Weekend Project: Drinking Glass Bottle Low-Cal Installation
Saturday, 19 May 2012
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I came across this actually expert illustration of a drinking glass bottle lite installation this calendar week from the folks at Tuis magazine (out of South Africa). We've seen this done amongst bricklayer jars - but I similar this to a greater extent than updated version using clear beer bottles. Sorry bricklayer jars. The neon coloured cords actually brand a divergence too. Cool tip: As it's difficult to honor coloured lite cords (in South Africa in addition to N. America for that matter), they improvised yesteryear roofing the white cord amongst coloured electrical record (so in addition to then clever)! How to: Probably the hardest thing to practise inward this projection is cutting the drinking glass in addition to if yous tin pick upwardly this journal they possess got a cracking tutorial. I bought it through Zinio here (and they possess got an english version of it at that spot equally well, called Home). But if yous desire a actually expert video on it, I establish a bottle cutting tutorial here on Make. (Hint: Fast forrard to most 3:30 to instruct to the how-to). The Generation Green (g2) Bottle Cutter looks similar a expert pick in addition to the 1 beingness used inward the Make video. The other tricky thing is difficult wiring all the wires together. They exhibit how inward the magazine, but if I was making this, I intend I would play it prophylactic in addition to accept it to an electrician to practise for me. They package the cords together amongst connection blocks but there's a whole bunch of wattage issues to consider, in addition to then yous in all likelihood need to honor a expert tutorial on this if yous were to tackle it yourself. Anyway - a footling inspiration for a weekend project! (Photo: Francois Olberholster | Project: Ashley Stemmet). Happy Weekend!
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