How To Make A Hurricane Lamp Out Of A Wine Bottle

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.

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. Run electrical cable through the hole in the bottom of your wine bottle to the lamp nipple cork part and into the lamp socket. Lamp harp if you re doing a lampshade on the bottle lamp steps. Get your stuff together.

A stabilizing plug to fit your bottle opening rubber stopper with a hole in. Alternate between heating and cooling the bottle until the scored line widens. Remember that awesome old wine bottle i bought at the insyde outsyde shop. Affiliate links included in this post.

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. 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. Bottle of your choice.

Make sure that all the parts are connected before screwing the electrical cable to the socket. Use any bottle you like so long as it s heavy enough to balance your lamp hardware. Making a lamp from a bottle is actually pretty easy. 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. Begin by pouring boiling water over the scored area until the bottle is warm and you can see condensation inside.