How To Make A Hurricane Lamp Out Of A Wine Bottle

Run the wire through a rubber grommet or other acceptable piece of padding a large washer and the base of the socket.

How to make a hurricane lamp out of a wine bottle. Lamp harp if you re doing a lampshade on the bottle lamp steps. Use any bottle you like so long as it s heavy enough to balance your lamp hardware. Affiliate links included in this post. Pull about 1 2 3 4 of wick exposed past the lip of the bottle top.

I bought a package at home depot with all the parts but you can easily gather them. 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. A stabilizing plug to fit your bottle opening rubber stopper with a hole in.

Make sure that all the parts are connected before screwing the electrical cable to the socket. 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. The washer should be large enough that it won t be able to fit through the neck of the bottle. 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. Let it hang out and absorb oil. Bottle of your choice. Begin by pouring boiling water over the scored area until the bottle is warm and you can see condensation inside.

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. Get your stuff together.