How To Make A Hurricane Lamp Out Of A Wine Bottle

Make sure that all the parts are connected before screwing the electrical cable to the socket.

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

Making a lamp from a bottle is actually pretty easy. Pull about 1 2 3 4 of wick exposed past the lip of the bottle top. Pull the bitter ends of the wire down through the top of the wine bottle and out the bottom. 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.

I used a champagne like bottle from the brooklyn brewery s delicious refermented brew local one. Affiliate links included in this post. I bought a package at home depot with all the parts but you can easily gather them. Remember that awesome old wine bottle i bought at the insyde outsyde shop.

Alternate between heating and cooling the bottle until the scored line widens. Run electrical cable through the hole in the bottom of your wine bottle to the lamp nipple cork part and into the lamp socket. The washer should be large enough that it won t be able to fit through the neck of the bottle. Begin by pouring boiling water over the scored area until the bottle is warm and you can see condensation inside.

Use any bottle you like so long as it s heavy enough to balance your lamp hardware. A stabilizing plug to fit your bottle opening rubber stopper with a hole in. Get your stuff together. Let it hang out and absorb oil.

Immediately run the cut area under cool water spinning the bottle to make sure that you cool the glass around the entire cut. Run the wire through a rubber grommet or other acceptable piece of padding a large washer and the base of the socket.