And I'm sure YOU enjoyed coming up the parts to make it. Empty Jack Black bottles are hard to find, so you have to empty them yourself, right?Just finished up my son-in-laws Christmas present. They just got married 2 weeks ago, so this will be his first Christmas as an official member of the family. Hope he likes it.View attachment 113355
Yep. I emptied that bottle a couple of years ago. One of my buddies that deer hunts on my farm brought that to me full, for letting him hunt. I kept the bottle, thinking that one day it would make a cool lamp for my man cave. It's now going to go into my son-in-laws man cave. Might have to buy me a bottle that size and drain the contents so I can make another one like it for me. Toughest part was diamond core drilling through the glass bottle for the cord set to feed through. Worked like a charm in the drill press.And I'm sure YOU enjoyed coming up the parts to make it. Empty Jack Black bottles are hard to find, so you have to empty them yourself, right?
Sand, polished rocks, polished rocks the color of the dearly departed liquid, etc. I have even seen guys put old rusty nuts and bolts on them. The possibilities are as big as your imagination.I was thinking of filling it with sand to give it some weight. The inverted saucer idea is good, too, if I can find one the right size and shape. The bottle is an oval about six or seven inches on the wide side and three or four on the narrow side. Worst case a hand made wooden base,
And I'm sure YOU enjoyed coming up the parts to make it. Empty Jack Black bottles are hard to find, so you have to empty them yourself, right?
Many years ago, I was doing some electrical work in the basement section of a Nuns Convent. You wouldn't believe all the Whiskey Bottles that were stashed above the false ceiling!I found one in the crawl space years ago, it was definitely an old bottle, I should have flipped it when I had a chance, its long gone in a landfill somewhere on this planet
Many years ago, I was doing some electrical work in the basement section of a Nuns Convent. You wouldn't believe all the Whiskey Bottles that were stashed above the false ceiling!