bottle to vase:suggestions?

In My Humble Opinion
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Not sure if this is the right forum. Could go anywhere (ok maybe not GD).

But…I love blue glass. It’s so beautiful. And I’ve been tempted by some water bottles. But hey. They look like water bottles. So I rejected them.

But I was just working at my church (UU) fund raising sale and found this bottle that I couldn’t pass up. Teardrop shaped. Absolutly beatiful. 50 cents.

But it still has the screwtop top that bottles have.

I’m sure there are people who would cut it off with some sort of glass cutting cool thing, but it would probably cost more than the bottle/vase. And would be more complicated in my complicated life…I got it to make the hotel room look more human, let’s just leave it at that.

Soooooo…I’m just wondering if anyone had a clever idea for de-bottling my vase. I was thinking about wax…

Thanks

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Back in the 70’s they made a device for cutting off bottles. I think it was a wire you wrapped around the bottle, heated, and then somehow broke off the top. Try Ebay.

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Back in the 70’s they made a device for cutting off bottles. I think it was a wire you wrapped around the bottle, heated, and then somehow broke off the top. Try Ebay.

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Interesting. Although given me I’ll probably find a way to garrot myself.

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Ask at a TrueValue or Ace Hardware store. They will have things like cutting wires that will work. They might even offer to cut it for you.

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I like colored glass also, and keep a fair amount in south-facing windows. I’ve got a bunch of bottles that I just leave alone – if it’s empty it looks like a bottle, and if it’s got flowers in it it looks like a vase – or a bottle with flowers in it. Either way – nice shape, nice color, who cares what the top half inch of the neck looks like?

I’m not seeing the problem here.

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Well…there isn’t one really. It looks pretty cool now. I put a cutting in from another plant. Rather elegant. So pretty nice now…

But somehow the sinuous lines of the bottle are disrupted by the bumpy screwtop top.
a 10 u us, you think they’d do it? What would they charge?

Thanks

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here is an ebay listing for what you need:

Bottle cutter

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I’ve done it with an ordinary cheapo glass cutter. Basically, you score it, heat it, break it, and smooth it. I found the instructions online somewhere. The trick is to make sure the score line is even around the bottle. You can build a jig or just improvise something.

Practice on a few bottles before you do your pretty one.