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Wine Glasser

Reuse your booze byproducts
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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.

ytk, Jul 03 2013

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/
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       Not some sign of gentrification in Glasgow as I had thought
not_morrison_rm, Jul 03 2013
  

       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?   

       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.
MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 03 2013
  

       //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.//   

       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.   

       //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?//   

       Would I? No. Would someone? Well, I dunno—have you ever looked through a SkyMall catalog?   

       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.
ytk, Jul 03 2013
  

       // 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.   

       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.   

       The world is becoming too safe, and we are gradually regressing.
MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 03 2013
  

       ungainly, uncomfortable, relentlessly cheap, and easily chipped around the rim because the glass is essentially case hardened.
WcW, Jul 04 2013
  
      
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