Wine Bottle Tiki Torch

Photos taken by John Cantwell: http://www.cantwellphoto.com/

I have been wanting to make wine bottle tiki torches ever since I saw this post about them on design sponge: http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009/08/diy-project-eriks-recycled-wine-bottle-torch.html. I couldn't get much help at my hardware store so I gave up for a while.

I was in the garden and looking at these old tiki torches that had lost their oil holders and were just looking ugly. I decided to cut off the old cane and see what glass might fit in them. To my great excitement, the Riesling bottles are a perfect fit!!

2 new cobalt blue wine bottle tiki torches: $0.00.

Take 2 old tiki torches:


old tiki torch, originally uploaded by queenofthemoodswingset2.

Cut off all the faded and gross cane:

Removing the old cane strips, originally uploaded by queenofthemoodswingset2.

insert the wine bottles:

lampsbench, originally uploaded by queenofthemoodswingset2.

Fill with citronella oil and insert a wick. (I didn't have a wick holder so I just used some heavy wire. I'll probably get the real holder, but this works)


tiki bottles Nikon 70-300mm VR, originally uploaded by Cantwell Photo.

Photos taken by John Cantwell: http://www.cantwellphoto.com/

And light!!

DSC_3241p, originally uploaded by queenofthemoodswingset2.

(except this photo, I took this one)