How To Make A Hurricane Lamp Out Of A Wine Bottle

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How to make a hurricane lamp out of a wine bottle. A stabilizing plug to fit your bottle opening rubber stopper with a hole in. Begin by pouring boiling water over the scored area until the bottle is warm and you can see condensation inside. I used a champagne like bottle from the brooklyn brewery s delicious refermented brew local one. Immediately run the cut area under cool water spinning the bottle to make sure that you cool the glass around the entire cut.

Cut a piece of wick about one and a half times the length of the bottle thread about an inch of it through the bottle wick and lower the rest down into the bottle. Run the wire through a rubber grommet or other acceptable piece of padding a large washer and the base of the socket. Make sure that all the parts are connected before screwing the electrical cable to the socket. Let it hang out and absorb oil.

Bottle of your choice. Lamp harp if you re doing a lampshade on the bottle lamp steps. Remember that awesome old wine bottle i bought at the insyde outsyde shop. The washer should be large enough that it won t be able to fit through the neck of the bottle.

Making a lamp from a bottle is actually pretty easy. Run electrical cable through the hole in the bottom of your wine bottle to the lamp nipple cork part and into the lamp socket. Affiliate links included in this post. I bought a package at home depot with all the parts but you can easily gather them.

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