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Kraken Rum Beachcomber Lamp

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Murph posted on 03/21/2010

Kraken Rum is excellent but I really love the bottles.
So yesterday at the Tiki Chop I made this "old school" style beachcomber lamp
out of the Kraken Rum bottle we all finished off.





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amybean posted on 03/21/2010

I LOVE IT!! Have a bottle as well, was wondering how to celebrate its majesty!

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teaKEY posted on 03/22/2010

How bout a in the dark shot of that. I'm making one too. I already got the bottle.

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Polynesiac posted on 03/22/2010

Great job murph! Nice job on the aging it looks like it could be vintage

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Murph posted on 03/22/2010

On 2010-03-21 17:47, teaKEY wrote:
How bout a in the dark shot of that. I'm making one too. I already got the bottle.

Had to wait for the sun to go down. Here you go.

Good luck with your lamp.

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GROG posted on 03/22/2010

Now, how about a shot of it hanging in GROG' tiki room?

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virani posted on 03/22/2010

wow, that's beautiful !

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tikiskip posted on 03/22/2010

Great job!
How's the rum?

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MadDogMike posted on 03/22/2010

Very nice Murph! Where do those giant piece of cork come from?

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Iokona Ki'i posted on 03/27/2010

very cool murph!

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Tacky Tiki posted on 04/05/2010

How did you get the shells in? Cut the bottom off? If so, how did you seal up the bottom?

The lamp is really awesome.....I've got a couple of cork floats and some driftwood. Shells and Sand. Light fixture. Rope. Bottle cutter from 70's. Just need a bottle! And answers to the above questions!!

:drink:
Tacky

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Murph posted on 04/05/2010

On 2010-04-04 17:34, Tacky Tiki wrote:
How did you get the shells in? Cut the bottom off? If so, how did you seal up the bottom?

The lamp is really awesome.....I've got a couple of cork floats and some driftwood. Shells and Sand. Light fixture. Rope. Bottle cutter from 70's. Just need a bottle! And answers to the above questions!!

:drink:
Tacky

You put them in when they're little babies....

  1. I cut the bottom of the bottle off
  2. Carved out the bottom float to fit the base of the bottle tightly.
  3. Working upside down I filled the bottle with the sand and shells.
  4. With my glue gun I sealed the bottom of the bottle with a round piece of cardstock cut to the diameter of the bottom of the bottle.
  5. Used the glue gun again to seal the float to the bottom of the bottle.
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Monkeyman posted on 04/08/2010

Ingenious !!!

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tyger jymmy posted on 04/08/2010

Flippin TASTY !

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Murph posted on 04/08/2010

On 2010-03-22 06:29, MadDogMike wrote:
Very nice Murph! Where do those giant piece of cork come from?

I used one of the thick net floats from Oceanic Arts and cut it in half.

[ Edited by: Murph 2010-04-08 14:11 ]

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GROG posted on 04/08/2010

This would look great in GROG' Tiki room.

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pdrake posted on 04/08/2010

brilliant! did you use eli hedley's bottle cutting technique?

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Murph posted on 04/09/2010

On 2010-04-08 14:12, GROG wrote:
This would look great in GROG' Tiki room.

Bring over a bottle of Kraken and we'll finish it off and make you a lamp.

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Murph posted on 04/09/2010

On 2010-04-08 14:56, pdrake wrote:
brilliant! did you use eli hedley's bottle cutting technique?

We had a lot of fun practicing on beer bottles.
What was Eli's technique?

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nuKKe posted on 04/10/2010

Lookin' good!

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ZeroTiki posted on 04/29/2010

Murph, you forgot step zero.
Release the Kraken......Into MAH BELLY!

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Trad'r Bill posted on 04/30/2010

Looks great! I've wanted to make one of these too - do you have any recommendations re: glass cutters? I gotta get one!

Trad'r Bill

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pdrake posted on 05/17/2010

he used the hot wire cutting technique.

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Mashuka posted on 06/10/2017

I got the bug a few months back and felt compelled to make one. I used the glass cutter hot & cold water method.


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tikiskip posted on 06/10/2017

Looks good!

Remember these from the 70s?
Big craze was to make glasses from 7-up bottles ect.

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Mashuka posted on 06/10/2017

K-Tel!!! Makes a great gift for the whole family!

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tikiskip posted on 06/11/2017

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