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get a coricidin bottle....antiques stores about 10 bucks
Hey Isaac, i have made thousands of glass slides. Wine bottles usually work great, the thicker, and less tapered or flared the better. Certain Port bottles are excellent as well as cognac bottles. One problem with wine bottles especially is that once you find a vinyard bottle you like they will change the bottle design on you. I would definitley suggest picking up a Harveys Bristol Cream bottle. This makes one beautiful and very killer slide.
I have seen many methods of cutting the bottles. I always use small wet band saw with a diamond blade. Turning the bottle and cutting it all the way through. Its not the fastest approach to cutting. But there is very minimal chipping, it leaves a nice clean cut. This will save you lots of time shaping, grinding and polishing. The small wet band saw method is by far the safest method as well.
Greg Miller said:Hey Isaac, i have made thousands of glass slides. Wine bottles usually work great, the thicker, and less tapered or flared the better. Certain Port bottles are excellent as well as cognac bottles. One problem with wine bottles especially is that once you find a vinyard bottle you like they will change the bottle design on you. I would definitley suggest picking up a Harveys Bristol Cream bottle. This makes one beautiful and very killer slide.
I have seen many methods of cutting the bottles. I always use small wet band saw with a diamond blade. Turning the bottle and cutting it all the way through. Its not the fastest approach to cutting. But there is very minimal chipping, it leaves a nice clean cut. This will save you lots of time shaping, grinding and polishing. The small wet band saw method is by far the safest method as well.
Hey, thanks for the tips! Yeah, I chose a really nice little straight necked wine bottle, and gave it a shot las week end. I started cutting the neck off the bottle with a dremel using a cut off wheel, but it was taking so long I got hasty and tried to break it like I'd seen done in a few how to vids on YouTube. Total disaster! It' silly because I'm an archaeologist, and I can flintknap really well to make stone tools (out of obsidian and flint which are basically natural glass), so you'd think I'd be able to direct a good breaking blow to a wine bottle!!!! :)
I'll get another bottle and try again, perhaps a nice port or cognac! This time, I'll go all the way with the dremel!
And BTW, as an aside, I'm not going the coricidin bottle route because I need a stubby slide for the way I play. About 3 to 3.5 cm is perfect. Just so it fits from the tip of my finger up to my second knuckle (I use my middle finger). Longer slides really cramp my finger motions!
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