Here’s another thing that works to make the cutting quicker. After you have—to use a suggestion that I have seen—bathed the score mark in successive heat and cold applications the bottle will eventually break. Today, for a bottom cut, when not getting the break after one application of heat and cold, I did something…

Ladies and gents: I have been making glasses from wine bottles for 50 years, am self-taught and only looked at all the modern ways to cut bottles two days ago. I can take an untouched wine bottle, score it and cut it perectly all within 60 seconds. I have settled on 5-1/8”, 6-1/8” and 6” as standard sizes. But I use…