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We used to do this in the Seventies. Big fun.

The trouble is that - knowing San Pellegrino bottles fairly well - the label just peels of with condensation, and would just fall off the first time you wash it. Without the label this sort of loses its point. I'd just do it on glasses with embossed or engraved labels.
By reversing the upper part of a bottle into the base you could make an interesting planter I guess...

This a a cool idea as long as you put some kind of protective resin on the paper part so it doesn't start to peel after a couple of uses.

Or...

You could buy the kit from Urban Outfitters ;)

please explain what's so great about San Pellegrino? it's water.

bfoot...

link?

lab director,

San Pellegrino is generally carbonated, and it's delicious. When I was in Italy I drank it with every meal, and here at home I like it (or something like it--even Trader Joe's fizzy water) to slow down the wine consumption. :)

I've heard you can do this with less tools using a string dipped in alcohol and tied around where you want to cut it. You light it on fire and when it burns off you dunk it in cold water. I still haven't tried it, I've heard tales of the entire bottle exploding from the shock of the cold water. Anyone ever use the method?

Yes, this was a fad in the seventies. Unfortunately, the rim of the glasses was always rough, and one had the feeling that a lip could be cut drinking from the glasses.

With good glassware so widely available and so cheap, really, in the great scheme of things, why?

I have to agree with AustinSarah. Glasses are not that epensive - probably about just as much as it would take to buy up that many bottles of San Pellegrino water.

sure glasses are cheap. lots of things are cheap and that's part of the problem. why not recycle?

You can recycle all the glass bottles you want at your local recycling plant. I look at one of these bottles and wouldn't probably use one since unless the person has sanded and sanded and sanded at that glass, one could get their lip cut. Nice way to end a party, correct - by having to drive your friend to a doctor?

An easier way with string, nail polish remover (acetone) and a lighter, is how I made my soda bottles into mini planters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yViiVLlaQag

I would probably try this once - for fun.

Why? - why would you do this?

If you can afford a bottle of san pel or sol you can afford to buy properly made drinking glasses

Violetsrose - Completely agree.

obviously there are a lot of things we can do that are less work. but some people enjoy making things, reworking things into different things. i'd probably never do this, especially because i hate the chalkboard sound and cut lips.

but cost or financial inability to purchase drinking glasses isn't the issue here (you'd have to buy a torch and all the fixins); it's just people making fun stuff. creativity, i've heard it called.

I'm all for creativity

Chopping the top off a bottle is not creativity

Chopping the top off lots of coloured bottles, drilling holes in the bases and removing the labels and making them into tiny lampshades for a chandelier that throws coloured light across the room - now that would be creative