Scrap Wood Sconces

Back in the uncivilized and barbaric years of 2013-2014, when I was still green in the ways of woodworking and crafts, I built a pair of wall sconces for Handan. She had just discovered the awesome power of decoupage and had unleashed her mighty new talents on some hapless battery-operated candles. (aff link) The candles, now plastered with ancient maps of wildly erroneous shorelines, required suitable perches for their newly-elevated status.

I descended into my wood shop - at the time no more than a few stone tools, some flaked obsidian and a bowl of fire - and emerged with these (okay, these are two pictures of the same sconce, but I built two. Really.)





For the first new pair, I found some pallet scraps and decided a propane torch would be a good starting point.





The boards looked like this after I burned them and brushed them with a vinegar/steel wool/black tea concoction.





After an hour, they looked like this.





I stenciled on the letter "N"





And sealed the deal with some polyurethane.





Then Handan made it beautiful with jute and Christmas decorations.

















For the second pair, I used some poplar scraps. I routed the edges with an ogee bit.





I made some semi-circles from some other scraps, then marked the centers so I could drill, glue and screw.





A little white paint to clean things up a bit.





Then Handan worked some more magic with birds nests and decoupaged votive candles.











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--Posted by Greg
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