Homemade Guitar Slide

Step 3 Smash Your Bottle

Now it's time smash your bottle. Grasp firmly by the neck, and swing the bottom of the bottle into something solid. This should not be something breakable, or something that you don't want small shards of glass on/in. I have always used the can we collect our glass bottles in as a receptacle, and it has worked quite well.
I have never actually shattered a bottle into pieces, there is a mostly clean break on the line. There are some very small fragments that will come off, smash it in something that will collect the pieces. There is also a chance that the bottle with shatter, so this is where you would want gloves and hearing protection. Broken glass specializes in cutting through flesh.

If you have cut it properly you will be left with a small tube of glass in your hands, but be careful, there will be one very sharp edge on the part which was until recently happily connected to the rest of the bottle. We take care of this mangler in the next step.

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[lusoc]

Another trick is to heat the score line over a candle and then immediately plunge it under cold water. This is much less violent and produces good results.