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Solution for cutting wine bottles
Day 1: I was really excited to use this cutter, but bummed with the results. I tried it on four wine bottles and could not get the cut to line up. I even tried using a level to make sure I clamped it on evenly, no good. On the fifth bottle I was able to get the cut nearly lined, but I couldn't get the bottle to split on the cut after the hot/cold water process. It just wouldn't split! Argh! From my experience, you should be prepared to go through a lot of bottles before it works. I'll try again on number 6 and see what happens. The blade is good for 200 bottles, hopefully I'll get four or five successful cuts :)
Day 2: I was able to make some successful cuts. One key tip that helped me was to put the cutter flat on a table so the bottle is on its side (horizontal) and the bolts are standing upright. That helped me rotate the bottle with more control of the cut. Now that I have the cut straight, my next problem is getting the glass on a wine bottle to separate. The thickness of wine bottles might be too much for the blade cut. Some bottles come apart better than others. It hasn't been consistent, but not giving up.
Day 3: I found a way to split wine bottles better than the instructions. As I mentioned, wine bottles are too thick to separate by pouring hot/cold water on the seam. A better way is to fill the wine bottle with cold water after you cut, dump the water out, then pour hot water in the bottle. It splits much easier. I leaned the bottle at a 45 degree angle, put towels under the bottle so the glass wouldn't crash in the sink, then poured really hot water in the bottle slowly. It split almost immediately.
One other tip, the bottle cutter is designed to fit around bottles that are the same circumference throughout the body of the bottle, like a standard wine bottle. But standard bottles are kinda boring. You can still bottles that have varying circumferences if you take a black marker at make a straight line around the bottle, then cut along the line. It helps to have a guide line to keep your cut straight.
