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Title: things to do with a beer bottle
Post by: Ivo on November 15, 2009, 09:09:39 AM

Item: beer bottle, slumped, pinched and tweezered to make an ashtray with a candle stick in the middle.

Now I've seen the Vasart items whereby bottles went flat into the oven and produced a sort of tray. This is obviously a variation on that theme. Anyone come across these before?

Title: Re: things to do with a beer bottle
Post by: Frank on November 15, 2009, 08:49:50 PM

There seem to be a lot of people doing things like this in their slumping kilns, google "glass artist recycled" or similar

Title: Re: things to do with a beer bottle
Post by: Cathy B on November 15, 2009, 11:50:11 PM

I know someone who makes the same sort of thing in his fire after a barbeque. Surprised he hasn't burnt himself, actually.

Title: Re: things to do with a beer bottle
Post by: jonchellycain on November 17, 2009, 07:59:11 PM

yeah ive seen them long ways like a big dish

Title: Re: things to do with a beer bottle
Post by: Frank on November 25, 2009, 01:18:01 AM

All because of an unknown ceramicists experiment in US, a nutty Scot company director, and Vincent Ysart finding a commercial way of doing it. With a little help from Nazeing along the way. The Teachers bottles became ubiquitous at one time and obviously created a big impression, or is it depression.