/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>387561
This one is rather obvious. Would look a wee bit ghetto, though.

On the other hand, I live with two women and their myriad of shoes.

>>387562
I like this one. Will be making a couple of them come summer and when I move into a house with a bit of a garden.

>>387564
Or should I just save for the future veg-patch, I wonder?

>>387565
And the final one I have in mind. I do prefer gardens and edible plants, though, and I believe plants would overheat in the hot Central-European summers we have here.

I have saved up a shit ton of bottles over the past 2 months and plan to build a dog house and/or dog run in my backyard using mortar with the bottles. But I'll probably have some bottles left over so I'm looking for extra ideas as well.

>>387567
wow that is awesome
any idea how they keep the soil in there? is it layered or something?
i can just make out some wiremesh

I also have an infinite supply of these motherhuggers. They are 26cm high and about 9-10 cm wide. They wine is cheap and quite good for the price, and we'll be buying them by the dozen during the year. Any ideas for a good use? I am yet to come up with anything for them.

>>387570
Forgot the picture.

>>387569
I'd say you make a net of rope that you fill with dirt, moss and whatnot. Then you just pull the top rope into the bottle, hook your net onto it and slowly slide the glass onto the net. The volume of the dirt keeps the bottle in place, especially if you fill the very bottom of the net with mulch.

>>387561
If you've got more than you need after finding projects for them and just want to get rid of them try selling them.

Cut off the tops with a glass cutter or the fire/water trick and sell em' to college students as cheap glasses for 3 for $5 or something. You make more than you would recycling them and it doesn't take much time to do at all to make a decent profit.

Is there a way to cut the bottom out of a jar or bottle, and still be able to glue the end piece back into place?
Not slicing the entire bottom off, but... I guess coring it? Pic related, cutting out where the red line is, then gluing it into place when I'm finished putting stuff in the bottle.

Slicing the bottom and gluing it back into place would be far too obvious and ugly for what I want.
If it can't be done, it's no big deal.

>>387612
You could try cutting it out with a dremel. Do-able but you wouldn't be able to glue it back in and it would take a lot of time. Maybe if you had access to specialized cutting machinery but I'm not sure how else you would manage that.

>>387615
no, a dremel will shatter it. You need to figure out a way to put a score on the line you want to cut (maybe space something up off a desk and rotate the bottle against it. You don't need a super deep score, just a line.) Then alternate between running warm and cool water over it. After a few goes at that, the glass will snap from the stress, and the snap should happen on your line. I've done this loads of times to cut bottles in half, but never to take out a bottom like that.

>>387612
Try inserting a coil into the bottom of the bottle that you can heat up, then do the fire-water trick for separating the glass. It is most fiddly and I wouldn't do it myself for that lone reason, but hey. What do you need it for anyway?

>>387631
no. That "soak a string in alcohol and light it on fire" thing is retarded. Its way too much of a temperature difference and you end up with a ragged "cut" if you do it like that. Its like using an axe where you need an exacto blade.

>>387631
I put mini skeletons in jars and large mouth bottles, and sell them.
I have a few wine bottles, but I can't assemble a skeleton in one, so I figured maybe cut out the bottom and glue it back in.
Bottom would be inconspicuous. Most people don't examine the very bottom, and I could hide it from the normal view with some debris and such.

>>387628
Yeah, I've done that to cut them in half but not the bottom either.

For the dremel I meant with diamond, glass grinding bits.

>>387564
Here is another outdoor lighting idea. Turn them into torches.

http://www.designsponge.com/2009/08/diy-project-eriks-recycled-wine-bottle-torch.html

I have been thinking about making half a dozen of these once I get the hardware. Maybe add a small piece of sheet metal to the fence to protect it from the flame and reflect some of the light.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFXngPx3w3M

Great vid for turning bottles into glasses. He starts out giving a bunch of examples that fail hard, but then he shows how to do it properly.

>>388333
That's pretty educational. His other videos are nice as well, those heat-focusing lenses, man, I'll buy a couple of those when I have the money.

Also, the wife is just, well. You know.

>>387561

Just keep this swing-top bottle (pic related) as is and use it for storage.

Obviously you could use it for other liquids, but it could also be used for small dry goods: orzo, couscous, lentils, rice, etc.

I pay 3-4$ a piece for those new from homebrew suppliers.

>>388383

Don't worry, those swing-tops will house my homebrew mead in due time.

>>387979
Build a Blowpipe and you have a Mouth Blown Torch.

You can make glasses out of them, if you have nice looking bottles... google that

Break the bottles and throw the glass into a cement mixer. Run the mixer, tumble that shit for a day or two, and have a bunch of nice looking glass pebbles, another byproduct being sand made from glass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2JzknRLJzY