Has anyone ever done this? I have a friend who drinks sodas from a glass Mexican Coca-Cola bottle and has about a hundred empty bottled. I love the way recycled beads look. Is there a "homemade" half-way uncomplicated way to make glass beads? Or a place to send the bottles for that for a discount on the beads?
Thanks.
They make glass beads out of coca cola bottles in Africa. They come out as a muted, bluish green color. However, I have no idea how they do this. You might pose this question on the glass newsgroup - rec.crafts.glass or one of the glass bead sites like
Good luck,
Patti
If you find out, would you report back? I rather like that color myself.
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I've certainly never done it, but here's a link to where it's done, and their method. I vaguely remember previously reading about African recycled glass bead making and thought it was interesting.
I may just try heating some glass shards with the torch, then try to attach them (one at a time) to a rod and see where that gets me, along the lines of this:
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