Reddit mentions of Creative Hobbies Silver Finish Bottle Lamp Kit with 3 Rubber Adapters for Wine, Liquor Bottles, Jugs and More

Thanks for the feedback. The hardest part was cutting the hole at the bottom of the bottle. I believe the hole will prevent all the heat from being trapped in addition to allowing a full size accessible light bulb. Also I'm using an LED Philips Hue bulb. So that won't build up too much heat. Plus the automation removed the need to actually switch the lamp on and off. I guess you can just plug and unplug as needed.

All links point to Amazon:

First you need the hole saws to cut the hole at the bottom ($18.99) I bought a kit but ultimately the 70mm is all I used:
Amazon Hole Saw

I also picked up a glass cutting oil ($8.38):
Amazon Glass Cutting Oil

Then I needed a lamp kit ($10.99) This pretty cool because you can make a lamp from a bottle without cutting the bottle. :
Amazon Lamp Kit

Naturally you need an empty bottle of Hooch. I'm not pricing this because it serves another delicious purpose.

The base is a leftover 2X6 Pine from a previous project. Being left outside for a couple years gave it a nice patina. It adds weight to the bottom for stability and the width keeps it from tipping over sideways. The height also lets you snake the cord through the wood for a nicer, finished look. I wanted stained oak but it cost more than I wanted to spend.

All the pipe parts are from a big box hardware store. They added up to about $50. I initially wanted black pipe but I switched to galvanized because they were missing one part and I really didn't want to go elsewhere plus I know I'm making a second one so no big deal. All the pipe parts are 1 inch diameter.
The pipe parts from bottom (base) up and around the top to the bottle are:


floor flange

4 lag screws (to attached flange to wood, pre-drill to prevent splitting)

8 inch pipe

female/female coupler

8 inch pipe

elbow (female / female)

1 inch pipe

elbow (female/male) I think this is called a street elbow

reducer 1.75" to 1" (which is actually used to expand from 1" to 1.75")


Finally some electrical tape.

Assembly:
I drilled two perpendicular holes in the wood to run the cord into the side of the wood and up. As you build you can push the lamp cord through the pipe/wood/bottle for ease of assembly. The wall plug part of the lamp is non-serviceable so you thread the bare wire through and when you are done you attach the socket/switch and all that.

Now push the wire through the wood. In the picture from right to left and up through the floor flange. My wife helped me with this by taping stiff hobby wire first then pulled up the cord. Worked like a charm.

The pipe part is self explanatory. Thread your pipe, run your cable, repeat.

Now you get to the reducer. From here I drilled a hole through the bottle's cap and assembled the lamp stem to the cap. I figured it would be easier that doing it inside the reducer. You pass the rod through the cap, use nuts on both ends of the cap. The kit comes with 1 nut, so you can either find another nut somewhere else or use the rubber stoppers to compression fit, none of the stoppers are big enough to plug the opening of the bottle I used. You can also just pass the wire bare through the cap since the assembly actually serves no purpose. Remember when you are done the lamp is upside down. Now push the cable through the reducer, through the rod/cap assembly. I originally used a shit-ton of hot glue to attach the cap inside the reducer but the glue didn't stick to the metal at all. I guess you can use JB Weld but I never had any success with that so instead I wrapped some electrical tape around the outside of the cap to fatten it up. Since the tape is relatively soft it threaded nicely. It was trial and error, fit, tape, fit tape. I like how it came out better. If you use the bottle as leverage you can actually thread it past the thread and it sits above them. This allows the bottle to wobble a bit but nothing so severe and it passes the pull down test. Unfortunately is doesn't work to remove the cap because the bottle is less resistant and just unscrews itself. You can always just unscrew the reducer and work the cap lose if you need to.

Thread the wire through the bottle and out the hole.

Assemble the lamp bits, screw in the bulb and test. Make sure the lamp is switched on. Finally carefully pull all the slack out to get the socket at a height you want. It doesn't fit inside the neck so it sits below that and it does wobble around in the bottle so be careful.

If you need to change the bulb just push the wire in, to drop the socket. You can work around the base by twisting the lamp 45 degrees to the base. This will let the bulb drop clear.

I didn't use any glue or anything so the whole thing can be disassembled easily. You can present it sideways like I did or head on depending on your preference.

Since I used a smart build I didn't need to build a switch into it which made it easier to build. I've seen some where they use a garden hose valve to work as a switch. Bad ass but way over my pay grade. Maybe the next one.

In a stillborn version of this instead of using a white build I used a flame led bulb ($15.99, I got them on sale for $10.00):
Amazon LED Flame Bulb.
They looked awesome, but ultimately I chose the white smart bulb. I think If I had a label-less bottle I may have used the flame bulb with a wemo for voice control. I liked it, it's just where I displayed the lamp I actually replaced the lamp so I made it a light source rather than decoration.

Google image search Whiskey Bottle Pipe Lamp for ideas. There are versions that have feet instead of the wood base. I liked those but the pipe can start to get expensive, by my estimation pipe feet would have probably doubled the cost.

That's it. Whole thing cost about a hundy with tools, booze and parts all together.

This kit with a La Galleria bottle at the moment. The instructions suck, but it was pretty easy.