How To Make A Hurricane Lamp Out Of A Wine Bottle

Making a lamp from a bottle is actually pretty easy.

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. Begin by pouring boiling water over the scored area until the bottle is warm and you can see condensation inside. Make sure that all the parts are connected before screwing the electrical cable to the socket. Alternate between heating and cooling the bottle until the scored line widens.

Let it hang out and absorb oil. Pull the bitter ends of the wire down through the top of the wine bottle and out the bottom. 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. 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. 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. Lamp harp if you re doing a lampshade on the bottle lamp steps. Immediately run the cut area under cool water spinning the bottle to make sure that you cool the glass around the entire cut.

A stabilizing plug to fit your bottle opening rubber stopper with a hole in. 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. Affiliate links included in this post.

Run electrical cable through the hole in the bottom of your wine bottle to the lamp nipple cork part and into the lamp socket. Bottle of your choice.