And ever since my Wine Bottle Lantern DIY, I’ve been full of vin-spiration. And so I give you: classy candle covers. But… how to cut wine bottles with little to no proper glass-cutting equipment?

STEP 1: Prep your bottle. Use a sharp utility knife to cut off the base of thebottle about 1 inch above the bottom, and then wash and try the bottle thoroughly.

You might not be able to envision a time when you're lathe-less and need to cut a glass bottle in two, but when it does happen, you'll be quite happy you. Skip to content Gizmodo. Search .

Matt Richardson at Make explains how to use a bottle cutting jig to create a clean, even cut along the neck of a bottle to turn it into a drinking glass, vase, or other open container. Then he ...

As the video above shows, what you're basically doing is tying a string in 5 or 6 loops around the bottle, removing that string with the loops intact and soaking it in acetone (nail polish remover ...

Cut a ¾-inch-long horizontal slit ½ inch below each port. Use snips to cut ¾ x 3–inch L-shaped strips from a 20-ounce bottle bottom. Fit the strips in the slits, concave side up.

1. Use a hose clamp as a guide to score a clean bottle with a glass cutter. Go over the line only once. 7. Send the wick down through a hole poked in the cap, then through the plywood circle, and ...

“He cut a hole in the bottom of the bottle and we used to fill it with our homemade mixture of vinegar, dish soap and water and he would just put duct tape over the hole.

Just cut the bottom off your bottle, paint it, turn it upside down, and hang strings of colorful beads and buttons from the edges. Hang it in a tree and let the wind do its thing. 9.