How To Make A Hurricane Lamp Out Of A Wine Bottle

I bought a package at home depot with all the parts but you can easily gather them.

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

Pull about 1 2 3 4 of wick exposed past the lip of the bottle top. 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. Use any bottle you like so long as it s heavy enough to balance your lamp hardware. Run the wire through a rubber grommet or other acceptable piece of padding a large washer and the base of the socket.

Alternate between heating and cooling the bottle until the scored line widens. Pull the bitter ends of the wire down through the top of the wine bottle and out the bottom. Lamp harp if you re doing a lampshade on the bottle lamp steps. Get your stuff together.

Let it hang out and absorb oil. Bottle of your choice. I used a champagne like bottle from the brooklyn brewery s delicious refermented brew local one. A stabilizing plug to fit your bottle opening rubber stopper with a hole in.

Making a lamp from a bottle is actually pretty easy. Begin by pouring boiling water over the scored area until the bottle is warm and you can see condensation inside. Immediately run the cut area under cool water spinning the bottle to make sure that you cool the glass around the entire cut. The washer should be large enough that it won t be able to fit through the neck of the bottle.

Run electrical cable through the hole in the bottom of your wine bottle to the lamp nipple cork part and into the lamp socket. Remember that awesome old wine bottle i bought at the insyde outsyde shop.