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Otoe Bow:
Steve. Those are awesome. What kind of glass is the red one? Also, do you generally use the bottom of a glass bottle, since it's the thickest part?
Otoe
Hillbilly:
Shannon, I plead the fifth >:D ;D Otoe, that's some slag glass, I got a "boulder" of it at a rock shop a couple years ago. Yep, the bottom is the part to use. Not only is it thicker, it's also less curved. If you drop a couple 16d nails in a bottle, points down, hold your thumb over the top and shake it up and down, it'll usually pop the bottom of the bottle off almost perfectly.
Otoe Bow:
Thanks for the nail explanation. I read the link on the beer bottle point (after I asked the question about the bottom) but was having a hard time understanding the concept of knocking off the bottom with nails. :o Makes sense now.
Like I said, this kind of thing has opened up a whole new world for me. We live on part of the old original family homestead of land that was opened up in the land run back in the late 1800's. There's tons of old glass (white, green, lime green everywhere, every gully was a land fill :( , ) but now I see all of that in a whole new light. :D . Treasure, to trash, to treasure.
Otoe
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