Simple and easy glass wine bottle cut with Dremel
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- Опубликовано: 22 ноя 2020
- Really reliable way to cut a bottle using a Dremel, cheap diamond bits and a few bits and pieces from around the garage. Using this method I've never had the glass break or the cut go wrong. It's really easy.
Remember to keep the bottle wet and wear your mask and eye protection. If you keep the water flowing on the cut you won't make any dust or sharp bits of glass, but it's better to be safe than sorry. Although it's very unlikely, bits can shatter and the glass can shatter and potentially go into your eye, so don't take the risk and wear your goggles.
Using a flowing water system is absolutely essential. If you don't use water you'll get loads of horrible dust and the glass will overheat and shatter. I've tried using sponges but you don't get enough flow or consistency, and you spend your time worrying about whether it is wet enough.
Don't push too hard, let the tool do the work. You should hardly put any pressure on the bottle with the bit - if the tool starts to slow down a lot then you are pushing too hard. The first cut all the way round should just be to gently score the bottle. This guides the water into the cut, and guides the tool as you keep going round. This means you can take a break and then carry on where you left off.
When you finally get through the glass it'll feel like pushing a knife into soap. When that happens just back off a bit and continue with a constant shallow cut all the way around for a couple more rotations until the bottle falls into two pieces.
The bits I use are cheap diamond coated bits from Ebay. Using a diamond bit is essential, if you use any other type then they will wear away too quickly, overheat, shatter or not cut very well. Buy the cheapest ones you can find and you'll be fine.
My wife uses the cut bottles to make lovely plant pots, you can see them here. / queensofgreendesign
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This is what I was looking for. No weird tricks with string and wire and heat...just cutting a clean edge. Thanks buddy. I'll be building myself something like you have tomorrow. 👍
This is one of the most satisfying and beautiful ghetto set ups ever.
Yeah I can do this !
@@farrierette5216 Anyone can! Good luck!
Keep it simple, and if you have to buy it, buy it cheap!
Great rig! The copper in the tube is my favorite.
water and electricity so close together? ideal combination... but, that little detail put aside, thanks for posting
Excellent tutorial. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
240 volts hand held device and water. What could possibly go wrong?
Simple setup
Easy to operate
Perfect product and not much mess and time to finish it off
Thank you Peter
Love the water system!,,,,
Great instruction!! Very do-able.
What a great method !I don't have luck with bottle cutters
I love the water dripping over the Dremel 😊
Health and safety be damned, this is what it's all about, men in sheds doing excellent things.
Too right. I was wearing Crocs anyway, I'm sure the rubber would have had a mild insulating effect.
@@peters2620😂
Thank you!
Good video. I wish I had found your video sooner. I’ve waited over a year but got a dremel. For £35 . I play slide guitar and want to make my own slides. Cheers for this, I’m a butcher by trade so would have never guessed to use running water. Would have got same rotary tool as you as well.
Good luck with it!
@@peters2620 it’s got to be cheaper than buying them. I paid £30 for the best one I have . So in two slides time I’ve broke even. If I was a capable joiner, I would be making synthesiser stands and cases, people pay silly money for a wooden box for a machine.
Thanks - great setup and presentation. Which model of Proxxon do you use?
Hello. I use a Proxxon 28472 FBS 240/E with cheap generic diamond wheels from Ebay.
Thanks..
Great tips cheers 👍 what did you use the bottle for in the end?
My wife used them for plant pots. She's the creative brains on the endeavour, I just use the tools!
Be carefull with the roterytool and that water.
Just saying!
Thanks for the video i know now how to cut glas for my HPS Lamp to ventilate trough it to reduce heat in my growtent.
Many thanks.
Cut first, smoke later
Brilliant! In the video, it looks like the constant water flow may be seeping underneath the Proxxon tool. Please, are you not worried about the water getting into the tool and creating an electrical shock? Thank you- Christine from West Virginia-USA
It's not a big concern. I'm sure a few drops get in but I've never had any problems. Thanks.
There is little risk of either him getting shocked or the proxxon being damaged. Truly next to zero risk of him being shocked since the shell of the proxxon is made of an insulating plastic. Even if the coil shorted from the water, since the shell of the proxxon isn't metal or acting as ground, electric shock would not harm the good chap.
Most modern motor coils are made from enameled copper wire. Not only does the enamel act as a thin film insulator, preventing the possibilities of a short from a small metal shaving or something similar getting caught up in it. But this enamel is also hydrophobic, so a short from water on the coil is also very unlikely.
The motor coil might overheat easier if water getting on it was prolonged and excessive.
The one thing I'd do differently for safety is wear a proper respirator instead of a mask. He showed an n95 mask, which can filter particles down to 5 micrometers successfully. However, a diamond cutter on glass can create particles down to about 300 nanometers (20 times smaller than the 5 microns an n95 mask can filter)
The use of a coolant stream (water) vastly reduces how many of these nanoparticles are airborne. So perhaps if you needed to cut a bottle just once, an n95 mask might suffice. But if this became a tool you were using even semi-regularly, I'd strongly recommend a respirator.
Cheers.
@@firSound Excellent observations! Many thanks for taking the time to write them.
Thank you for asking the question I had in my mind!
@@peters2620 Of course! Many thanks for providing the easily repeatable clever technique.
Your technique is more accessible, but NightHawkInLight posted a DIY sandblaster for cutting glass back in April. It's really low budget and provided amazing results. Definitely no need for that technique for wine bottles. I have no affiliation, just another really good clever technique. I'd link it, but don't want to be flagged as spam.
Cheers
Don't forget....you are using an ELECTRICAL tool near water. It's like using a hairdryer in the bathtub. Better be using a GFCI outlet
Yea and should probably put that on a slight slope so the water flows away from the Dremel. Don't just let it sit in a puddle of water like this guy did lol
Great video! I have two questions.
1. It looks like you cut with the diamond wheel in a slight angle. Is it so, or does it just look like it in the video?
2. What if you want to cut a bottle close to the bottom of it, you just turn it the other way around?
1. I do hold it at a slight angle, but that's just what I find comfortable. You can cut any way which works for you.
2. Yes, turn it the other way round. The key thing is ensuring you can spin the bottle as you turn it, it doesn't matter which way round it is.
Good luck!
Have you tried cutting old decanters, or old liqueur bottles? Should the water be luke warm, or cold, to minimise the risk of cracking. Great video, thanks.
You can cut anything glass this way. Water temperature doesn't matter I don't think - I use luke warm. Cracking happens if you push too hard and the glass next to the disc gets too hot.
Will something like this work for an oval bottle like the old stdeas?yle Almaden wine bottle? It is filled with pennies and I don't know how to get them out. Any ideas?
Yes should work fine.
How would you do this if you wanted an angled cut so that the top of the bottle is a sloped opening?
Once you've cut it with the cutting wheel you could go round again with a grinding stone bit to change the cut angle I suppose? You can also change the cut angle with the cutting wheel, but it would be harder I think.
@@peters2620 Thanks for the info. Unfortunately it's going to be a fairly steep angle (35° to 45°). I'll play with it and it'll either work or it'll be a contribution to glass recycling. Lol
Can you use your dremel to sand the edges?
Yes, the diamond wheel is good for tidying it up, then I use some wet and dry
Can you cut from the top to bottom in half,??
Yes you could, but it would be difficult to keep the line exactly straight. You'd need to mark a line in sharpie on the bottle or use a piece of wood as a guide
Ya thought i was going to do a quick littlw touch up spot on one of my bottles and wasmt thinking about saftey somw dumb reason, as i was dremeling away, using juat a cup of water that i was splashing up onto my glass and dremel head, totally had a tiny peice of glass fly up into my eye, luckily ive got fairly thick eye lashes and the pieces was just barley hanging into my eye but mostley on my eyelash so iw as able to pull it out, off, talk about learning a lesson and close calls, im ocd about saftet especially with my eyes. Ide had a big scare like 10 years ago where ide had a bacterial infection in my eye but no eye doctors could see anything wrong, asnt until one specialist did blood work on me and then saw where the infection was in my eye, it was beyond microscopic, not sure hoe itd even happened, they said it could of traveled there through some sort of cut on skin surface and wemt through blood stream to my eye, which is flipping very scary cus that means it eas basically heading towards my brain. Anyways, when that specialist saw what it was i was instantly transported to the hospital and put on heavy duty iv antibiotics, was in hospital for about 3 days treating it then went homw ans still was having to go in for weekly eye treatments, i almost lost mt vision and itd of been in both eyes because itd of transfered they said if its not been caught when the doctor did finslly find what eas wrong. It just felt like a really irritating eyelash in my eye but i coupdnt see anything, i acually tried to ignore it for weeks till i couldnt take it anymore..but still even then i ended up having to go to like 3 different doctors, all who kept saying there wasnt anything in my eye and itll go away on its on eventually...i refused to listen being the stubborn me i am, i knew my body i know my eyes and i knew something wasnt right with my eye. Thank god i found the one doctor who was just as determined as i was to keep looking and finding what it was. So ya, value those eyes people, you never know, and even if its just one little inch spot your cutting, where those googles or even a pair of sun glasses at very least.
I think it would be wise to wear safety goggles and gloves. I have used this method quite a number of times and seen an odd bottle shatter for no reason at all especially beer bottles.
Proxxon is exactly what you said, better than Dremel and cheaper.
Yeah, good German quality. I've no idea why people use Dremel. You might as well pay £10 for a Chinese knock-off.
That's an awful lot of water pooling next to an electrical tool. You should use a dremel extension to separate them.
I might put a drain under it next time. I'm too tight to buy an extension!
you might get electric shock from the water hitting the inside of the dremel. be carefull!
I never heard of a waterproof Dremel. You have water flowing everywhere.
Ничччего не вкурил, блин!!! Неужели трудно по-нормальному, по человечески разговаривать? Ну, вот что можно понять из этого гундосанья? Абду- абды суин-перды... кулум- булум ы-ы, муны. Дизлайк однозначно. Учись базарить по - людски, Мурзик!!!
Are you still alive? Water and electronics DO NOT MIX! Could be shocking situation!!!
Still alive.
Nice result. But very reckless. Water and electricity are never a good idea. Place your jig at a slight angle so that the water runs away from the machine.
Thanks for the suggestion anyway.