Hello all! I have an ever growing collection of glass bottles (mostly from sodas or Kinkys) that i have that I plan to take to recycling. I was wondering if anyone would like some or all of them to do what you please with? Its mostly clear glass with a few brown and green in the mix. I also have some liquor bottles I’ve been hoarding for nefarious crafting purposes, but I don’t know if I’ll ever actually get around to that.
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We can show you how to melt them and make cool stuff out of them
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Soda bottles are too small to be worked, really. I’d just recycle them. Especially the clear glass ones.
One “issue” in trying to use bottle glass in fusing is they aren’t one specific COE. Every time they make a new batch of bottles the COE is enough different that they will crack if fused together.
Yeah, if you want to bring them in to one of the bottle slumping classes, you are welcome to do that.
However, we’re pretty well stocked on soda-bottle size bottles.
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id like that
could any of them ever be used to make simple beads?
Probably. You’d have to keep each bottle’s glass separate from any other glass.
Years ago I knew people who made beads from enamel chunks. They found that the propane torches weren’t hot enough to melt bottle glass. We do have the torches to melt borosilicate, which takes a lot more heat.
Megan and crew were making beads from COE 104 glass with MAPP glass (or they were). Borosilicate is somewhere down around COE 30. Most bottle/window glass is in the 80’s. It would need more heat than the 104, but not as much as the boro.
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cool thanks
We’ve also been playing a bit with breaking them and putting them into molds. It’s creating some fun shapes, but you will be stuck with the single color.
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That’s fine 