here is a page that describes the technique for making a "stretchy bottle"
as i call them. i have close to a dozen that i picked up at flee markets. some date from the 60's or 70's when they were kind of pop weird. i bought my first one as a 12 year old, it was a pepsi. the original swirl design lent it self to the process. i also have a bunch of others including a moxi. i have seen beer bottles melted sideways into a plaster of paris tray to make ashtrays. plaster then broken off to reveal shaped glass. i have seen them corked with colored water or colored sand layers. i also had one with a cork and colored nylon spray (10" strands poking out from the cork) but some of the blue water had evaporated. i dont believe they can stretch them with the cap on and beer in. ill bet it was done after the stretch (cap and fill). a trick like putting a ship inside. like i said i got mine at a novelty shop (the barefoot mailman) at a mall as a kid but i think it became a flee market item for diyer to sell on the cheep and that that is the original source of most of the ones available today. but ive not actually ever seen someone stretching them live in a fleemarket booth as i described above. that was conjecture.
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- bill 9-08-2006 6:34 pm