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How to cut a glass bottle with a thread. Master class: how to cut a bottle with a thread How to cut a glass bottle evenly

Many people know that old bottles can always be adapted, having previously “recycled” them a little, for useful things for the home. But not many people are aware of how easy it is, because they have no idea how to cut off a part of a glass bottle without a special machine, and even in a matter of minutes. At the same time, cutting off the neck of a beer bottle, you will get 2 excellent and original beer glasses: the lower part will go like a man's, the top one - like a woman's; by removing the top of a wine bottle or champagne bottle, you can later use the bottom as a flower vase, and the top again as a stemmed glass. In the same way, the lower part of a sufficiently spacious bottle can be converted into a lamp. Well, as the process description below demonstrates, cutting glass is surprisingly easy, and you can always apply this process to any glass object. It is also a safe and practical way to cut glass.

Undoubtedly, it is also a funny and amazing trick that is worth demonstrating in a company or at a party. Shocked faces will be your reward, as most have never seen anything like it before.

You will need:
- lighter fluid, or nail polish remover, or, for example, kerosene;
- a long and relatively strong piece of thread;
- bowl / basin with cold water, voluminous enough to accommodate the bottle completely in length and height;
- protective glasses;
- lighter / matches or something similar of your choice;
- spoon (optional)
- a file with a diamond coating or fine-grained good sandpaper - to refine the edges of cut glass.

1. Soak the floss for several minutes in lighter fluid or nail polish remover (or kerosene). The length of the thread can always be pre-measured on the bottle.

2. Mark a straight cut line on the bottle with a felt-tip pen if you are cutting the bottle not just for fun, but for a vase or other decorative purpose. Otherwise, skip this step.
Tie the soaked thread in a few (2-3) turns around the bottle along the line where you want to cut the glass. Naturally, it is necessary to wrap and tie tightly! But do not make a big knot so that the cut off part turns out to be even in the end, and an oval does not form under the knot after burning the thread. And a few turns of the thread should not create a thick strip.

3. Put on safety goggles. Holding the bottle over a flame-proof surface, light the thread. So that the thread on one side does not finish burning when it just starts burning on the other, you can gently and quickly set fire to several sides at once, but in no case do not hold the lighter / match by itself for a long time at some part of the bottle. Let the thread burn out completely - keep the bottle at a safe distance until the thread burns out on its own completely (the fire will also “go away” by itself).

4. Then immediately place the bottle in cold water in a bowl/basin - dip completely and hold the bottle in your hands. A sharp change in temperature will cause the glass to crack exactly along the line of burning of the thread: that is why the layer of thread on the bottle should not be wide!

5. Gently pat the glass top spoons - along the line where the burning thread wrapped around the bottle was, if the glass did not break by itself. It is better to keep a spoon immediately at hand so as not to miss the moment.

6. Smooth out any ridges on the edges of the bottle cuts you want with a diamond file/fine sandpaper. For this part of the process, make sure the glass is wet and slippery enough, otherwise there will be problems with the diamond file.

A warning: Make sure you have everything you need to put out the fire (fire extinguisher, plenty of water, thick cloth that does not burn well, such as a blanket made of certain materials) when you work with the bottle - in case there are problems. Consider also wearing protective gloves. And remember that children and teenagers under 18, as well as people "under the hood" are better off not doing such things, because they are likely to neglect security measures.

Add-ons:

- Always remember that it is not at all necessary to “cut” in a straight line. The thread can be wound around the oval at an angle or even fixed with adhesive tape (but just don’t glue the tape in the way the thread burns, glue where the burning should end!) in any other angle, the main thing is to observe the condition of the thread to fit snugly to the glass;

- The same can be done with any other glass thing, for example, with glass panels, but in this case both sides of the panel must be heated at the same time.

Workshop on cutting a bottle with a thread

Everyone is well aware that many useful and original things can be made from unnecessary glass bottles with your own hands. However, not everyone knows how easy it is, because many have no idea how to cut off part of the bottle without a glass cutter. We offer you a master class on how to cut a glass bottle with a regular thread quickly and easily at home without using a special tool.

In order to cut a glass bottle we need:

  • A piece of ordinary cotton thread.
  • Acetone or alcohol.
  • Cold water container.
  • Matches or lighter.

Thread cutting order

Step 1

Cotton thread soaked in acetone

We mark with a marker the line along which you want to cut the bottle. Wet the thread in acetone and wind it several times along the intended line. We tie the rope and cut off its ends.

Tie the thread tightly

Trim the ends of the thread

Step 2

Holding the bottle in a horizontal position over a container of water, set fire to the thread. In this case, the bottle must be rotated to ensure uniform heating.

We set fire to the thread

Step 3

As soon as the thread burns out, immediately dip the bottle into a container of cold water. From a sharp temperature drop, the glass itself will crack along the line where the rope was.

Dip the bottle in very cold water

Step 4

Separate the two parts of the bottle with your hands

On the last step it remains only to process the edge with an emery or file. Further, from the resulting glass, you can make an original candlestick or a flower vase, decorating the product to your own taste, in general, experiment!

Sanding the cut with sandpaper

Why throw away glass bottles when you can make delicious ones out of them. decor elements that will look chic in any interior? If you think that cutting a bottle is very difficult and even dangerous, you are mistaken. There are several simple ways to help you do it safely so you can create your little masterpiece.

How to cut a glass bottle

This video shows 2 ways to cut glass. One of them uses glass cutter, and for the other you only need hot and cold water!

By cutting the bottle into 2 parts, you can make anything from it: from a candlestick or a glass to a hanger for outerwear. The main thing is to have a rich imagination!

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Hello dear readers! The decor of glass bottles has been quite popular lately, by the way, we have already considered this topic in the review "", and since many are interested in the question of how to cut a glass bottle at home, without using a glass cutter, I want to dedicate today's master class simple but interesting way cutting bottles with a thread ...

In this connection, the topic of this master class is “How to cut a bottle with a thread - nothing complicated!”.

For work we need:

  1. Glass bottle;
  2. Woolen threads;
  3. Solvent (you can kerosene, alcohol, cologne, acetone);
  4. Scissors or stationery knife;
  5. Gloves (will protect the skin of the hands from exposure to the solvent);
  6. Lighter or matches;
  7. To protect the eyes, just in case, goggles (in fact, there are no fragments, but caution is never superfluous);
  8. Deep basin filled with cold water.



So, how to cut a bottle with a thread? We take a woolen thread, measure and cut it in such a way that it is enough for 3-4 turns of the bottle.

We immerse the measured and cut thread in the solvent, and immediately wrap the bottle in the place where it is planned to make an “incision”. You can simply wrap the thread or tie it in a knot, in this master class I just wrapped it.



After that, we set fire to this thread with matches or a lighter, and it is better to keep the bottle in an inclined position - strictly horizontally (parallel to the ground), gently scrolling around the axis.

The fire will burn for about 30-40 seconds, as soon as the lit thread goes out - quickly lower the bottle into the prepared basin filled with cold water.


Next, the characteristic sound of cracked glass will be heard, and the bottle will instantly split into two parts. This type of glass cutting is based on a rapid change in temperature, we all know from the lessons of physics that glass expands when heated, and narrows when cooled, respectively, with a sharp change in temperature, a kind of destruction of glass occurs and it simply cracks!