Making wire cavity and base cap

There are a few features in the lamp making that I recently completed. One being, I added foam feel to reduce the vibration on the desk when the base is spun. This worked very well.

I also cut out a cap, would be placed over the cavity in the base when the transformer is added.

I purchase some Redwood veneer from a specialty hardware store and I am going to use this to veneer all the ply wood in the lamp. I thought the combination of redwood and concrete would give a better contrast.

I simply cut the veneer to the size i needed and used PVA glue to glue to the plywood base cap.

This was the reason of embedding wall p[lugs into the concrete base when casting. This allowed for the cab to be drilled in and secured. 

I then used an engraving tool on a Dremel so I could route out a cavity where the wiring would go as this would be covered up by the Redwood veneer.