Have you ever tried cutting glass bottles?

I really enjoy meeting all the wonderful customers at the Farmer’s Market and the Craft Fairs. There are so many great stories people are willing to share. I find it so interesting to learn how many people have tried making their own glasses at home. Customers will tell me they bought a glass scorer kit and used hot and cold water to break wine bottles.  Break is the key word there as very few of these stories end in success. This is exactly how it all started at Peregrine Glassworks as well.

I remember the first day I started cutting glasses. All my supplies were ready. I had watched many online videos. I proudly took my first scored glass and using the hot and cold-water method, it broke along my score line and I had an almost perfect glass. I thought this glass cutting is easy. Out of the next twenty cutting attempts, I successfully only cut one more glass. Now I know why many of my customers did not persevere! However, I have figured out the process and now I can cut twenty glasses with few mistakes. It’s true that perservance is all that is needed for success. This quote by Johann Wolfgang van Goethe seems apt: “In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perserverance.”

- Hugh