beer/wine bottles

[Big Jay]

Just found this guys blog about bottles (stretching,cutting, etc) and thought it was pretty interesting. http://mikegigi.com/bottle.htm

[Kevin Bumble]

Ya know J I have a retail space and have been highly contemplating making a section of recycled cups, have ya seen the mason jars with fancy stems and feet on the bottom, I can cut and polish most any bottle OBV, I'm doing it make space in the case, all systems go!!!

[PhilosophicalPete]

Great inspiration; my parents have a glass bottle tree. I bet they would love some weird twisted bottles for it. I need to look up soft glass annealing temps though, it's been a while.

[Bo Diddles]

A gallery that has some of my work sells the shit out of beer bottles with painted labels that have been opened up to make drinking glasses.

[Ne2]

I have a lot of soft glass friends that do this with beer bottles. Gotta be ceramic labels (red stripe,rolling rock).
They sell really well for $10 - $15 each.

I have always wondered if I could do it on my Herbie with a lot of compressed air??

[jac1961]

I'd love a nice bourbon bottle coffee mug for at work! :D

[Kevin Bumble]

why not cut them on a saw an put them in a top loader (open it up lightly flame polish with a torch) and ramp down

[Big Jay]

why not cut them on a saw an put them in a top loader (open it up lightly flame polish with a torch) and ramp down

That's what I was thinking or a long kiln shelf that would stick out of my punty door, open the guillotine and pull the shelf out, use a hand torch to polish and slide back in.

As far as the paper labels, seems to me I remember you could just order new labels.

[jesse dog]

why not cut them on a saw an put them in a top loader (open it up lightly flame polish with a torch) and ramp down

Years ago I made a special door for my frontloader; a "door" with one long slit it it, end to end, at the height needed for fire polishing cut offs. I lined up the cup behind the slit, brought it up to speed, and used the old National 3A. Worked great. It was an expanded steel frame with frax tacked/wired (kanthol from Gibberson) onto it. A couple of hooks to hang that bad boy off the front of the box. It paid for itself the first day of use.

[Aussie]

I wouldn't suggest them for hot beverages, John, that sort of glass does not like thermal shock in my experience even when properly annealed...

Australian artist Ruth Allen makes glasses, jugs and other stuff out of stubbies
http://ruthallen.com.au/shop

[Ne2]

why not cut them on a saw an put them in a top loader (open it up lightly flame polish with a torch) and ramp down

This would work great and would give a very clean edge, but then the cups won't hold a whole beer :bummed:

At the furnace, you punty up to the bottom and heat the entire neck. Then you can use your jacks to open the mouth and neck to the same diameter as the bottom.
A 12 ounce bottle can hold about 14-16 oz

[Kevin Bumble]

unless you use a 24 oz bottle or a bozze bottel, trust me i have played with these in a furnace, i also make cups and understand how large they have to be to hold a full beer and while where on the beer topic have you ever used a juice glass i find they are better much smaller than a cup a drunk needs there are many customers out there...

[Ne2]

This is very true... Maybe if I drank more I would have thought of using 24oz bottles.

The juice glass is probably the perfect size to prevent my inevitable hangover

[mdnojamt]

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[Riley]

Not to blow up her spot but one of my favorite glass and bead artists who lives here, bronwen heilman, does an array of recycled bottle works on the torch. She's an all around badass and her enamel work is her true killing, but I think the recycling aspect is a really appealing angle.