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As the Wood Turns: Watch Soren Berger Make a Wooden Lampshade
For lampshades you can achieve the same effect using veneers made from planks instead hollowing out a whole stump.
Carpenters like the Shakers or Japanese woodworkers would never waste so much, it's not a tree hugger thing, it's an appreciation of that which you make your livelihood from.
Are you kidding me? This is a GROSS misuse of material and a horrible production method. "beautiful though it may be". It's ugly, and not just because it's wasteful.
I have seen bamboo strips being pasted together to yield a similar result. Bamboo grows very fast but why cut a tree.
I am worried about how the ring would fair in the long term. I have a great table, but it wasn't kiln dried, and it develops new cracks every winter. That log looks pretty green, and now it's being exposed to the heat of a light bulb. I wonder how many are lost to checking...
As far as wood waste goes, I am reminded of this classic Simpsons moment...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pkHmVGjpvc&feature=player_detailpage#t=9s
Also, kudos on the video pace while leaving the sound intact.
Yeah there would be a seam. But I'd rather have 10 lampshades with a small seam than one seamless lampshade. Maybe that's just me.