Anybody tried this? DIY bottle neck slide.

[Roguetitan]

I have never made one my self but I probably will now that I have the knowledge on how to do it.
looks simple enough
I saw this link in another thread and I don't remember which one it was or who posted this link but it is pretty cool website
How to Make a Bottle Neck Slide

You'll need

- Wine bottle with long neck
- Glass cutter
- Masking tape
- Dremel Rotery Tool with grinding stone bit (optional)

1. Take a piece of masking tape and wrap it around the base of the bottleneck, making sure one side of the tape makes a perfect circle. This will serve as a guiding line for the glass cutter.

2. Using the glass cutter, scribe a solid line around the bottleneck, following the masking tape's guide line. Make sure the line does not break or get choppy by going up or down the bottleneck.

3. Remove the tape.

4. Take the bottle to your kitchen sink and run very hot water over the scribed line on the bottleneck for at least 2 minutes.

5. (Here's the trick) Then change the tap water to cold and run bottleneck under the stream AND TAP ON THE SCRIBED LINE WITH YOUR FINGER or the metal ball end of the glass cutter. Slowly rotate the bottle, allowing the water to hit every part of the scribed line. You should eventually hear or see a crack along the scribe. The bottleneck may even fall right off. (You may want to place a kitchen towel in the sink before this step to keep a falling bottleneck from breaking.)

If there is no crack, repeat steps 4 and 5.

6. If it cracks but the bottleneck does not fall off, take hold of the neck and snap it off (just like breaking a chicken's neck).

7. (optional) Dry off bottleneck and use Dremel Rotery Tool grinding bit to smooth the edges of the cut glass. -or- If you want to keep the slide "authentic" to blues history, take it outside and smooth the edges on your sidewalk. Be careful not to chip off too much in
the process.

Viola! You have your own true Blues bottleneck slide.

Don't get mad if your first one doesn't break right. This happens from time to time. Keep practicing.

 

[DrewPeterson7]

Only in a tutorial on how to make your own blues bottleneck slide could you include "like breaking a chicken's neck" and get away with it.

I've been looking for an excuse to buy a Dremel for some time now, and I'm not really sold on any of the slides I own - I may have to try this.

 

[BlackHawk2029]

You don't own a dremel!?!?!? what is wrong with you!?


but really they're great to have around.

 

[rayc]

We used to rub a piece of ice around the lines after heating it with a candle.
Used to be a DIY kit around years ago with a little wire crandle to sit the bottle on as you rotated it to scribe, heat with the candle & the rub the cube of ice.
Then we used fine wet/dry paper to smooth the edges.
Same deal & yours sounds quicker.

 

[true-eurt]

Wow...finally...a project I can afford!!

Thanks Rogue..and for the Chicken descriptive as well! That made me laugh~!

 

[Ritzy]

Cool link.
I made a few bottle neck slides some years back using a similar method, albeit more of a traditional "old bluesman's" method:

* Take a piece of cotton cord (3mm or so is a good thinkness) and soak it in kerosine.

* Tie the cord tightly around the bottle neck where you want the break to occur and light it.

* Let it burn for a while so that the glass underneath has some time to really heat up. When the think has been burning for a while and while the flame is still stoking, throw the whole thing into a bucket of cold water. Hopefully the hot-cold shock should cause the neck to break off first time.

Anyway, while the above method has a nice 'traditional' vibe to it, it's a bit inconsistent, pretty easy to screw up, and also pretty easy to put unwanted cracks down the length of the glass. It does help to scribe a line with a dremel and let the kerosine soaked cord sit on the scribe. In my experience, though, the best results have come from just using a glass cutting bit on a dremel alone.

 

[ggunn]

If you want to keep the slide "authentic" to blues history, take it outside and smooth the edges on your sidewalk.

Use some sort of eye protection if you do that!

 

[Tadpui]

So does the tone improve by using a bottle of fortified wine?

I'd have to say YES! You'd probably have to use a bottle of Nightrain or Cisco to get an authentic blues tone. None of that yuppie shit. I bet an aged Cabernet Sauvignon bottle would sound too lifeless and sterile. You just can't get a swing going if you're using the neck off of an expensive Chardonnay. It's just impossible. Like trying to play death metal on a Gibson ES-335.