Handmade tiffany lamp

You may be interested in the site linked below. The site contains photos and details about Helen Bray's creation of a large handmade tiffany lamp.

- 2,047 pieces of hand cut glass; - 6 kg (13 pounds) of lead solder; - Hundreds of hours of work over 5 years.

handmadetiffany.com

In the interest of full disclosure, we host the site for Helen and I took the photos.

Thanks,

Graham

Reply to
Graham Miln
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I was very impressed with this site, so I saved it to look at again, it is very well done & put together, and the lady does very good work. Thank you for sharing with us

Reply to
racing John

I just wonder why it took 5 years to build this lamp? I had a customer build one in about a month. Same lamp.

Reply to
Chemo the Clown

I just wonder why it took 5 years to build this lamp? I had a customer build one in about a month. Same lamp.

Maybe they were buying supplies from some asshole in British Columbia and it took that long to get the shipment? Lost at sea with those cases of glass bound for Finland.

Reply to
Moonraker

Andy, Helen's Tiffany lamp has been a part time project and every piece glass was cut and ground by hand.

I have heard of another similar project, but the creators had the glass pieces laser cut, and so ensured accuracy and speed.

Reply to
Graham Miln

Graham, I had a client, who really likes lamps, built one in 60 days for his daughter, hand cut and ground, then had to turn around and build one for daughter number 2, (because the 1st once came out so nice!), the second one took a little less, but only because it was spring and nothing stops this guy from hitting the golf course 3 times a week. Easily doable, and all hand done, no lasers or water jets.

He has since switched to the Odyssey mold system and is still making lamps for relatives, which he is running out of. Relatives, not lamps.

Reply to
Javahut

Still...that's like only cutting a couple of pieces per day. (shrug)

Reply to
Chemo the Clown

Yeah...you do that.

Reply to
Chemo the Clown

Since Brady has his head up his ass, he'll be looking into "something", for sure.

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Moonraker

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