How to Make a DIY Candle Lantern Stand

DIY Stand for Candle Lantern

11/2/2022

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Here's a unique DIY Steph designed to give an ordinary camping candle a little more presence to use as home decor.

Take a look. Along the way she shares some cool accessories she uses with her candle. The rechargeable USB lighter is magic!

Materials/Tools:

UCO Original Candle Lantern Value Pack with 3 Candles and Storage Bag (Amazon)
UCO 9-Hour White Candles for UCO Candle Lanterns and Emergency Preparedness (Amazon)
Candle Lighter Electric Arc Lighter Rechargeable USB Lighter Flameless (Amazon)
Wick Dipper Candle Snuffer Put Out Candle Hooks (Amazon)
DEWALT 20-Volt MAX Cordless Band Saw (Home Depot)
Rockler Portable Drill Guide (Amazon)
Makita 18V LXT Lithium-Ion 1/2 in. Brushless Cordless Hammer Driver-Drill (Home Depot)
Milwaukee Cobalt Red Helix Drill Bit Set for Drill Drivers (Home Depot)
Bosch Daredevil High Carbon Steel Standard Spade Bit Set (Home Depot)
Loctite Super Glue (Amazon)
Husky Gimbal Palm Ratchet (Home Depot)
Dremel (Amazon)
Dremel 194 Carving Bit (Amazon)
Mineral Spirits (Amazon)
Wax (Amazon)
Plastic Razor Blade Scraper (Amazon)
Slice Ceramic Blade Craft Knife (Amazon)

Using pallet wood for the candle holder base.

All the material used in the build, Steph found in our ever growing stash of cut-off of wood and metal. She chose a well-aged piece of pallet wood and a couple of pieces of metal. Here she is determining how long to cut the base.

Here's all the things Steph used in the build. That's a portable band saw on the far left and the blue thing in the back is a portable drill press.

Cutting small pieces with the DeWalt band saw is so easy. This is the one tool that we thought we'd never use, but ended up using it a lot!

Here Steph is using a Rockler drill press to accurately drill the hole for the lighter to be stored.

We used Milwaukee drill bits to drill through the metal bar.

She used the press again to drill holes into the flat bar of metal. See the materials list for the drill bits she used.

She cut the base to length on the Milwaukee miter saw.

Attaching the metal bar to the base of the candle lantern stand.

The flat bar is screwed into the base through that hole she previously drilled through the metal.

Creating the stand for the candle lantern.

The fit of the top bar is tested and to mark where the grooves need to be made. The grooves will insure the lantern and wick snuffer will stay in place.

Here's a good way to use a Dremel 194 carving bit.

Steph put the rod into the vice and used a Dremel carving bit to carve out a couple of simple grooves.

Steph first secured the rod to the flat bar with Gorilla Glue but that didn't work but the Loctite super glue did!

There's a place for the lantern, lighter, and snuffer.

The little camping lantern, can now take it's place as home decor!

This new candle lantern stand is a perfect addition to Steph's rustic home decor. It looks intention now rather than just a little candle sitting on a counter.

I love that all the accessories are conveniently stored neatly with it.

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FYI: We are not professionals, and we don't claim to be. This is what we found worked for our project. Yours may need a little different approach. Safety first!

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