Timeline for How to cut glass without a glass cutter
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| Jun 27, 2016 at 11:10 | comment | added | Zeiss Ikon | Most ordinary steel is too soft to scratch glass well, but work hardening can make even low-carbon alloys hard enough to get the job done with some persistence. The harder the steel, the better this works, however. | |
| Jun 26, 2016 at 12:56 | comment | added | CJ Dennis | I once saw a man on a train "cut" the top of a glass coke bottle by using the metal lid. He scratched a line all the way around, then gave it a sharp blow and the top (the part with the screw thread) came away almost completely cleanly. The shape wasn't perfectly circular but he ended up with only two pieces. | |
| Mar 10, 2016 at 7:36 | vote | accept | kamuro | ||
| Mar 8, 2016 at 14:49 | history | answered | Zeiss Ikon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |