Using AIBU for the second time!

These lampshades have gimbals included
www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?tag=gransnetforum-21&url=search-alias%3Dlighting&field-keywords=gimbal

I would send them back and get new ones with gimbal.

perhaps it's not the shades, it's the lamps.

Don't they usually come with their own gimbals?

Lots on eBay and elsewhere. Try googling “shade carrier”.

I was going to buy a shade from Wilko until I saw on the label that it needed a gimbal so I couldn’t be bothered, but they may sell them in there.

Blancal2 Your link has no relevance to the thread? Are you advertising?

Morning all, I am now thinking that I might return them, and just start again.

After all, it should be fairly easy to find 2 coolie shades, 1 x 16" diameter, and 1 x 14", shouldn't it?

Doesn't Amazon sell them separately ?

I have just got two large lampshades from the place you mentioned Phoenix . They came with gimbles, but one didn't sit right. The company sent another, free of charge and said just keep the other. Quite good service I thought

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Can you send it back?

If I did that, would I need a gimbal?

Sidetracking slightly, but did anyone see that programme on BBC1 this afternoon (I rarely watch daytime tv but today was an exception after a busy weekend). The presenters make something out of other people's junk.

The presenter found two of those huge glass bowls that we used to make indoor gardens in years ago and someone turned them into lamps and made snazzy shades for them. I think they sold for £525 for the two!

I'm sure we have one lurking behind the compost heap

Phoenix, is this the sort of thing you are looking for?
John Lewis sell them.

This is the bigger one:

www.amazon.co.uk/Oaks-Lighting-16-inch-Cotton-Coolie/dp/B00F13XRJW/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=16inch+black+coolie+shade&tag=gransnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1542059760&sr=8-1

Merlot, will have a go at posting a pic tomorrow, but basically they are just standard coolie shades but without the bit that you need to actually put them on a lamp!

Isn't the gimbal the hinged bit that you get on lampshades for table and standard lamps, so that you can tilt them to shine onto your book/knitting/wine glass?

I thought the g was like the one in gimme, not the j in Jimmy.

Can you post a pic of the lampshades, phoenix? Those frames look like you need to enrol on a lampshade making course.

Thank you all for the responses, appreciated as always. I could put up with being told on "that place" that the damn silly gimbals/gimbles/jimbls need to be ordered separately, but it would be quite nice to be given the opportunity to bloody order them!

Miffed of Shebbear.

phoenix, I sympathise. I know I know, we should support our shops and high street, those other places don't pay their taxes, work their employees into the ground and so on but- I've just ordered something on line. Emergency birthday gift. I just hope I don't fall foul of a similar disaster to yourself. If I do, I accept it will be entirely my own fault. Can you sort your difficulty?

Does the lampshade have the supporting structure in it already, wouldn't it collapse otherwise? Is it just the circular bit that holds the shade in place that's missing? You usually get two different sizes of them. I'm confused.

I have never heard of shades needing these extra fittings, seems like a marketing ploy to me. Return them and tell them where to put their jimbls! !

A sort of crinoline for lights!

I've bought loads of lampshades and have never heard of one needing extra fittings and have to say none the wiser for googling it either.

Well that's a new one on me - still don't understand what it's for unless the shades are unsupported!

I didn't know those were called gimbals. Gimbal is a nice word. Chambers says it is pronounced jimbl (just so yous know!). Some lampshades come with one of them already attached. I don't think what's needed in houses is quite the same as nautical ones.