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So you've just enjoyed a nice wine, but what do you do with
the bottle? Toss it? Recycle it? It's made of pretty solid
glass,
though, and it seems such a shame to waste it. What if you
could put it to some other purpose?
Aha! Just rinse it out, remove the label, and put it into the
Wine
Glasser. This handy device acts as a sort of lathe,
scoring the bottle continuously around the circumference
until
the top is easy to break off by hand. Then you put the
resulting piece back into the unit, where the lip is ground
smooth, producing a cool, unique drinking glass.
Making drinking glasses from wine bottles has been around for years, and while it is relatively easy to cut a bottle...
http://www.instruct...-from-Wine-Bottles/
[pocmloc, Jul 03 2013]
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Not some sign of gentrification in Glasgow as I had thought |
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As per [pocmloc]'s link, the business of cutting
bottles for reuse has been around for a long time.
I guess the mechanization is new. On the other
hand, would you buy a $200 piece of equipment in
order to make as many rather tacky drinking
glasses as you could use? |
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In the UK, Ronco (I believe) hit the right price
point at around £4.99 for a glass cutter on an arm
that you put in the bottle neck and used to score
around the bottle. |
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//As per [pocmloc]'s link, the business of cutting
bottles for reuse has been around for a long time. I
guess the mechanization is new.// |
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Yeah, I looked it up after I posted the idea, and
discovered people had already been doing this
manually. I was hoping nobody would be so impolite
as to point that out. |
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//On the other hand, would you buy a $200 piece of
equipment in order to make as many rather tacky
drinking glasses as you could use?// |
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Would I? No. Would someone? Well, I dunno—have
you ever looked through a SkyMall catalog? |
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Okay, this idea sucks, I admit it. Somehow it
seemed better at the time it occurred to me while I
was holding a newly empty bottle of wine. |
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// Somehow it seemed better at the time it
occurred to me while I was holding a newly empty
bottle of wine.// We've all made major life
choices that way. |
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How this might work, just possibly, is as a novelty
machine - like those machines that flatten your 1p
coin and turn it into a souvenir medallion. On the
other hand, it would be banned on the grounds
that (a) it encouraged people to drink wine (b) it
encouraged people to carry potentially lethal
empty bottles around (c) the drinking glasses it
made, if dropped and broken could cause injury. |
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The world is becoming too safe, and we are
gradually regressing. |
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ungainly, uncomfortable, relentlessly cheap, and easily chipped around the rim because the glass is essentially case hardened. |
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