Hello all!
I tried making the extra bone for the top pole on my lamp model and when I click on the pole and then on the bone for parenting, it moved the pole to the tail of the top bone.
When I was parenting, I clicked the pole and then click on the bone and the whole armature was selected.
Not sure what I am doing wrong. Thank you all in advance. 
-Vor
Okay, so after you’ve selected the bone and it has ended up selecting the whole armature, continue to hold down shift and deselect the bones you don’t want to parent to. Then you should only end up with the bone you do want to parent to selected. See how that works out.
I tried doing that but it doesnt deselect the other bone 
That’s how it worked for me. Did you clear the parent before trying it? If so and it still isn’t working for you the only other thing I can suggest is to make an entirely new armature. It’s certainly a faster way of doing it instead of trying to figure out what went wrong. I think I ended up making 3 before I got it right.
OMG!! Thank you @NixeKnox, i had forgotten to clear the parent!!! Wow, thank you so much! This was like finding that one semicolon you forget. lol
