Cut Bottles into Glasses - Cutting Wine and Beer Bottles
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- Cut Bottles into Glasses - Cutting wine and beer bottles to make drinking glasses. Step-by-step tutorial on how I make glasses out of bottles. This is just my process and the way I like to cut bottles into glasses. * UPDATE* We've also published another new short update video showing a faster way to break the bottles by spinning them in the ice water.
See our latest short video update for a QUICKER WAY TO BREAK THE BOTTLES - After dipping the bottles in the hot water for 5 to 7 seconds, immediately immerse the bottle in the ice water and SPIN the bottle in the ice water (doesn't have to be fast, just a little spinning seems to make the score line cold enough to break). I recently started doing this and am getting perfect breaks and almost complete separation on the first dip into the ice water. I did 15 thick wine bottles yesterday and almost all broke after the first dip into the ice water with spinning. Several bottles completely separated in the ice water while spinning the bottle. None of the bottles broke badly. Just make sure you have lots of ice in your cold water container and that your hot water container is slightly simmering.
How-to repurpose wine and beer bottles by upcycling them into glasses or vases. Step-by-step instructions include everything from scoring the bottles and breaking them to sanding the edges smooth.
This video is kind of fast in order to keep it under 6 minutes. Just pause when you need to read something. Thanks for watching!
Equipment List:
Safety Glasses
Gloves
Generation Green (g2) Bottle Cutter - Amazon.com
Tall pot (for simmering water)
Tall plastic pitcher (for ice water)
Pliers
Ear plugs
Respirator
Drill
Dico Switch & Lock Drill Mount - Amazon.com
3M 5" Disc Sander Kit - Amazon.com
Porter Cable 5" 220 Grit Adhesive Sanding Discs (pack of 25) - Amazon.com
Gyros 3/8" Drum Sander Bit - Amazon.com
Gyros 3/8" x 1/2" 240 Grit Sanding Bands - Amazon.com
220 Grit Sand Paper
Thank you, Heather!
I've actually done several Grey Goose bottles, and they've been my favorite so far (given how thick they are, they look really pretty). I did make a rather heavy score line on them. But the most important thing I've found for thick glass is that the temperature difference between the ice water and hot water needs to be significant. When doing thick glass, I make sure I have lots of ice and the water is super cold. I also get the hot water slightly simmering. When I get low on ice, that tends to be when I've had problems breaking the thicker bottles. Hope this helps. Thanks for viewing my video!
Best video on making glasses out of bottles I've seen. Quick and to the point. Thank you!
I've tried the candle and ice method and most my bottled craked everywere. I've use your method and so far my results are better than before so thanks a lot for this video. I also appreciate the sanding method. Mine chiped all of my bottles. a real bummer. Now i will try yours today. Yhanks again!
I'm so glad the video was helpful! Thank you so much for watching and commenting.
Always use wet sandpaper if you breath that dust it's un curable damage
Thanks for mentioning this!!!
Love it!! Very chic and funky!!
Here's how to do it with a specialty tool....
If I had the tool I wouldn't bo looking up how to videos
Awesome video thanks!
Henry Perez Thank you!
Thumbs up for the chicken! :P
This is amazing. Where can I get the scorer tool from?
very neat & careful work.
Thank you so much for responding! On thicker bottles, I'm getting these little hairline cracks that start at the score line and unfortunately go below it, ruining the bottle. Any other tips? Thanks!
I have had that issue before on really really thick bottles or bottles that have defects in the glass (hand blown, etc). One particular bottle I get asked to do a lot is a blue Mexican Tequila bottle that's just beautiful. But the glass is so thick that I usually get 1 out of about 20 to break correctly. My record has improved with the spinning in the ice water technique, but I still lose a lot. Thick Grey Goose bottles (or I even did a super thick Maker's Mark bottle once) seem to break really well. Sorry I don't have more help! Good luck!
Enjoyed this video!
Really enjoyed the vid. I'm just started thinking about getting into this. How much were the glass cutting tools that you used? I've got the sanders.
Thank you for watching the video! The Generation Green (G2) Bottle Cutter is about $16 or $17 online, I believe.
awesome
I want to do this! Love the chicken.
Totally cool!!!!
dramatic chicken production lol you funny babe F*love IT
and very skilled love me some you
Hey Holly, what speed do you have your large drill on when you're evening out the top of the glasses and what speed is it on when you're smoothing the outer and inner edges?
Thanks!
Thanks for watching my video! My drills don't really have a speed setting. When I lock them down to stay running, they just go at full speed. The cordless drill is actually too slow for me. Sometimes I'll just work on sanding all the glasses flat, then switch out the bits on my non-cordless drill and do the edges with it, too. Holly
Love this
is it safe to drink from it?
Where do you get these tools?
Link to the bottle cutter...
Dont use these as drinking glasses my advice. I cant imagine trying to get glass out of your body.
You don't think washing it thoroughly would be enough?
Love the fast forward effect!! I wish more folks knew the trick.
James, Thanks for watching! I have changed my procedure since the video was posted (see the info section). I definitely need to do an update video. I now dip the bottles for 5 seconds in the hot water, then spin them in the cold ice water and they separate immediately. Takes about 10 seconds total per bottle. I've found that to be much faster now. Before coming up with the procedure I use, I went through so many ways of trying to break the bottles. Leaving them in the hot water for long periods actually caused the bottles to break badly (ie the bottoms would just come off if there was a seam, etc). Thanks again for watching! :)
Is there a way to do this, but keep the label on the bottle? I love so many of my wine labels, would love to keep them on the drinking glass.
I wonder if I could use this type of bottle as a to put candle wax in ?
Does anybody know how to keep the labels from falling off when you are using for glass and you are washing them?
Hi Holly. I like your whole setup. Im in new zealand and bottle cutters avail are a wee bit clunky... Good stuff.
Приспособа со стеклорезом понравилась =) Я горящей веревкой режу. Но там надо веревку спускать на 5 - 7 мм ниже линии стеклореза, чтоб ровно отрезало
Great video! You helped me speed up my process greatly!I had an elaborate setup for sanding, using my slow wet grinder, and it would take only slightly less time than hand sanding! So using the higher rpm drill sander is a revelation, thanks!
Girl, you got some serious equipment there. Great job. Thanks for sharing.
This is the best method I've seen so far, really beautiful work thanks!
This was so incredibly helpful! Thank you for showing and explaining all the steps! Going to try it today - wish me luck!
Will this tool worl on oval, square and hexagon shaped bottles?
It’s a mystery. Not great when the channel doesn’t respond.
Where is the link to the additional video about spinning the bottle in the ice water? Thanks!
th-cam.com/video/BF-xOZHI1_M/w-d-xo.html
If you have access to a laser cutter, I can send you plans for making a better drum sander. Great video anyway. Thanks. Very well photographed and produced.
Can’t one continue with scoring to go further in…?
I bought a bottle cutter a while ago but it wasn’t quite what I expected
How can you preserve the labels on a wine bottle that you want to keep? Epoxy?
5:03 Очки от пыли в легких которая не выводится не помогут это все делается с водой
One other question, do you have to tap inside the bottle or can you tap on the outside?
I actually had my tapper break on me and attempted to tap on the outside. It would not work. I'm not sure why, but I've also read that tapping on the outside (onto the score line) will not work at all. Thanks for watching!
Liked your video. What size is that big sanding disc. I've got to figure out how to strap my drill onto something. That seems to work very well. Thanks for sharing. I really want to get into cutting up a few bottles in the new year. Sure wish I had a garage. De'
I was able to get many bottles to separate after just pouring freshly boiled water from an electric kettle over the perimeter, and then pouring a strong stream of cold water from the tap - in a single cycle. Still, I can almost never get them to separate evenly, but that's nothing a sander won't solve
Thanks for the excellent tutorial. New sub here.
I like seeing the process all the way through, especially appreciate the tips on fine-tuning. Please extend the duration of time you will allow the text to remain on the screen. I had trouble reading the text completely while also paying attention to what you’ve demonstrated. Maybe give it all a column to the left, White background with black to text? Easier to read. It can stay up while that procedure is taking place and the other 2/3 of the screen. Sometimes, I wished for a little better angle.
Your video is among the ones I liked the best, and I like the way your project turned out. Thanks so much for filling these to me. I wanted to do this for a long time, But didn’t know how to get a great result!
Anyone noticed the corona bottle 😂😂
Yes 😂
They will actually separate if you pour boiling water then switch directly to cold water. I do over sink with a kettle and cold water from tap
nice video..but it honestly seems like it isn't worth the effort, lol :)
Ha ah ha. I love your chickens. LOL
Hi Holly,
What if the bottles don't crack all the way around the score? Do you keep going with the hot/cold water? I heard the cracking noise and stopped the hot/cold process, but I'm having trouble with the tapper, it's not continuing the crack like on your video. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Hi. Thanks for watching my video! Since I started spinning my bottles in the ice water (see my new note in the info section above), they seem to be breaking along the score line almost completely. After removing the bottle from the hot water, when you first dip the score line into the ice water, spin the bottle as best you can. Mine are breaking almost 99% now. But if the complete break doesn't happen, I will dip only until I get a break (even if just a short one). If I continue to dip the bottles after I get a small break line, I find that, more often than not, the break line runs up or down the bottle. So after I get a small break, I use the tapper to tap inside the bottle. You have to tap directly in front of your score line and make sure it's lined up well. Use a light overhead to see the break line, if that helps. Good luck and thanks again for watching!
+Holly Shelton Can you show me a link of where you get the backing pad for the adhesive sanding disk? I cant find it in your supplies lists under the video. Awesome Job by the way
+Josh Boggess Thanks for watching! I purchased the 3M 5-inch Disc Sander Kit from Amazon. It comes with the disc pad and a few sanding adhesive sanding discs. Here's the link - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BQWBH8
+Holly Shelton (Kápia Méra Soap Co) Sweet thank you! two more questions, how long does a disk work before it gets clogged up since its not a wet sand? and the results you got was from just the 220 grit? nothing higher?
+Josh Boggess I can usually do 2 glasses per disk. I did try a higher grit, but it seemed to remove too much glass and left the edges looking pitted. Maybe that's due to it being dry. A guy just posted a comment here who uses a great method for sanding (+EvilSpinner posted a link to his Dad's video about 2 days ago). I'm not sure how expensive his setup is, though...looks pretty simple.
Josh Boggess ??
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I have a question. Have you ever filled a glass seam back up, with any kind of glass filler?? Say i wanted to put something in a bottle and then repair the seam can I
Thank you for watching my video! I'm sorry, but I have no idea about the glass filler. Wish I could be more help! :)
Where can I get that bottle cutting tool? I'm from South Africa
really cool
Hello : ) Great video!!! when I sand my edges they turn out frosty. How do I (if possible) make them look nice and shiny again??
Hi. Thank you for watching my video! I've actually never tried to shine the frosted edges. But I have read where other people used a very very fine steel wool to buff the frosted edge to look shiny again. I think I read that they used a 0000 steel wool maybe. The next set of bottles I break into glasses, I'll try to buff the edges back shiny again. It may be a while, but I'll update the video with that info if I figure it out. Thanks again! Holly
I like the way the bottle sizzled when it went from hot water to cold, great sound effects.
Nice.. Congratulations... I am from Brazil ..
I arrived to this video after seeing the lighterfluid-cold water variant, and actually found a glass I wanna make into a... glass. Any comment on that method?
I've never tried that method. But it does look like it will produce a nice clean break almost every time. My method is probably only about 95 to 98% successful when I spin the bottle in the ice water. Sorry I can't be of more help. :) Thanks for watching.
Kapia Mera Soap Co I asume you saw the post? (If not I can link the somewhat vague steps) I dont really have the specialized tools you use, as much as a better result that would produce.
After seeing your video, Im not convinced the simpler one would work, too sudden break and may not be hot enough, thats why I ask. If you say it works, I trust your word
I meant the "lighter fluid - cold water method" in general...I've seen several videos using that method and they seem to work. But I have no experience with that method and can't say for sure. Maybe the person who made the video could help. It also depends on the bottle you're trying to break...thickness, age, flaws, etc. I just like the hot water/cold water method...that's just what works for me. Thanks and good luck!
Kapia Mera Soap Co I have not found any video detailing that method, should have googled more. This video was both the first, and the one with the most "replied to" comments, looked like the best place to ask around
I'm older than most of you I remember the ronco bottle cutter. On tv
Very nice video.
the chicken lol
where did you get that mount to attach your sander to your workbench? Is it a standard mount or something you came up with?
The drill is attached via the Dico Switch & Lock Drill Mount from Amazon. Then I use a 3M 5" disc sander bit kit (Amazon also) with adhesive sanding discs.
Holly Shelton
Thank you so much!
Where can i buy this item???
Awesome Possum :)
Amazing video and great work..If I want to sell cups like these with a trademark on them is it legal?
Thank you and thanks for watching! I'm not sure really, but there are lots of people on Etsy and eBay selling all kinds of beer bottle and wine bottle glasses.
Holly Shelton ok thanks :)
Great vid. Thanks
i like the rooster at the end.
Lovely!!I never knew you could do this
Awesome. Much appreciated.
Thank you !
what is the tapper? i have no idea where to find that
Tim Shaw Hi. The tapper is a metal rod with rubber or plastic ends that comes with the G2 (Generation Green) Bottle Cutter. I have looked everywhere for just the tapper and have even tried to make myself one, but I had no luck. The only place I've found one is the G2 Bottle Cutter kit. I got mine from Amazon...but I've seen them on eBay, as well. www.amazon.com/Diamond-Tech-Crafts-Bottle-Cutter/dp/B004ZRV3AU
Well done video.
Helpful video! Thanks for making it
+Michael Woodsdale Thanks for watching! :)
That's pretty awesome.
Thank you!
Ilove you so much😘
Vv
thank you Holly!
thank you
Great video!
Nice
Great job
cool job
sammy sullivan that's really cool ,thanks for sharing
u r therapeutic. even while doing odd things u make the environment soothing
So cool!
Thanks!!!
Hey Holly, now you can spin the bottle around while you hold the sand paper. Makes for a nice even smooth and rounded edge. Check out the kickstarter campaign at www.kickstarter.com/projects/582093084/the-bottle-bit
Love this
Thx my new project awaits ❤ hope it turns out as good as yours did
If I have to press pause every 2 seconds to read or I have missed something, no thank you. I'll go to another TH-cam channel that's easier to use. Make your video longer if needed, please.
8 min video about cutting bottles with captions is very good. Have you ever shot a video, edit the video and everything else that comes with??
If I have to repeatedly skip ahead because I was done reading ten seconds ago, no thank you. I'll go to another TH-cam (wow! excellent capitalization pedantry!) channel that's easier to use.
There I fixed it. Sincerely, someone who didn't put much effort into watching the video!