How To Make A Hurricane Lamp Out Of A Wine Bottle

Use any bottle you like so long as it s heavy enough to balance your lamp hardware.

How to make a hurricane lamp out of a wine bottle.

The washer should be large enough that it won t be able to fit through the neck of the bottle. Immediately run the cut area under cool water spinning the bottle to make sure that you cool the glass around the entire cut. Remember that awesome old wine bottle i bought at the insyde outsyde shop. Lamp harp if you re doing a lampshade on the bottle lamp steps.

The first method is to just cut a length of 1 2 fiberglass wick long enough to stick out of the bottle and curl at the bottom. Making a lamp from a bottle is actually pretty easy. Let it hang out and absorb oil. Run the wire through a rubber grommet or other acceptable piece of padding a large washer and the base of the socket.

Pull about 1 2 3 4 of wick exposed past the lip of the bottle top. Begin by pouring boiling water over the scored area until the bottle is warm and you can see condensation inside. I bought a package at home depot with all the parts but you can easily gather them. Run electrical cable through the hole in the bottom of your wine bottle to the lamp nipple cork part and into the lamp socket.

Make sure that all the parts are connected before screwing the electrical cable to the socket. I used a champagne like bottle from the brooklyn brewery s delicious refermented brew local one. Alternate between heating and cooling the bottle until the scored line widens. Get your stuff together.

Bottle of your choice. Pull the bitter ends of the wire down through the top of the wine bottle and out the bottom.