Green Gifts: Glasses Made from Salvaged Beer Bottles

This weekend we got a totally unique housewarming gift – tumblers made from salvaged beer bottles. The glasses come from Etsy sellers ReusefulObjects who salvages used bottles such as wine, beer & juice to make drinking glasses. Each bottle is cut, and then the rim is ground, sanded, and polished for a very smooth edge.

Some of glasses the duo produces has a permanent design printed by the manufacturer, which is a fun detail. But they all have an original design that they have hand-drawn and permanently etched into the glass. They also do custom work depending on how complicated the design is. Each set is made to order, 4 tumblers for $25-60 depending on intricacy of etching.
We’ve seen reused bottles before, but ReusefulObjects has done a beautiful etching job. The glasses will be perfect way to enjoy some agua fresca on these final summer days.

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These are awesome! For my wedding we found out the town we were getting married in was having a recycling issue when their main truck broke down for a while. A friend of mine living locally rescued a bunch of green wine bottles and cut them for drinking at our reception dinner. They since got gifted to a bunch of locals and luckily their recycling program is up and running again.

posted by kmarie on August 21st 2008 at 8:05pm
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Lovely! It's amazing what a little reusing can do!

posted by xieta on September 24th 2008 at 7:29am
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So how exactly does one cut them? i think that is very cool!

posted by labchick on October 4th 2008 at 4:41am
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I am also interested in how-to information.

posted by ecology on October 7th 2008 at 9:30am
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labchick & georgianss - check out this post about how to cut glass bottles.

posted by Rachelw on October 15th 2008 at 6:07pm
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I've been trying to do this for a while using the thread and candle method to break the bottles but I can never get a clean enough cut. :(

posted by firegardeneve on February 3rd 2009 at 2:29pm
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