bottles

How-To: Bottle Cutting

With a bottle cutting jig, you can easily recycle your used glass bottles into reusable drinking glasses or flower vases. After scoring the glass with the jig, there are a few different ways to make a clean break. In this video, I show how to do this using a candle flame and a piece of […]

Antique bottle collecting

Antique bottle collecting

Antique bottles have always fascinated me. Here’s an amazing site with pretty much everything you need to know about identifying and dating “historic bottles.” The site is maintained by the Bureau of Land Management. Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website More: More sea glass hunting The sea glass of summer HOW TO – Make […]

Milk-truck music

Milk-truck music

Scaling up from the usual MIDI-to-solenoid designs – the Tonefloat milk/music delivery team plays the bottles while mobile. Originally commissioned by Walk the Plank for the inaugural and very first Manchester Art Car Parade, the ‘People’s Prize’ winner >> tonefloat