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2014-12-11, 1:07pm
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bottle bending
Anyone melt a bottle and pull out the neck?
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2014-12-11, 1:15pm
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Ouch! That might hurt! 
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2014-12-11, 1:39pm
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I just saw a couple of coke bottles stretched out like that at a consignment shop. I was wondering how they did that. hope someone has an answer...
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2014-12-11, 2:18pm
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preheat it in your kiln, pick it up on the bottom with a claw grabber, and slowly introduce the neck into the flame until you can stretch it. anneal as you usually would. problem is you dont know what type of glass the bottle is made from so you may have issues with the pre heat temp and annealing cycle temps and you may have to experiment with them.
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2014-12-11, 3:55pm
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No, but I had one of those in my teens, filled with layers of different colored sand *grin*
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2014-12-11, 4:29pm
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I make wine bottle spoon rests all the time and use my regular 6 ramp system 96 kiln program to slump them so I would expect you could heat in kiln at 250/hr to 1050, hold then pull out and heat in flame.....
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2014-12-11, 8:47pm
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The sand art bottles use a special machine from bosac.org
You may be able to stretch bottles with a large kiln as outlined on ehow.com
I'm sure there are other bottle stretching machines but the bosac came up first in google.
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2014-12-12, 7:09am
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Stretching
Actually most of those bottles were suspended from the top of a kiln by some tungsten wire, then heated to the point that they slump to the bottom of the kiln.
These were big time novelties back in the 70's. I made a lot of them, but then I had a kiln that was 3 foot or so deep.
I also made them on my Litton glass lathe. If you happen to have a few extra thousands of dollars laying around.
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