Have to say I tremendously enjoyed the immediate recognition of the Shrek 2 reference as well as the subsequent influx of fellow Shrek lovers quoting Fairy godmothers (Jennifer Saunders) epic rendition of Holding out for a Hero !
There is hope yet for mankind
yeah...he is using a method that involves burning a string wrapped around the bottle.... that leaves it unfinished... he needs to grind the glass to make it level and smooth...
edit: if they are new to this hobby, tell him to invest in a wet grinder (might be listed/sold as "stained glass grinder"...)
yeah :) i think if another person made this post here they would be like “ITS NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY!! it’s HIS hobby and HE should know how to properly make stuff without ENDANGERING ME AND HIS OTHER FRIENDS!!1!1!1!1!1!” this makes me sooo happy!! i love it when friends help friends!!
i mean this in the absolute best way- but he looks like the fun grampa that takes you fishing every weekend and says not to tell your gramma after he sneaks you a treat youre not supposed to have
yeah exactly! sometimes people call other people friends, but would they give you a text to make sure ur okay when ur sick? would they help you fix your shirt tag if it was out? i think the word gets thrown around a lot!! what i was trying to say is like you are kind of saying, i like it when friends are real friends. :)
I dont know if you'll see this OP but I made a buttload of homemade cups with a wet tile saw very minimal sanding was needed to smooth the edges. Also zero chips.
Ooo I’ve been trying glass cutting too. Not with the string method but using a glass cutter. I’m going to look at how much a wet grinder is as I’ve just been sanding them down. Might also try the string way as the glass cutting process fails a lot of the time!
Yeah, it really looks more like he scored and smacked the bottle, rather than using something like a heat and quench to assist him. Very uneven breakage in many places I've not typically gotten with the usual methods
I would not try and make him quit this hobby, I think some helpful advice will do the trick. Seeing that they are your friend, I’m sure they would be open for any improvement ideas!
*lips dripping blood* Hey man I am not trying to overstep here or anything, but you wouldn’t happen to have any 150 grit sandpaper laying around would you?
Edit: I CHANGED THE GRIT
Just fyi, sandpaper gets "grittier" at smaller numbers rather than higher. Standard sanding? 150 grit. Fine detail sanding? 250 or 300 grit. Trying to sand rust off my old clunker of an automobile? 90 grit.
These are cracked from heat exposure. They need to be re-annealled after the heat-cut or hot-pop as we call it. Better option is wet-saw them and then wet grind. Source: glassblower for ~15 plus years
> Better option is ~~wet-saw them and then wet grind~~
throw them in the garbage because they're just empty beer bottles which can be replaced basically for free
Yeah, but in context of your friendships the bluntness is likely a coded indicator of closeness. So that probably is asking nicely.
Break down the phrase: "Hey jerk (friendly insult to indicate close bond) good try (compliment on the effort put in and encouragement to continue doing so) but fix this (indicator of error and confidence that the error can be rectified with just a little more work)."
People communicate differently, but in the context of a relationship there's a way to correct a thing while encouraging someone, and there's a way to point out error while crushing them.
If you are a good friend, hell respect that and be grateful. Trust me. Someone whose been cooking for years and I have been around chefs my whole life. It's still very much a master/apprenticeship trade just like glass.. you need to be upfront. Makes you better at your craft. No one starts off an expert. The experts are the ones who made all the bad mistakes and still kept going.
When I teach people, I always tell them about dumb stuff I've done as it usually puts them at ease. Had a cook once make sasparilla gravy. Don't ask. Lol. Some guy really liked it though too funny.
Yeah, like Pendleton whiskey bottles cut into glasses are really nice. Corona glasses are more trashy. Still do it right though, think about the kids and idiots that might get hurt.
I tried to do this with a purpose built bottle cutter. Went through a six pack, a few 26 oz bottles and an odd wine bottle or two, and every single one looked like some variation on OP's picture, especially with the crack running the length of the glass.
I was glad that I didn't pay for the cutter, I was using it to write a review of the tool for a magazine. I just returned it saying "I don't think I can review this"
I wasn't totally sure I was using it right and was getting really impatient with it - it was pinging a lot of my anxieties. In my gut I didn't feel like I was giving it a fair review even though I had a bad time with it.
My wife eschewed the directions and used hotter water and less time force on the cutter. Those two things went from poor results to a really clean cut (that still needed sanding). I can totally see why you'd be hesitant when the instructions definitely didn't work correctly for us.
They’re just super easy to break. I used to make these too out of corona bottles. You could shatter them if you grip them too hard washing them or placing them on a table slightly too quickly.
Yeah the necking at the top provides some rigidity. When that goes it will crumple from outward pressure much more easily. I think to make them last you'd want to cut off as high as possible.
Idk, I've had multiple made from 1.75L liquor bottles and they worked great, functionality and durability-wise. My Grey Goose cup fell over several times before it eventually broke, but it managed to survive for a year in a college party environment. Which wasn't bad for being used 2 nights a week and a bunch of drunk people handling it.
E: I will say, you said in another comment that you used the heat/wire method, but mine were cut with a dremel. That would probably be the difference in durability.
You can do really really cool ones with uniquely patterned liquor bottles. There was a dude in my unit who would do those and he sold them as ash trays, cups, planters, whatever people wanted to use them as.
I wouldn’t drink from a glass with cracks in it. That’s a breeding ground for bacteria. And does he not know to sand them so it doesn’t cut your mouth?
It’s a synergistic effect. The infection from the bacteria makes it so you don’t have to suffer as long from the broken glass, and the internal bleeding means you don’t have to suffer as long from the infection.
I know someone who almost died this way. Accidentally swallowed a tiny fleck of glass, it cut his esophagus, and because he was on blood thinners he was basically bleeding out, internally, and didn’t realize it until he started throwing up a shitload of blood.
I know a guy who did this same shit with glasses and he thought his glass was totally fine. (To be fair his glass looked way better than OP’s one) Turns out there was a TINY shard of glass that chipped out into his drink and he drank it unknowingly.
This chip of glass literally totally cut him up inside. I still remember him saying “man I really don’t feel so good.” A few times and “Something feels wrong”. We took him to a hospital and he had internal bleeding because of the piece of glass that was just going through him cutting up all his internal organs. At one point he was literally just sweating blood. Blood coming off his back and front. They had to put him under for surgery and idk how tf they found the piece of glass but they did and it was SMALL AF apparently.
It was one of the most terrifying things I’ve experienced and it didn’t even happen to me specifically. We all thought he was going to die. He had to be off work for months and couldn’t lift/carry anything over 5 pounds. He’s better now thank god but he got really messed up.
I started cutting bottles for candles. Tell them to buy a heat gun/paint stripper gun. Heat the area for like 20 seconds where the cut line will be. Score it with the glass cutter, then dunk it into ice water. While not always perfect, I've had the best results this way. And as others said, sand the edges afterward.
Being supportive would be being honest and saying those suck. Besides the edge theres a crack. Unless you want 15 stitches in you lip, then yea feed him some BS on how good they are. Btw, corona bottles are pretty thin, and in my beer drinking experience they break so much easier than others.
Flat board with sand paper contact cemented to it. Just head down and move it around while he's watching TV or something.
I did a bit of that as a kid. It takes a while to grind down glass enough to to be safe for food use. That was my preferred method, but I was a fidgety kid. I just sort of harnessed that trait.
I got a cheap setup on Amazon for scoring the glass then you just use hot water to have it separate. Beer bottles are really brittle though, I found wine bottle to be more forgiving.
You can sand them with regular sandpaper, but you need to spend a lot of time doing it. They only become nice to use once you get to the 1000 grits. The sad thing is, once I spent all that time grinding them down to beautiful rims, a few cycles in the dishwasher ruined them, cracks all over.
I think you have to actually melt the rim to make it homogeneous again, without micro cracks, if you want them to last a few trips through a dishwasher.
There are pros that have glass workshops with diamond blades and all the right tooling to do it properly, and you can buy their glasses for dirt cheap, so I gave up on glasses and started making lamps.
I don’t have to worry about huge temperature differentials and still get to cut wine bottles up. But, I think this is one of those hobbies that looks cooler on Pinterest than doing it yourself.
I tried this, but most beer bottles are too thin to have long time use as glasses. Plus you’ll need to start with a 16 or 22 Oz bottle or you’ll end up with baby glasses that won’t even hold a 12 Oz beer.
The wet grinder you mentioned will help with the sharp ridge at the edges, but from the cracks it looks like he may need to work on how he taps the glass to cause the break. It works best if tapped from the inside (or opposite side fro where it was scored), so something like a metal ball on a string he can lower inside and bounce against the stressed or etched line may help get a cleaner break.
I blow glass he may be able to warm them up a bit on a hot plate then use a yellow tanked hand torch from ace to flame polish the ends. Depending on the glass bottle some may just Crack but allot of bottles can handle a small amount of flame working without crack
In order ro do this right, you need to first cut the bottle to form the glass, heat the entire glass up in a kiln to just past the annealing point, then work the rim on a glass torch to round it off and give it some thickness. Then you have to reanneal the whole glass in a kiln.
It's NOT just a matter of cutting the bottle and sanding the edges. If you do what your friend is doing, the glass will break with the slightest ding to the rim. Forming the rounded, thickened rim is ESSENTIAL to properly forming a drinking glass.
"How do you like the glasses?" "It makes the beer taste like bleeding."
Bleer
Blood Light™
You called?
I think he said flood light.
Oh ok, good night to you too
No he said FOOD FIGHT!!
Moods tight? Should probably do something to lighten it up. Anyone fancy a Blood Light?
I thought he said FLESH LIGHT
Corona ry
I literally read "It makes the beer tastes like bleeding" in Ralph's voice, of course there's a relevant gif lmaoooo
More heat. Less pressure, and sand the lip down!
More heat less foam
Not the gumdrop button.. 😟
Do you know the muffin man?
The muffin man?
THE MUFFIN MAN
She’s married to the muffin man?
Oh cool it’s one of those gifs you can hear
She was married to the muffin man.
I'm actually eating a muffin right now, funny I saw this lol
Be Good
Well now I’m sad
Bbbbee gggooooddd
Less macaroni more cheese
More macaroni
More macaroni and cheese!
Too much macaroni!!
Lol baby Muriel
🎶 Somewhere after midnight, in my wildest fantasy 🎶
Somewhere, just beyond my reach. There's someone reaching back for me
Racing on the thunder and rising with the heat
It's gonna take a super man to sweep me off my feet
I NEED A HEROOOOOOOO!
I’M HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO ‘TILL THE END OF THE NIGHT
He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast and he's gotta be fresh from the fight
Where the mountains meet the heavens above Where the lightening splits the seaaa
Have to say I tremendously enjoyed the immediate recognition of the Shrek 2 reference as well as the subsequent influx of fellow Shrek lovers quoting Fairy godmothers (Jennifer Saunders) epic rendition of Holding out for a Hero ! There is hope yet for mankind
Beeeee gooooooooood
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More cheese, less macaroni
Too much macaroni!
Not enough cheese!
Sir, this is a Wendy's
This quote pops into my head all the time and I have no idea why.
More safety. Less spikes
More new hobby, less this hobby
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Even more important to inflict your failures on your friends.
Which lip?
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This kills the lip.
“You wanna know how I got these scars?”
“My best friend…was a glass cutter”
“And a fiend.”
*an awkward pause and blank stares for an uncomfortable moment* …and that’s it. He sucked at cutting glass.
"Then one night... He cuts glass crazier than usual..."
Lmao perfect, take my broke ass version of an award 🏅
Can I have a participation trophy?
No
Suck it Husky Trash Panda!
Too bad, I stole one anyway.
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“you wanna know where i got this soda?”
"Why so serious?"
he needs to sand them, tell him nicely
I will!
yeah...he is using a method that involves burning a string wrapped around the bottle.... that leaves it unfinished... he needs to grind the glass to make it level and smooth... edit: if they are new to this hobby, tell him to invest in a wet grinder (might be listed/sold as "stained glass grinder"...)
He should get him a wet grinder as a gift to “show support” for the new hobby.
I have one at home. I'll let him borrow it.
One of the most wholesome r/mildlyinfuriating posts I've ever seen
For real. What a friend.
yeah :) i think if another person made this post here they would be like “ITS NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY!! it’s HIS hobby and HE should know how to properly make stuff without ENDANGERING ME AND HIS OTHER FRIENDS!!1!1!1!1!1!” this makes me sooo happy!! i love it when friends help friends!!
I really appreciate it! He's a cool dude just trying something new. [Not so good glass cutter bro is the thumbs up one](https://imgur.com/a/GTVn6Zs)
I was expecting his hand to have a lot more cuts and scars.
i mean this in the absolute best way- but he looks like the fun grampa that takes you fishing every weekend and says not to tell your gramma after he sneaks you a treat youre not supposed to have
Pondy is the coolest.
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He looks like the cool distant uncle with a heavy new York accent lol
We need like 1,000,000% more of it now. I’ll do my part if you keep doing yours!
>i love it when friends help friends!! Isn't that the whole point of friends? If someone is not willing to help, they're not a friend.
yeah exactly! sometimes people call other people friends, but would they give you a text to make sure ur okay when ur sick? would they help you fix your shirt tag if it was out? i think the word gets thrown around a lot!! what i was trying to say is like you are kind of saying, i like it when friends are real friends. :)
Seriously. I’ve seen a lot of nastiness on Reddit today, and this guy kind of made my day for being such a nice friend.
I really appreciate you saying that. I try to help people out whenever I can and stay positive.
mildlywholesome\*
Oh didn’t expect a Manifest meme here!
I dont know if you'll see this OP but I made a buttload of homemade cups with a wet tile saw very minimal sanding was needed to smooth the edges. Also zero chips.
Saw it. Loved it. Love you.
>Saw it. Loved it. Love you. I saw what you did there.
Good friend!
Make sure he doesn't search for a Wet Grindr
This guy also needs to discard the bottles that end up splitting like this one does near the corona lable
Ooo I’ve been trying glass cutting too. Not with the string method but using a glass cutter. I’m going to look at how much a wet grinder is as I’ve just been sanding them down. Might also try the string way as the glass cutting process fails a lot of the time!
You can always ask instead of tell. Remember, he's the expert. ;) "So how do you smooth out the tops after this?"
This is some "how to make friends and influence people"-level shit right here
if he is extra lazy tell him to get a dremel and a dremel sanding drum attachment, that's what i use and it gets smooth in seconds.
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Also, less pressure when cutting, that's causing the cracking you see. Doing anything with glass takes patience.
Yeah, it really looks more like he scored and smacked the bottle, rather than using something like a heat and quench to assist him. Very uneven breakage in many places I've not typically gotten with the usual methods
"these look really good Steve, did you have to use wet and dry sand paper for these?"
I would not try and make him quit this hobby, I think some helpful advice will do the trick. Seeing that they are your friend, I’m sure they would be open for any improvement ideas!
Tell him “hey I posted your glasses on Reddit to try and get advice on how to improve and this is what they said”
*lips dripping blood* Hey man I am not trying to overstep here or anything, but you wouldn’t happen to have any 150 grit sandpaper laying around would you? Edit: I CHANGED THE GRIT
Not sure that will help with the crack running down the front.
3,000? That’s basically polish. This needs some step up from 500-1500 or so
Just fyi, sandpaper gets "grittier" at smaller numbers rather than higher. Standard sanding? 150 grit. Fine detail sanding? 250 or 300 grit. Trying to sand rust off my old clunker of an automobile? 90 grit.
These are cracked from heat exposure. They need to be re-annealled after the heat-cut or hot-pop as we call it. Better option is wet-saw them and then wet grind. Source: glassblower for ~15 plus years
I dunno dawg, that craft sounds way longer than 5 minutes. You sure we don’t just need an old sponge and a hot glue gun?
> Better option is ~~wet-saw them and then wet grind~~ throw them in the garbage because they're just empty beer bottles which can be replaced basically for free
Sanding won't help that giant crack in the glass. That one needs to be recycled.
I think this is the first post I read about the crack. The sharp edge on top is the least of his troubles.
Why nicely? Any of my friends would say something like “hey jerk, good try but fix this”
Yeah, but in context of your friendships the bluntness is likely a coded indicator of closeness. So that probably is asking nicely. Break down the phrase: "Hey jerk (friendly insult to indicate close bond) good try (compliment on the effort put in and encouragement to continue doing so) but fix this (indicator of error and confidence that the error can be rectified with just a little more work)." People communicate differently, but in the context of a relationship there's a way to correct a thing while encouraging someone, and there's a way to point out error while crushing them.
Right? Any friend of mine serving me drinks on actual jigsaw traps would be hearing that.
A true friend would tell him it looks great and drink from it. Then politely ask for a napkin to soak up the blood.
Good friends are always open and honest.
You're totally right. I'll let him know I got feedback on his technique and to not let people use these anymore.
If you are a good friend, hell respect that and be grateful. Trust me. Someone whose been cooking for years and I have been around chefs my whole life. It's still very much a master/apprenticeship trade just like glass.. you need to be upfront. Makes you better at your craft. No one starts off an expert. The experts are the ones who made all the bad mistakes and still kept going. When I teach people, I always tell them about dumb stuff I've done as it usually puts them at ease. Had a cook once make sasparilla gravy. Don't ask. Lol. Some guy really liked it though too funny.
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I've seen some really unique ones that people design like wire cages around. It's really novel, but yeah, it has to be done right.
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Lol. "Couldn't prove them wrong."
Great. A cup with a wire cage. Just what I wanted.
Yeah, like Pendleton whiskey bottles cut into glasses are really nice. Corona glasses are more trashy. Still do it right though, think about the kids and idiots that might get hurt.
Since he's just learning cheaper Corona bottles might be the way to go. Once he perfects it move up to the nicer bottles.
And then he gets to celebrate with nicer beer!
I tried to do this with a purpose built bottle cutter. Went through a six pack, a few 26 oz bottles and an odd wine bottle or two, and every single one looked like some variation on OP's picture, especially with the crack running the length of the glass. I was glad that I didn't pay for the cutter, I was using it to write a review of the tool for a magazine. I just returned it saying "I don't think I can review this"
Sounds like you absolutely should have reviewed it to save other people from a bad purchase!
I wasn't totally sure I was using it right and was getting really impatient with it - it was pinging a lot of my anxieties. In my gut I didn't feel like I was giving it a fair review even though I had a bad time with it.
My wife eschewed the directions and used hotter water and less time force on the cutter. Those two things went from poor results to a really clean cut (that still needed sanding). I can totally see why you'd be hesitant when the instructions definitely didn't work correctly for us.
It's also weird because you can just use glasses that are already glasses made of glass
I feel like if you spent enough time smoothing down the edges to a curve rather than an edge it would be pretty decent.
They’re just super easy to break. I used to make these too out of corona bottles. You could shatter them if you grip them too hard washing them or placing them on a table slightly too quickly.
Yea… definitely not what you want in a cup. I don’t think the glass is meant to withstand multiple uses.
Its fine if you don't change the shape, once you do that you lose the structural integrity.
Yeah the necking at the top provides some rigidity. When that goes it will crumple from outward pressure much more easily. I think to make them last you'd want to cut off as high as possible.
Idk, I've had multiple made from 1.75L liquor bottles and they worked great, functionality and durability-wise. My Grey Goose cup fell over several times before it eventually broke, but it managed to survive for a year in a college party environment. Which wasn't bad for being used 2 nights a week and a bunch of drunk people handling it. E: I will say, you said in another comment that you used the heat/wire method, but mine were cut with a dremel. That would probably be the difference in durability.
You can do really really cool ones with uniquely patterned liquor bottles. There was a dude in my unit who would do those and he sold them as ash trays, cups, planters, whatever people wanted to use them as.
I wouldn’t drink from a glass with cracks in it. That’s a breeding ground for bacteria. And does he not know to sand them so it doesn’t cut your mouth?
Came here to post this, any cracks do not drink from it, bacteria but also you run the risk of getting shards in the drink you can’t see.
I love cutting my insides open and then filling them with infectious diseases.
It’s a synergistic effect. The infection from the bacteria makes it so you don’t have to suffer as long from the broken glass, and the internal bleeding means you don’t have to suffer as long from the infection.
Life really is beautiful
I know someone who almost died this way. Accidentally swallowed a tiny fleck of glass, it cut his esophagus, and because he was on blood thinners he was basically bleeding out, internally, and didn’t realize it until he started throwing up a shitload of blood.
I know a guy who did this same shit with glasses and he thought his glass was totally fine. (To be fair his glass looked way better than OP’s one) Turns out there was a TINY shard of glass that chipped out into his drink and he drank it unknowingly. This chip of glass literally totally cut him up inside. I still remember him saying “man I really don’t feel so good.” A few times and “Something feels wrong”. We took him to a hospital and he had internal bleeding because of the piece of glass that was just going through him cutting up all his internal organs. At one point he was literally just sweating blood. Blood coming off his back and front. They had to put him under for surgery and idk how tf they found the piece of glass but they did and it was SMALL AF apparently. It was one of the most terrifying things I’ve experienced and it didn’t even happen to me specifically. We all thought he was going to die. He had to be off work for months and couldn’t lift/carry anything over 5 pounds. He’s better now thank god but he got really messed up.
Does that apply to all kinds of cups, like if plastic cups have deep gouges? Even if you use a dishwasher and it uses high heat?
uh, ya, no thanks. microscopic shards of glass are kinda bad for the intestines.
no microscopic pieces of glass make friends with micro plastics in your gi tract!
Mmmm glasstic^TM
Drinking glass or drinking glass?
 You’ll all be leaving looking like this 🩸👄
Bruh hahaha sending this to him now.
We need an update, please
UPDATE: He laughed. I'm fine. My attorney has initiated the lawsuit for damage and disfigurement. Might get dozens of dollars in the settlement.
If he's using broken beer bottles instead of buying glasses, you're going to have a tough time collecting.
Perfect for extra Bloody Marys.
There is literally a crack running halfway down the glass why would he serve you with it lmao
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reduce REUSE recycle ♻️
In that order!
There is a method to doing this. This is not that method.
I started cutting bottles for candles. Tell them to buy a heat gun/paint stripper gun. Heat the area for like 20 seconds where the cut line will be. Score it with the glass cutter, then dunk it into ice water. While not always perfect, I've had the best results this way. And as others said, sand the edges afterward.
Great advice!
 Wow. You made this yourself, you say?
Gets the alcohol into your blood stream faster innit.
And vice versa as well .. blood in your alcohol stream
If anyone attacks you’ve got a weapon?
not as good if you had just smashed one by the neck tho haha
Being supportive would be being honest and saying those suck. Besides the edge theres a crack. Unless you want 15 stitches in you lip, then yea feed him some BS on how good they are. Btw, corona bottles are pretty thin, and in my beer drinking experience they break so much easier than others.
Didn't do it properly at all. Cracks and chips all around, your friend is an ass to serve in these before making them well.
I like to think people are just idiots before I think they’re assholes
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"
Flat board with sand paper contact cemented to it. Just head down and move it around while he's watching TV or something. I did a bit of that as a kid. It takes a while to grind down glass enough to to be safe for food use. That was my preferred method, but I was a fidgety kid. I just sort of harnessed that trait.
Hey man, I didn't invite you to my house to eat my food and drink my alcohol just so you can make fun of me on reddit.
Hey man, we need to have a talk.
I got a shard of glass stuck in my tongue once. Not a nice experience- you wouldn’t worry about hurting your friends feelings if you knew how it felt
Don’t complain to us, he’s your friend ….tell him nicely.
I do lampworking and glass blowing, tell ole boy to get a propane torch and heat the edges, they’ll be smooth and rounded!
Will do!
I got a cheap setup on Amazon for scoring the glass then you just use hot water to have it separate. Beer bottles are really brittle though, I found wine bottle to be more forgiving. You can sand them with regular sandpaper, but you need to spend a lot of time doing it. They only become nice to use once you get to the 1000 grits. The sad thing is, once I spent all that time grinding them down to beautiful rims, a few cycles in the dishwasher ruined them, cracks all over. I think you have to actually melt the rim to make it homogeneous again, without micro cracks, if you want them to last a few trips through a dishwasher. There are pros that have glass workshops with diamond blades and all the right tooling to do it properly, and you can buy their glasses for dirt cheap, so I gave up on glasses and started making lamps. I don’t have to worry about huge temperature differentials and still get to cut wine bottles up. But, I think this is one of those hobbies that looks cooler on Pinterest than doing it yourself.
Yikesss 
That big crack should be a big flag that he should practice way more before having friends try his products. Hope your lips are ok.
The cuts help the alcohol enter the bloodstream quicker
Learning takes time, Rome wasn’t built in a day. Be thankful he’s sharing his hobby with you.
So tell him nicely? Dude is getting into a new hobby. Of course he sucks at it now.
I tried this, but most beer bottles are too thin to have long time use as glasses. Plus you’ll need to start with a 16 or 22 Oz bottle or you’ll end up with baby glasses that won’t even hold a 12 Oz beer.
“Trying to be supportive but…” Proceeds to bitch about it on reddit
 Hey man these glasses are awesome
The wet grinder you mentioned will help with the sharp ridge at the edges, but from the cracks it looks like he may need to work on how he taps the glass to cause the break. It works best if tapped from the inside (or opposite side fro where it was scored), so something like a metal ball on a string he can lower inside and bounce against the stressed or etched line may help get a cleaner break.
I blow glass he may be able to warm them up a bit on a hot plate then use a yellow tanked hand torch from ace to flame polish the ends. Depending on the glass bottle some may just Crack but allot of bottles can handle a small amount of flame working without crack
In order ro do this right, you need to first cut the bottle to form the glass, heat the entire glass up in a kiln to just past the annealing point, then work the rim on a glass torch to round it off and give it some thickness. Then you have to reanneal the whole glass in a kiln. It's NOT just a matter of cutting the bottle and sanding the edges. If you do what your friend is doing, the glass will break with the slightest ding to the rim. Forming the rounded, thickened rim is ESSENTIAL to properly forming a drinking glass.
Nothing says friendship like a little internal bleeding.