{"id":10272,"date":"2011-10-26T08:43:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T13:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10272"},"modified":"2011-10-26T08:43:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T13:43:51","slug":"book-report-28-table-lamp-projects-by-h-a-menke-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/book-report-28-table-lamp-projects-by-h-a-menke-1953\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>28 Table Lamp Projects<\/i> by H.A. Menke (1953)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/28tablelampprojects.jpg\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\">You can easily tell from the title what this book is: it is 28 projects for making table lamps out of wood and lamp kits.  It&#8217;s a 1950s book, aimed for the high school shop market I think (at least, this particular book came from a high school library).  It talks about the different styles within the book, from contemporary to more traditional.  Strangely, sixty years later, even the &#8220;contemporary&#8221; styles are traditional.  I mean, how many lamps made of wood have you seen recently?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve rewired some lamps, so I am familiar with that part of the process and am unafraid of it.  This book gave me some ideas and inspiration, distantly, of how I could make a lamp out of a couple pieces of wood and a band saw.  A number of the pieces, though, require a wood lathe, and I don&#8217;t have one of those yet, and if I got one, one would have to wonder how long it would sit in its box untouched (my new table saw is at 10 months).<\/p>\n<p>A worthwhile browse.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B000NTEU36&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can easily tell from the title what this book is: it is 28 projects for making table lamps out of wood and lamp kits. It&#8217;s a 1950s book, aimed for the high school shop market I think (at least, this particular book came from a high school library). It talks about the different styles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10274,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272\/revisions\/10274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}