Abstract: An electric lamp stand which is made of elongated and longitudinally bored sections and characterized by a connection between two sections which is strong and relatively inexpensive with a connect that acts as a bolt rather than a screw. This electric lamp stand comprises a pair of lamp stand sections, made of wood turnings, each having a bore therethrough and both operatively abutting each other with the bores in endwise alignment and communication. This electric lamp stand distinctively includes a counterbore in one of the lamp stand sections, a first nut pressed in the counterbore, an externally threaded tube having one end screwed in this nut and having the other end extending in the bore of the other lamp stand section, and a second nut screwed on this other end of the tube and with the first nut and tube cooperativey bolting the two lamp stand sections in firm abutment with each other.