East, West, or every 90 degrees). Place the socket threads over the center mark (there usually is one) of the basket bottom. This one requires only hand tools, no power drill. We'll start with the easiest and most low tech one, the natural fiber basket. But don't worry, it's easy to achieve this in almost all shapes and materials of potential shades. If we aren't precise about the location of the hole, the shade will be off kilter/tilted. In order to transform a found object into a shade, we need to make a hole in the 'dead center' of it's top, large enough for the socket to go through.
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If you're making your own cord set, I recommend putting the line switch 2' from the plug – but of course feel free to put it wherever along the cord will be most convenient for you based on where it will be hanging. I show you how to wire your own cord sets in lessons 2-6 of my Lamps Class.
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