Today, months after I made my first Carlsmug, I put my glass bottle cutter to good use. I made a few goblets, a couple of small and large tumblers and a terrarium. Here are a few pictures and some learnings:
Presenting all the goblets. They are nothing like the ones people in Game of Thrones drink from but that’s what they are. I am yet to sandpaper them and wash away the soot. If one was to drink from them right now, they would know exactly how Joffrey felt moments before he croaked.
This one in particular is my favourite. It was the cleanest cut of the day. It stands tall and confident, like a royal goblet.
It is not that I don’t like the others. It’s just that some of their bases need to be sanded carefully so that they stop wobbling.
Tuborg bottles make fantastic tumblers. So do Kingfisher Ultra Max. They shouldn’t be tumbling too much though. That will be injurious to their health.
The clear Smirnoff bottle here will make a great terrarium.
Now the learnings.
Like you cannot control the way bamboo grows, you cannot control the way glass will crack. It has a mind of its own. All you can do is scour it, heat it, then cool it and pray for it to clicnk into two separate pieces as neatly as possible. The rest can be sandpapered into perfection. The trick is to not leave any jarring glass ends, for obvious reasons. Here is a picture of all the casualties.
Some of them cracked like the bottle Bollywood heroines would use to threaten villains with rape on their mind.
Some of them cracked like the bottle Bollywood heroines would use to threaten villains with rape on their mind.
Beer bottles are the easiest to crack. 100 Pipers is the toughest bottle to crack. Check out this guy, standing strong and uncracked even after one round of scouring and multiple rounds of heat and cold torture treatment.
And I couldn’t...just couldn’t get myself to cut this gorgeous bottle!
So yes. I’ve had a funglasstic weekend. Must go wash the soot off my hands and clear the kitchen counter before this fat thing walks all over the glass crumbs.
P.S: Many thanks to Deepak Nair, Anita Rane, Sushant Ajnikar and Rochelle Noronha for the many bottles that made this experiment possible.
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