It took something to cut off a couple of bottoms from the bottle. Cut simply with a glass cutter, and even exactly just not realistic. I decided to assemble a design for even sections.
The design is assembled in a short period of time and of course do it yourself.
For the construction we need:
- glass cutter;
- wooden blocks;
- a basis from a chipboard;
- self-tapping screws;
- M6 bolts;
- 6 mm washers;
- 6 mm nuts.
First, try on our bars for attaching a glass cutter.
Mark the basis for all the bars. We drill holes.
In the role of the basis, I have rounds left over from some homemade or something else. I don’t remember it myself. You can cut any design, it does not really matter. The main thing is that our bottle, with its greater happiness, is placed on our billet.
We drill a hole for a glass cutter exactly in the middle of the bars. It turned out such a collar. The hole should be smaller in diameter than the glass cutter handle. Otherwise, the glass cutter will hang and cut the bottle will not work.
Press the glass cutter and fasten to the base with long screws. At first I thought to fasten it to the studs, but did not find it and screwed it onto the screws.
I installed another bar under the bottom, with it it is more convenient to cut the bottle.
Press the locking bar securely. I made another hole to adjust the cut line.
All screws and screws set flush. You can not do this, but then you need stable legs.
The bottle that we will cut must first be washed and dried.
You need to cut the bottle with gloves, since the glass chips fly off. After scrolling several circles, we proceed to the procedure for separating the bottom. It is also possible to make glass rings.
We put the bottle in a tall bowl and pour boiling water above the cut. We are waiting for some time. During this time we prepare a vessel with cold water. We take our bottle out of hot water and dip it in cold water. A crack is heard and the bottle bursts along the cut line.
Next, take a rag and turn the bottom and neck in different directions. The bottom separates easily. The cut line was very smooth.It is possible to process the edges of the cut with an emery stone, thereby we exclude the possibility of a cut on the cut part.
At first, it’s not the first time to separate the parts of the bottle. It happened to me from the third or even the fourth, but then everything turns out much more often.
Here we have got such a design. On it you can cut a small jar, but I needed only the bottoms of dark glass. The necks can be used as shades for fixtures or something else.
A more detailed production of this device can be seen in the video.