How to Make a Wooden Table Lamp - Attaching the top cap of a table lamp
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Alright then, you might remember that earlier we cut a square piece that's the same size
as the outside of this shaft here and we drilled a hole right in the middle of it. The same
size hole that we drilled in the base we drilled in the center. Now this one does have to be
in the center, because this is where all your lamp parts and the socket and the shade and
everything is going to come in. If this is not in the center you're lamp is going to
look weird. So I drilled that and I also cut some trim the same way we cut all this other
trim but this is wider. This trim is cut on edge and the effect of that is that it comes
a little farther out and completes the trim just like it is down here. You can make this
trim as wide as you want. You might want to make it a little thinner than this. This piece
right here, the center piece is going to have four smooth edges. So I've just taken the
construction adhesive and stuck my trim on it and that'll go on the top there but you
leave this piece free until you've run the wire up through, attached all your lamp hardware
to this and then you set the whole thing back down on there and attach it with four nails.
Then the next step is, brush it off a little bit and wax it and buff it.
