That’s how you make a glass bottle neck slide.. now if you’ll excuse me I’m headed to the er to stitch this finger up 😂. Good information and funny dry humor it’s a win win
… years later, I’m 24 now. because of this video, my 13 year old self made so many slides. I made the beautiful music. Thank you sir. Your video worked for me. 💙
Writes XNA, drinks & plays slide blues - my kind of developer :) - I never did answer your question about the XNA stuff i did - As it goes i managed to get a new job pretty much based on the youtube videos posted - I now write 3d visualisation software for data from industrial robots (volume/voxel rendering) pretty sweet to have turned a hobby into a job, but the only downside is i now need a new hobby.
Volume/voxel rendering code samples always made my head hurt enough that I convinced myself I'd never need to do that. For a new hobby, I'd recommend Kettlebells!
I believe if you fill it with hot water, and pour cold on the top it will crack easier. you want to expand the bottom and shrink the top so it cracks. cold shrinks stuff.. u know.. :D
if you plan on doing this more than once, 5$ on a cheap glass cutter are well spent. a little harder to handle, but the cuts are super precise. pouring water over the bottle was a mistake, you wanna heat exactly at the score mark. the tension etween the hotter outside and the inside are enough to drive the crack foward. btw: no need for ice and salt, cold tap works fine too. the lower the temperature distance, the cleaner it will break.
Its a bit hard to pour on only the score without getting it on the rest of the bottle, which is why I hold it with the spout (slide) up and bottle down. So long as the hot & cold water don't run on the spout it seems to work fine (i.e., minimizes the incidence of cracks in the slide).
+Del Puckett - Guitar Perhaps- the weaker you make your break point, the cleaner break you'll get. Be careful with the water too, trying to keep it on the crack and away from the neck.
***** Thanks for watchin. I don't think I said that a hacksaw was better, since I've never used a glass cutter so I can't compare in terms of cutting efficacy. But that was an old & dull hacksaw blade, which most of us have around the toolshed (as opposed to a glass cutter) so in terms of not having to buy anything extra, hacksaw might be better for many folks just to avoid a trip to the hardware store.
***** I've made a few of these, and only had one turn out badly. When it cracked, the cracks ran up through the part intended to be a slide. Since then I've scored the bottle as deeply as my patience will allow (though that may just be superstition, I'm not sure more than a good scratch is necessary) and been careful to pour the water so that it runs away from the slide section. If your hardware store has them you can get carbon tipped blades for your hacksaw & cut deeply into the neck.
