What you will need:

  • 1 Skull
  • 1 Battery or 120V lamp fixture*
  • 1 Flicker flame bulb
  • 1 1-5 minute epoxy
  • Liquid latex
  • Red paint or pigment for dying latex
  • 1/4 inch drill bit and drill
  • Wire cutters/stripers/crimpers and butt end connectors.
* These fixtures can be found at most arts and crafts stores.

The first thing you want to do is remove or epoxy the jaw to the skull and make sure that it sits flat and doesn't wobble. Now drill a 1/4 hole(or whatever size your wire requires) into the top of the skull. Now take your candle's cord(if its a 120V) and make a cut approx. 3 inches from the plug. If your candle stick has the cord running out of the side of it, try feeding the wire down the center of the candle stick base, this way from all angles you will not be able to see the cord. Now run the wire through the hole in the skull and out the bottom. Now take the epoxy and glue the base of the candle stick to the top of the skull. While the epoxy is drying, mix up the paint and latex until you have a blood colored substance(remember that the latex will dry a lot darker then the wet mixture, so mix up the latex in a jar so you can seal it while your testing the dried color.) Once you've acquired the desired color, cover the socket with a piece of tape and drip the latex down the sides of the candle stick. Leave it overnight to dry. Once the latex and epoxy are dry and set, strip the ends of the wire and re-attach the plug to the wire. Screw in the flicker flame bulb and plug it in. Your new candlestick is ready to go. Please make sure their are no bare wires showing, I'm sure you don't want to see your concoction go up in flames.



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