Almost done with the first one...

With a bit of drilling and dowel-cutting, I've somewhat securely connected all of the pieces together. I still need to sand a few areas and lock the lighting fixture within the base, but it's turning out well.

Here are a few pics of the lamp with the LED bulb on and all other lights off:

I'm not sure what kind of finish I want to put on it. I have a half pint of stain & polyurethane in "olde maple gloss." I'm thinking about applying it to the base, and the outside and edges of the curved pieces.

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