Make A Wine Bottle Lamp
by: Duncan Clarke on Fri, 10 Sep 2010 at: 10:35 AM Go to: Previous Article Next Article
If you want a brand new decorative lamp, don't buy an expensive lamp from the store. You can make a wine bottle lamp that's highly decorative and completely functional. Best of all you can make your wine bottle lamp to match any theme or color, and no one will guess you made this impressive lamp yourself. To make a decorative and functional wine bottle lamp you'll of course need a clear wine bottle. A large jug style bottle works the best for this project. You'll also need a bottle adapter lamp kit, and a lampshade. You can find bottle adapter lamp kits in most craft stores and hardware stores.
Various options are nearly limitless. From marbles, colorful candy, buttons, beads, coins, polished stones, layers of colored sand, to anything else that you think suitable for your project. Also you can use silk flowers, shells, shredded colored paper, faux gems, or aquarium gravel to fill your wine bottle lamp. With the aid of your imagination which matches specific theme or design for your wine bottle lamp .
You must drill a hole in the glass which the cord of the bottle adapter lamp kit attached to the socket so that it will not protrude from the top of the lamp. In hiding the cord carefully drill an opening near the base of the bottle by using a carbon-tipped glass bit. Though, hiding the cord isn't necessary to make a fascinating lamp for the cord attached to the bottom of the bottles lamp is visually attractive enough than a cord coming out of a socket.
To cover the opening of your wine bottle, select a cork from the bottle adapter lamp kit which fits. Mostly, bottle adapter lamp kits are compatible for all variety of size bottles. This kit includes washers, a harp cradle, knurled nuts, a spindle, socket base, a cord, and a socket cover. To begin with, bring insert the spindle into the cork in assembling the bottle adapter lamp kit, while in its both ends attaching the nuts with washers. Then place and twist tightly the cork into the mouth of the wine bottle.
After, the harp cradle must be attached to the spindle, and screwing the socket base. With the use of a stripping tool strip the ends of the cord and then thread it into the socket base. Its stripped ends will be attached to the socket connectors, and before securing the screws wrap it in a clockwise manner. For further details you can read the instructions on your adapter kit. Finally, the harp's finial must be removed first, and then put the lampshade over the spindle. After doing so, screw back into its former place the finial, and set up a light bulb. That's it your creative wine bottle lamp is finished.
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