Mr Cheap Shot

[Onoff]

Having rediscovered spirits after a 35 year hiatus I haven't any shot glasses or whatever you are supposed to drink flavoured vodka out of. Tumbler I guess, presuming with ice? Anyway, me being Mr Cheapseats:

Mmmm, walnut.....



Seemed apt for nut vodka:



I treated myself to a bottle cutter (wanted one since I was a kid). At £9.99 I probably could have bought some proper shot glasses but that's not the point! (Both this and the previous hazelnut vodka were presents anyway so I've not had to spend out there).



This is the 3rd "bottle" I've attempted, 1st two were beer bottles and they didn't go well. This peanut butter jar is thicker glass. It isn't perfect and didn't break cleanly around the score line with the boiling water/cold water poured over it 3 times. The pump pliers came into play!



I've no big sheets of wet and dry so a 9" stone disc and some Cif is serving as a grinding surface for now. A way to go yet but it has promise!



Not sure what would get that edge down quicker?

 

[500e]

Easier to drink it out of the bottle seen a fair few Russians do it

 

[TechnicAl]

Ive got a similar cutter.......the problem is that 90% of bottles arent round

 

[Onoff]

Still needs some work around the rim. The flat diamond files I use for tiling saw some use as flat "stones". Sitting here enjoying the fruits of my labour. So worth it!





Sláinte is táinte!

 

[Cobbler]

You can cut bottles with a piece of string tied around, soak in meths & light. When the glass is hot drop in cold water, it will ..... or should crack around the string line. I did it as a child, but not tried it since.

 

[Wightsparks]

Or a bit of resistance wire set to extra boost..

 

[badabec]

Or go to Ikea 25p each or The Range £1 each.

 

[eddie49]

Cutting bottles: pour engine oil into the bottle to just below the level required for the cut, then dip a red-hot poker into the oil.

 

[a111r]

Having insufficient china or glass drinking vessels is a good thing, in my book.

In our cupboard, the wife sees fit to store 3 times more than we need / use, so they're staked precariously 3 high.

The nice and not cheap ones, used often by me, are thus on top. Of all the sentimental relics; the naff presents, the faded ex-job related one, the crass 'best grandma' nonsense, etc.
So the good but unstable, have a short life, when they hit the quartz work top below.

Being married is not that easy quite a lot of the time, so it's not a top priority all things considered. It's a mug's game?

 

[Olderisbetter]

We used to do this when i was young but the glass from a bottle or jam jar is weak compared to a real tumbler

 

[slim_boy_fat]

It's a mug's game?

But decent drink never tastes the same from a mug as it does from a crystal tumbler....coat >>door.

 

[zx9]

Forty odd years ago I had a bottle cutting kit which consisted of a rig to hold a regular glass cutter which rested in the bottle neck to score around the bottle, the second part of the kit was a weight on a metal rod again suspended on the neck but this time inside the bottle. You would use the weight to tap around the score line.
I remember the demonstrator at Harrogate show doing all sorts of bottles including the flattened 'Matius Rose' and triangular whisky bottles but I could only get traditional wine bottles to work correctly.
Going by the amount of them I sent for recycling when I cleared Dad's house I must have done a lot of them, here is one of the ones that I kept.

engraved with a vibrating engraver, the sort that look like a tattoo machine.

 

[armalites]

I remember seeing bottle cutters at the shows when I was a kid, I bought one a few years back never had much success. That one looks different to mine. I did try on a wet diamond tile cutter but it splintered the glass.

Sounds like I saw/bought the same one as @zx9

I like the idea of free quirky glasses, I've seen it small family cafes and restuarants in USA where they serve water in jam jars.

 

[mdr]

 

[Onoff]

We used to do this when i was young but the glass from a bottle or jam jar is weak compared to a real tumbler

Certainly the modern beer / wine bottles seem to be thinner glass. The two I tried before the successful one failed. The peanut butter jar I used was pretty thick. A champagne type bottle I guess might be similarly heavy walled. Getting the labels off first seems to help. Imagine it alters the surface tension of the glass. In the old days you could soak them off but now some are really stuck on.

 

[Stueeee]

I remember the demonstrator at Harrogate show doing all sorts of bottles including the flattened 'Matius Rose' and triangular whisky bottles but I could only get traditional wine bottles to work correctly.

Sounds just about right for most stuff demonstrated at shows, miracle drill bits, everlasting sanding discs and so on...

When I was really young I saw (and then bought) a small paint sprayer being demonstrated; this was basically a brass nozzle fitted on the top of a glass jar. This thing was apparently being powered by the demonstrator using a car foot pump. The spray finish he was achieving on various bits was fantastic. Of course when It tried my new purchase at home, the thing was alternately spitting and then blurting out paint. Later, when I connected it up to a compressor scavenged out of a dumped domestic fridge it really worked rather well, probably similar to something the demonstrator may have had hidden under the table at the show.

 

[redlig]

Seems like the latest " wonder" tool is the power washer that doesn't need any power input . So basically the same as putting your finger over the end of the pipe. Just like magic!!

 

[bricol]

Having insufficient china or glass drinking vessels is a good thing, in my book.

In our cupboard, the wife sees fit to store 3 times more than we need / use, so they're staked precariously 3 high.

The nice and not cheap ones, used often by me, are thus on top. Of all the sentimental relics; the naff presents, the faded ex-job related one, the crass 'best grandma' nonsense, etc.
So the good but unstable, have a short life, when they hit the quartz work top below.

Being married is not that easy quite a lot of the time, so it's not a top priority all things considered. It's a mug's game?

Easy fixes - chuck the crap or add more shelves - piece of suitable laminate, drill some holes, shove in some shelf supports - job done. Cup/glass cupboard in our kitchen has several more shelves than usual.

 

[Cobbler]

Sounds just about right for most stuff demonstrated at shows, miracle drill bits, everlasting sanding discs and so on...

When I was really young I saw (and then bought) a small paint sprayer being demonstrated; this was basically a brass nozzle fitted on the top of a glass jar. This thing was apparently being powered by the demonstrator using a car foot pump. The spray finish he was achieving on various bits was fantastic. Of course when It tried my new purchase at home, the thing was alternately spitting and then blurting out paint. Later, when I connected it up to a compressor scavenged out of a dumped domestic fridge it really worked rather well, probably similar to something the demonstrator may have had hidden under the table at the show.

I had one of those, bought at a show, it came with a plug hole tyre inflator to power it though. I had the tyre inflator for years, kept it in the car, it worked surprisingly well.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

probably similar to something the demonstrator may have had hidden under the table at the show.

Nah, you'd have heard it. He'd just developed a suitably regular rhythm on the pump, most likely in time with "I MUST sell this if I'm to eat tonight".....