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How to Cut A Wine Bottle at Home!
Written Tutorial: Cut a Wine Bottle
SUPPLIES:
- Wine Bottle/Beer Bottle/Soda Bottle (GLASS)
- TIP: Use a thinner glass bottle for the first couple attempts until you get the hang of it.
- Acetone/Nail Polish Remover or Lighter Fluid & small dish
- TIP: Lighter Fluid burns hotter and longer, results were more consistent (bottle broke on first attempt). Acetone tends to go out quicker and required 2-3 attempts per bottle
- Cotton String/Yarn/Shoe Lace
- ICE water & Bucket– at least as tall as your bottle
- Lighter
- Scissors
- Rag
- * Well Ventilated Area!* Be smart, you’re using flammable liquid….
The Process:
- Remove labels from bottles (if you want to keep the label, just cut the bottle 2″ above the top of the label)
- Tie your STRING around the bottle
- Wrap String/Yarn around bottle AT LEAST 3 times. Make sure the string is tight.
- Secure String with a knot or a small piece of floral wire/bread tie wire. Cut off as much excess string as possible
- Slide string off of bottle
- Pour acetone or lighter fluid into your dish. (I used lighter fluid). Soak the String for at least 10 seconds
- Put string back onto the glass bottle just below where you want it to be cut. Wipe away excess fluid that may be on the bottle with a rag.
- Fill a bucket with COLD WATER & ICE. (*It will NOT work without ice water)
- Light the string on fire with a lighter and begin to spin the bottle
- Continue to rotate the bottle….
- When the flame looks like it is about to go out, quickly dunk the bottle into the bucket of ice water
- AND….. your bottle should split into 2 separate halves almost instantly. The abrupt temperature change from very hot to ice cold is what causes the break to occur.
- HERE’S THE RESULTS
Watch me cut a bottle using this method in the video at the top of this post!
Here’s what I made with my bottles!
For mini tutorials on how I made these, Check out: DIY Repurposed Wine Bottles
Use what you have around the house to decorate your bottles 
Wooden tray, sand, old jewlery 
Melt old wax down and make new candles! 
add shells to wax & decorate with jewlery 
Even bottles that don’t break “cleanly” can look pretty!
Fill with sand & put candle inside
Made this with costume jewelry, top half of bottle, & metal jar lid 
So pretty! 
hang in a sunny window
Check out DIY Repurposed Wine Bottles to see how I made these candles and votive holders!
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