Re-Purposed Glass

[dr4g0nfly]

Hi folks,

I often see old jars and the like bereft of lids. But people pass them on as the are attractive they are hopeful that someone will finds a use for them.

Eventually it hit me, I'm a turner, make them new lids... I'm now on a mission, old (attractive) jars or lonely lids are going to get the other bit made for them.

The small jar has a Bog Oak lid, finished with the new Mylands metallic spirit stains.

The Perfume Bottle, well it's a bit of beech but I've painted it in Black Japlac.

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[Pat]

D'fly, good idea. Might be something to look at, at garage sales - cheap good looking bottles and male a suitable lid.

[Dalboy]

Great idea and makes them look great as you say shame to throw them out just because someone has lost/broken the tops

[Scott]

Great idea!

[brendan stemp]

That would make a really good Club project. A good intro into lidded container making; ie just make the lid (and finial, it could be an option). And recycle at the same time.:2tsup:

[hughie]

Aha what a good idea. How about cutting the screw threads on the lid?

[artme]

Neat!!:2tsup::2tsup::2tsup:

[dr4g0nfly]

Aha what a good idea. How about cutting the screw threads on the lid?

The small pot does have threads or at least one going around the rim once. I debated trying out a method but thought better of it.

My idea was to coat the thread in silicon or at least WD40, then wrap polymer clay around and make the lid a little loose giving room to squeeze it over. When set, twist off and tidy up.

Anyone any other ideas?

[wheelinround]

D'fly, good idea. Might be something to look at, at garage sales - cheap good looking bottles and male a suitable lid.

After more brownie points Pat :U I can see this will be the excuse for "I'm off to another garage sale Deb just to look for bottles to make for you"..............."yeh right tools hunting again" says Deb :p

[tea lady]

My idea was to coat the thread in silicon or at least WD40, then wrap polymer clay around and make the lid a little loose giving room to squeeze it over. When set, twist off and tidy up.

Exceptthe polymer clay has to go in the oven. A bit to hot for the wood I think. :think:

[TTIT]

Good job with the lids! I've got a bit of a collection in the bottom of a cupboard myself for the same purpose :B

Aha what a good idea. How about cutting the screw threads on the lid?I've looked at doing this before . . . but just never got around to trying it :B. Most of those jar threads have from 2 to 4 'leads' so I reckon you could get away with cutting a single bead the same size as the threads on the inside of the lid, then remove all but small sections of the bead to engage the glass threads. :think: . . . . well it makes sense to me :C