How to make a candlestick with your own hands: 70 photos, 7 ideas and workshops

Do you want to decorate the house for the holiday or just create an atmosphere of comfort in it? Then just decorate the dining table, shelves and consoles with candles. And in order to save on the purchase of a variety of candlesticks, we recommend making them with your own hands. In this material, you will gather 7 ideas for making candlesticks from easily accessible, handy and even junk materials in just one evening.

Idea 1. Candlestick from wooden saws

The saw cut of a tree is almost ready candlestick, beautiful, eco-friendly and universal. It will be appropriate in table setting or interior design all year round, including the New Year holidays.

How to do it: Cuts can be made with your own hands, but faster and easier to buy ready-made, which are sold in many online stores and shops for creativity. "Ready" cuts are good because they do not have splits and cracks, they are properly dried and can already be polished. You can choose cuts of different diameter, height, different types of wood and make a whole set of candlesticks. You can make a cell for a candle in a saw using a drill with a forstner drill (about 150 rubles) or another drill that can make a blind circular hole of the diameter you need Drill bit, etc.).

Idea 2. A candlestick from a wooden bar

And here is another idea to make a candlestick made of wood with your own hands, however, this time from a bar. However, you can replace the bar with dried log or board of a suitable size.

How to do it: To make a large wooden candlestick with your own hands, you will need:

• Dry planed or unplaned wooden bar (preferably wider so that the candlestick is stable). In this master class, a bar of 100 × 100 mm was used.
• Drill and Forstner drill bit of a suitable diameter (under your candles) or any other drill bit that can cut a blind circular hole of a small depth of 0.5-1 cm or more. Here a drill with a diameter of 50mm was used.
• Square.
• Roulette.
• Pencil.
• Hammer.
• Stain the desired color, rag or brush.
• Rubber gloves.

Step 1. The first thing you need to cut from the bar segment of the desired length using a saw or jigsaw. In this project, the candlestick was made to decorate a large table, so it has a length of 90 cm. Consider how many candles your candlestick will accommodate and how much time there will be between them. Then mark the cut line, cut the bar and lightly polish it with sandpaper.

Step 2. Next you need to draw a markup on the bar to place the candles.To do this, first decide on the length of the indents from the edges of the candlestick (in this MC, 7 cm indents are made), then just place the candles on the bar with an equal interval, circle them and mark the center of each circle with a dot.

Step 3. Cut out shallow round holes of shallow depth with a Forstner drill and drill. Do not worry if the edges of the cells are rough, for our candlestick in the rustic style this is just a plus.

Step 4. Give the tree an old and careless look by tapping the ends of the candlestick with a hammer. You can dent in only a few places or on all visible sides of the bar.

Step 5. Now you need to give the tree color, while maintaining the visibility of its pattern and beautiful texture. To do this, simply rub the stain with a soft cloth into the surface of the product in a single layer, and then let it dry.

That's what you should do.

Idea 3. Candlestick from the bottle

Not only elegant or vintage candlesticks are produced from glass bottles, but also caps. Here are some ideas you might like and are very easy to implement.

How to do it: There is nothing easier than to make a candlestick out of the bottle with your own hands as in the photo above, because all you need to do is cut it off and fill it with wax with a wick, or just put a small candle. Cut the glass bottle in two ways.

• 1 way: Blot a thick cotton thread in alcohol (eg, in nail polish remover), then wrap the bottle with it. Lightly light the thread and immediately begin to rotate the bottle around its axis so that the fire spreads along the entire length of the thread. Now immerse the bottle in boiling water for 3 minutes, and then immediately transfer it into a container with cold water. Due to a sharp temperature drop, the glass will crack where the burning thread was tied. However, if the glass is too thick, for example, like a champagne bottle, then the procedure will have to be repeated 2-3 times.
• 2 way: If you have a glass cutter or glass drill, then you can use them. Wrap the bottle with a rubber band, and then draw a line with a glass cutter along its contour. Burn the incision line, immerse the bottle in boiling water for 3 minutes, and then quickly transfer it to cold water.

When the bottle breaks, process the sharp edge with an emery paper, first of coarse and then fine grain.

Now that the candlestick is almost ready, you can insert a wick in it, locking it in a vertical position (eg, with Chinese chopsticks as shown in the photo) and finally fill it with pre-melted paraffin.

Further, you can additionally decorate candlesticks to your taste, for example, paint with colors, wrap with ribbons, lace or jute, glue sparkles, rhinestones, small pine twigs, etc.

see also other bottle crafts.

Idea 4. Candlestick made of glass or tin

Banks are another available material from which you can quickly and easily make a candlestick. In this collection of photos you can learn ideas for the decoration of Christmas candlesticks.

In this video, you can see a master class on how to make a New Year's candlestick with your own hands from a glass jar.

Here is an example of candlesticks that you can make with your own hands from a tin can.

You can see a detailed master class on making a candlestick from a tin can in the next video.

see also other crafts from tin and glass jars.

Idea 5. Candlestick made of plaster or concrete

Poured into any container concrete or plaster, drying, takes the form of a container.Thus, in order to make a candlestick with your own hands, you only need to find a suitable disposable container, for example, a plastic bottle or a yoghurt package.

The principle of working with assembly mixtures can be found in the following workshops.

Idea 6. Candlestick-flashlight made of polymer clay

Polymer clay (plastic) is excellent for making figured or openwork candlesticks, in which the candle light adorns the walls with intricate patterns or plots. If you need to make a thematic candlestick, say, for Halloween or New Year or you just have an original idea, then we recommend experimenting with this material. Next, we present a selection of photo ideas for lanterns and candlesticks made of polymer clay.

How to do it: Whatever form you want to give your candlestick, the principle of working with polymer clay remains general. First you need to draw and cut out the paper pattern of the desired shape. Then you should roll a piece of clay, like a dough, into a small layer with a thickness of a couple of millimeters, put your template on it and cut the part with a knife along the contour. In the same way you need to cut out all the details of the product. Then you can start cutting out patterns and drawings using a knife, metal baking pans or figured pasta. After that, you need to give the blanks the desired shape, combine what can be joined, and allow the plastic to dry (in the oven or in the air, depending on the type of plastic).

When the parts are dry, they can be joined using PVA glue.

Disguise seams and additionally fasten the structure preferably with a self-hardening paste for modeling. In the end, the resulting "patch" (it dries very quickly) must be sanded with an emery paper, first coarse grit.

To give a special smoothness to your candlestick, treat all its surfaces with fine-grain sandpaper.

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Idea 7. Seashell Candlestick

Beautiful candlesticks can be made from sea or river shells.

How to do it:

To make the shells become candlesticks, they need to be filled with melted wax and added with a wick. Both wax and wick can be taken from an ordinary small round candle. Read more about how to make a candlestick from a shell with your own hands. in this article.

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