How Do You Melt Wine Bottles For Lampwork?
You can melt wine bottles to create simple, one color lampwork beads. Wine bottles are a good source of raw material for glass. This tutorial will explain how to melt wine bottles for lampwork beads and other projects. Clean the wine bottles and then break the wine bottles into pieces. Use your torch to melt the small pieces of the wine bottles into blobs of hot glass. Heat the glass slowly to prevent thermal shock while you melt wine bottles and then pull the glass into stringers. Heat the stringers slowly to melt wine bottles and use the stringers to wind the hot glass around the bead mandrel covered with bead release to form a lampwork bead from the melted wine bottles. Proceed to make a round, tubular or other beads shaped as you desire. Place the lamp worked beads made from melted wine bottles into the kiln to anneal.
