Pocket Sized Lantern

Step 2 Pierce the Lid:

With your knife, pierce a hole in your jar lid. Make it different sizes or shapes according to the kind of wick you're using. Use a gentle back and forth wiggling motion rather than straight pressure in order to avoid injury.

Comments

[pleabargain]

Woh. Be caeful. Put the lid down and tap the blade into the top. No lamp is worth a bloody hand.

[Bill1965]

Ahhh relax guys its not that dangerous chill a little and grow a spine Billy "eight fingers" 1965

[capaky]

A hammer and nail would work...

[MrRodrigez]

 lol this is dangerous?? i've done dumber stuff without injury...narrowly :D

[sighn-up]

i lost a finger doing that!

[sharlston]

as if

[Direcleit]

I suggest (carefully) using a drill to make the hole and taking a slightly larger drill-bit to manually ream-off the burr afterwards? Just be careful!

[Gearz]

wow this picture makes the old Scout Master in me cringe,

[sctirvn687]

Which picture?

[Grahamwithimps]

Echo what pleabargain just said! Never put a hand in front of a blade. This could easily be done by holding it flat on a piece of scrap wood...

[BEAST14]

I would use a hammer and a "tap" or "punch". Or a nail would do. The last time I did something like this and used a knife, my wick ended up snagging and tearing on the way through the hole.

[smh]

My wick was flat shaped so a nail wouldn't have worked, but for a shoelace the nail would work nicely, assuming it was thick enough.