Cover Ring

Not the showpiece of a lamp, but one of the small parts that makes the finished object look deliberate. A cover ring is the collar intended to sit at a junction in a lamp assembly, closing the visual gap where a shade meets its base so the eye reads one object rather than a stack of components. Parts like this are the difference between home-printed lighting that looks like a proper fixture and lighting that looks like a project. The form is a plain circular band, its purpose quiet rather than decorative, and it belongs to the same family as the bases, sleeves and shade holders lamp builders find themselves wanting once the main body is done. A single file, so it is a quick thing to run off midway through a build, or to add to the queue when you are printing a batch of lamp components in one session.