Sugar glass cup

[PatsO]

How to make a glass or a cup from sugar glass?
I thought about some cylinder forms, one a little bit smaller than another, but i don't know how to produce them.:confused:

[WesScog]

Here is my idea.

Get a glass, grease it up with spray, using a paper towel to spread it nice and evenly, pour it about half full with sugar glass mixture, and get enough glass that is smaller than the first glass, and grease it up too, and push it down into the half full glass (Hey! It's an optimist glass) it will displace sugar glass fluid, and it should be just about the height of the glass.

Make sure to grease up BOTH glasses well, if you don't in the morning you'll have two glasses stuck together, and they will have to soak for a LONG TIME to unstick them.

Or worse, you try to pull them apart too hard, and the glasses break.

SO BE CAREFUL, if at all possible use plastic glasses, and NO TEXTURED GLASSES, textured or weird shaped glasses will make it unable to pop out your sugar glass.

But pretend it went well, and you should have a lovely sugar glass after it's done drying.

Now that it's out, you can make it look like another kind of glass by scratching patterns into it, sticking labels or stickers to it, or painting it.

Don't paint it too heavy, or it might not break as well.

TO make a fake beer bottle (like they used in Shanghai Knights when Jackie Chan was trying to cheer up Owen Wilson at the bar, he bashed himself over the head with a sugar bear bottle) you'll have to make colored sugar glass by dying it while it's still boiling.

You'll most likely need a dremel for this, and you'll want to be careful, get goggles and gloves.

At the part of the bottle where it starts to converge into the neck of the bottle, cut below that, when you remove the mold you won't want anything catching when you try to remove it.

Well clean it up nicely, grease it up, and push it together and tape it up well.

then, pour the colored sugar glass fluid into it, and get a greased balloon animal, long type balloon, and push it into the bottle and blow it up until the liquid almost comes out of the top.

After it dries (it'll take a bit longer than the open glass like in the BFX video), pop the balloon, and remove the tape, and pull the top and bottom parts of the bottle apart.

then GENTLY pull out the bottom section.

To add more realism, add the real label. It'll be a bit smaller than a normal beer bottle since it's a mold of the INSIDE of the bottle, but it shouldn't be to horribly noticeable.

If you need a perfect 1:1 sized bottle mold, then I suggest you get some bakeable polymer clay. Mold it around the bottle, (remove the label before you do this.) and bake it for the required hardening temperature.

After it hardens, cut along the edges with a knife, and make a top and bottom mold.

Discard the bottle, and squeeze the mold together, and tape it up firmly.

Pour the sugar liquid in again, and do the trick with the balloon again.

Remember to grease the inside of the mold before you continue. The Polymer should take it fine.

Blow the balloon up again, and voila, you have a perfect 1:1 copy of a beer bottle.

Just remove the tape after you're sure it's dry, and cut it open. If it was too liquidy some of it may have gotten in the space between the molds, to minimize this, use a VERY thin knife to cut the mold apart, I suggest a razor.

And grease the space up BETWEEN the molds before you push it together, the Sugar won't squeeze into a place already taken by a grease.

To get the sugar brown colored, mix equal parts red and orange food coloring, with blue, and maybe a little green. (Unless you're doing a Heineken bottle, at which point ONLY green and yellow coloring)

But mostly blue, yellow, and red, stir it around, and hold it up to the light until you're happy with the color, before you mix it into the sugar.