| | |  | Glass Craft | Home » » » Generation Green (g2) Bottle Cutter | | | | | | | Description: | | Be part of Crafting a Green World, it's easy with the new Generation Green (g2) Bottle Cutter. Made from recycle aluminum, the g2 is lightweight and allows you to easily score and separate discarded bottles and wide-mouth jars in 3 steps. Its 6 turreted cutting head means cutting longevity. Using the g2 Bottle Cutter you can turn old glass bottles and jars into glass sculptures, vases, lamps shades, votive holder or fashion anything you can imagine.
Specification:
Contents: One bottle cutter, two 4" x 4" polishing pads, tapper and instructions.
Package Dimensions: 2" W x 14 5/8" L x 2" D (packaging has optional hang tag). The G2 Bottle Cutter is warranted to the original purchaser for one year from the original purchase date by the manufacture. Made in China/Taiwan | | | Features: | |
• Cut wide-mouth jars and bottles up to 5 gallons.
• Removable glass cutter for straight cuts.
• Cut more bottles with 6 durable cutting blades.
• Cut with ease and comfort. 1 year manufacture warranty against defective materials or workmanship.
• Have better cutting control, taking less pressure to make a good score.
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 14.4 inches | | Product Width:
| 2.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 2.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.81 pounds | | Package Length:
| 14.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 2.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 54 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
Average Customer Review:
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52 of 53 found the following review helpful:
 Very neat machineOct 08, 2011
By Jason E. Mayne
"Jason"
It does take a bit of skill to use, but the old lady cuts a wine bottle in about 10 min per cutting procedure (ie 10 min per cut), and they're perfect; seats perfectly on the table with very smooth edges when she's done. She's done about 8 now and loves it. Score glass, dunk in hot water, dunk in cold water, dunk dunk dunk and snap; pops apart clean! Use the provided glass-sanding sponge to smooth the edges. Making wedding decorations ourselves now. Jason
44 of 45 found the following review helpful:
 So-SoJun 24, 2011
By Newbie
New to cutting bottles into glasses, I watched a handful of YouTube videos. This product seemed to appear user friendly. Operative word is "appear". The first issue was that after two attempts at scoring the bottle, the guide that goes into the top cracked to the point it was no longer effective. (nothing a band-aid of duct tape couldn't handle though). The second short coming is the hardware used to secure the vertical and horizontal parts of the jig. Because wine bottles have a varied design you will need to reset the jig in order to achieve a uniform glass height. The tiny wing nuts are "ok" but you will need a screwdriver to hold the head of the screw while you tighten the wingnuts. Not a big deal except the hardware is cheap so after a few adjustments the head of the screw is starting to round out. A better design would have been a stud or a nutplate. This would have made it less cumbersome to adjust and would allow you to tighten to ensure the jig doesn't move while scoring.
After a long "trial and error" period I have been able to use the jig as it is marketed. It's not quick to adjust and gets the "pain in the butt" stamp. Aside from making your own jig I didn't see anything else out there. One more thing, I didn't have any success with the hot water cold water technique to seperate the bottle. I did however purchase a bernzomatic hand held torch which has been 100% effective at ensuring enough heat is dispersed along the score line.
I would only recommend this item after you have exhausted your search for better. Good luck!
19 of 19 found the following review helpful:
Simply made and simple to useDec 23, 2011
By Craig C
I purchased this product on Dec. 17 and it arrived Dec. 22, assembled it in about 5 minutes. Took it out to the shop along with an old coffee maker. Set up my bottle for the location of the cut. Set the cutter on its side so the bottle can rest on the lower guide and made a light score cut using only one turn of the bottle. Fired up the coffee pot with just water, poured the entire pot of hot water slowly over the score line. When the hot water was gone I quickly ran it under cold water on the score line and presto, a perfect break. The hot and cold water technique is the easiest for getting a smooth and great surface to finish up with sanding for use of the glass. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to cut bottles or jars, just remember to only make one pass and then use the hot and cold water method(very hot and very cold).
15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
So far so good!Aug 09, 2011
By Sara
"SaraMac"
This is the second bottle cutter I have purchased and I am in love! The first one I had purchased was a pain the nehind, being as the score line would never be straight. This one, I get a straight cut time after time. NOW the tricky part of seperating the score line. I read that you fill the bottle up PAST the score line with BOILING water. I have a tea kettle, so basically, when it starts to whistle. I pull it off, fill up my mesauring cup, fill the bottle and use an ice cube right away on the score line. BE careful, holding the ice in one spot for too long can make the score line go elsewhere. Tonight, I was able to score and seperate 9 bottles out of 12. 3 ended up not working so well. But it seemed to be more with the green bottles. I did have one clear one that the score line went off, but that was my first one, I did 5 more clear bottles like that, no problems.
NOW my complaint. The part that sits inside the bottle is starting to break, which I may have applied too much pressure. Being as rereading the book, you do not need to use a lot of pressure, which I was trying to strong arm this. BUT it still disappoints me that it does have this flaw. I will be trying to use some polymer clay to reinforce this, being as once polymer clay bakes, it's plastic anyway and this will bond to the polymer clay as well. I will update with any additional information I find out as I go along with this. ;)
17 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Love this tool!May 19, 2011
By Happy Camper
"Rita S"
I've used quite a few bottle cutters and not had too much success until I found the G2. Scoring the bottle is easy and the manufacturers method of safely separating bottles makes it a breeze. If you are looking for a bottle cutter, I would recommend the G2.
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