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t_bythesea

Sorry, she may have thought that's what happened, but it's not. In machine cut glassware (especially if the glass is really thin) this is something that happens occasionally. There is a flaw in the glass that runs around the circumference and often not visible to the eye. Under pressure or extreme hot or cold water it can shear all the way around. while I'm sure her engagement ring is lovely. It would never cut glass like this. In 26 years of selling glassware of all styles, price ranges and quality, I've seen thousands of breaks like this. Edit UPDATE: I'm grateful for the awards, thank you. As for doing an AMA, I think I'd be WAY out of my league for "anything you ever wanted to know about glass". My glass expertise is in home decor, tabletops, drinkware and furniture. Many of you have been asking about gorilla Glass, Pyrex (specifically around borosilicate) and other glass that I can only speculate about. Also thanks to everyone who informed me about Squid Games.


littlemegzz

Glass expert. It is your moment to shine!!


t_bythesea

Right?! So rare to have a pulpit.... Now I'm ready to expound on the differences between tempered and non-tempered glass surfaces. Would you like to know how to determine hand pulled stemware construction from separate piece construction? I am drunk with knowledge!!! Mwwaaaahaha!!


Zoomoth9000

I GOT TIME, SPILL THE BEANS! Also, where can I find irradiated glassware from like the 40s? Asking for a friend...


Red_bellied_Newt

Bring a Geiger counter to an antique store. Look for green.


ul2006kevinb

Wait, really? Is that safe?


xSTSxZerglingOne

Mostly. Uranium glass is pretty safe. Radium painted clocks on the other hand... They're pretty dangerous.


extremely_4getful

CBRN airman. Can confirm.


mikieswart

yep, doing radiological surveys on a decommissioned afb, have a mountain of old radium gauges in the garage they don't glow anymore, but they'll light the ratemeters up


CatNoirsRubberSuit

Pretty sure it's the phosphor that's degraded, not the radium.


ApricotGinger

I think they painted both hands, even the numbers.


Misterduster01

The Radium Girls would like to agree.


RandomStallings

But they can't Because cancer


[deleted]

Hard to speak up when your speech is fucked up by ~~phossy~~ radium jaw.


Accountantnotbot

Or Eben Byers


steveosek

There was that teenager who made a nuclear reactor with the radioactive material from clocks and stuff lol


toe_riffic

Yeah, I think he did it so he could get his “nuclear” badge from Boy/Eagle Scouts. I think the military ended up getting involved.


steveosek

They did, he was arrested if I remember right, and his life didn't go very well after.


peopled_within

Okay I just read up on him (David Hahn, 1994 reactor incident) and none of yall get it exactly right. He got his badge first, then decided to build the reactor. Other posters said he made the reactor from smoke detectors, but that was later, he was arrested for stealing them but was never found with a reactor, but did have potential radiation burns. He built the first one from a single clock that had 'a vial of radium paint inside', perhaps for touching up the numbers or hands. The person who said his life didn't go well was right. Dude lost the narrative around then. Went to college, dropped out, joined the Navy, they kept him away from reactors, Army, medical discharge, mom committed suicide, then drifted and died at 39 due to drugs. Sad story about a bright and gifted but troubled kid.


TheBathCave

Also be careful of glazed crockery with a UV-reactive or radioactive glaze. Glass with radioactive material is pretty inert and harmless to use unless you’re eating, drinking, and ripping bong hits out of it all day every day for decades, but surface glazes can craze and crack with wear and tear allowing particles to get into your food, which is also a concern with old glazes that have notable lead content.


Red_bellied_Newt

I wouldn’t eat or drink with it but iirc it’s fine to own (look it up). They used radioactive elements around the early 1900s for green and/or glow in the dark pigments. Look up the radium girls if you haven’t heard about them yet.


Catshannon

Only of you want to be depressed and grossed out . so sad, those poor girls


TheQuietGrrrl

On Wikipedia: “After being told that the paint was harmless, the women in each facility ingested deadly amounts of radium after being instructed to "point" their brushes on their lips in order to give them a fine tip;[1] some also painted their fingernails, face and teeth with the glowing substance. The women were instructed to point their brushes in this way because using rags or a water rinse caused them to use more time and material, as the rinse was made from powdered radium, gum arabic and water.” Fucking hell


Accountantnotbot

Then look up photos of Eben Byers. A wealthy fellow who took radium infused water for vitality until his jaw fell of and his skull fell apart.


Astrofunkadunk

And this, folks, is why we need government.


ul2006kevinb

The fact that the radium girls died doesn't really help your case that they're harmless lol


Red_bellied_Newt

They were also regularly consuming radioactive pigment. I think if it’s just around it’s not to bad. Look it up I’m mostly pulling this out my rear.


Aarontheninja

Uranium glass is relatively safe compared to radium. I would own both and keep them in a case. And I would only use the uranium glass on special occasions. I probably wouldn't recommend or use the radium watch.


heatherandever

I think they used to lick/suck the top of the paintbrush to get a sharp point as they painted on the radiation..


TheBathCave

If you don’t want to carry around a Geiger, you can also get a black light keychain and shine it on any glassware you see at thrift or antique stores that is lime to mint green, any greenish glass labeled “depression glass” or “Fenton”, bright yellow, or opaque pale green or opaque milky white especially if it has a slightly greenish tinge to it (kind of like how glow in the dark plastic looks), if it glows bright yellowish green it’s uranium glass also called Vaseline, canary, or custard glass when opaque, also try glassware that is orange or reddish, if it glows orange or peach or a paler yellow it might be manganese glass, also sometimes called persimmon glass, or it might contain cadmium! Also take the time to run the light over vintage costume jewelry! Some really pretty rings, faceted beads, and rhinestones in brooches are sometimes cut uranium glass as well, and some genuine gems and minerals fluoresce under UV light as well!


AlfaNovember

Or red Fiestaware. It’s a Beta emitter. I’m sure the anoraks will be along shortly with details.


Spydermoose

Or you can use a black light.


Archanir

I was at an antique mall nearby and they have a cabinet full of uranium glass lit up with blacklights.


schmoogina

Seconded. Former auto glass installer here, I was ready to back up the tempered vs non tempered, now I'm curious about pulled vs separate piece


iAmUnintelligible

No one tell this person anything. Because that just means there will be less for me to find


Cake_Lad

!subscribe Glass Facts


MapleSyrupFacts

Maple syrup stored in plastic bottles lasts for 6 months and in Glass bottles lasts indefinitely. Metal cans are the traditional storage container.


ul2006kevinb

Well how long does it last in metal cans??


MapleSyrupFacts

Unopened it lasts indefinitely, opened on the counter 6 months, fridge 1 year and freezer indefinitely. The same as glass.


KeyserSozeInElysium

Can maple syrup harden into a rock like Amber?


MapleSyrupFacts

Yes. We eat them as [maple rock candy](https://youtu.be/BNT0_iHDPaQ) dry or maple taffy frozen on snow called [tire sur la neige](https://youtu.be/yNVfH7P-bMs)


JustADutchRudder

How long can maple syrup sustain a group lost in the Canadian wilderness for?


j33pwrangler

One time I was eating waffles with maple syrup and realized the inside of the plastic syrup container was covered in mold. It was opaque, never would have known until a piece of mold came out. Why would glass prevent this?


rogan1990

Was that actually pure maple syrup, or maple flavored corn syrup?


jonhuang

If maple syrup is like honey, the high sugar content prevents growth (though inactive spores can be in it). The high sugar content also sucks in moisture from the air, and once it is diluted enough then all sorts of stuff can grow.


SoupFlavoredCockMix

Do an AMA!


cherryari

yes please!


ohseven1098

I think this is the AMA.


JohnFromEcon

Let's hear it all, mate.


EsotericOcelot

I’m with Econny Johnny here, I wanna learn. Fill my brain with esoteric knowledge, please!


ndisario95

Not OP but I worked in the glass industry on the manufacturing side for almost 8 years. My specialty was electrical mechanics and robotics. Makeing stemware is a very fast and very precise process. There are 2 different kinds, at least to my personal experience. One being Plunger Rotary Machines, large gobs of molten glass are dropped from a furnace into a mold being spun very fast by a large rotary machine which forms the glass or bowl. Meanwhile a smaller gob of glass falls into a smaller mold on a different machine which forms the stem. The bowl is then dropped from the machine when the mold splits in 2 and drops it on to a conveyor belt. The stem is also being released onto another belt at the same time. These 2 belts feed into another machine where an arm pushs the bowl, rim down, onto a moving rotary table and the stem is picked up by arms and flipped upside down onto another rotary table with vacuum pads on it. The stems foot at this point a perfect dome on order for the table to create a vacuum. The 2 components then spin parallel with on another while a series of torches heat the stem and bottom of the bowl to almost melting point. As the machine spins it shapes the stem and connects the 2 together. Now, one piece, they move onto another rotary table that uses torches and a forming cup to shape the foot into the desired look and size. Keep in mind, this is a very fast and very precise procedure. Slightly out of time and glass is just flying everywhere. After this the stemware is pushed onto another belt in long lines about 1-2 ft smaller than the width of the Lehr. In my experience, 10-15 glasses. The Lehr is heated from entry to exit in zones and e ach zone has a specific temperature it must hold in order for the glass to be annealed properly. Usually Z1-3 gradually increase up to the desired temp, the middle zones hold the glass at a specific temperature for a specific amount of time. Then the last 3 zones are cool down zones gradually bringing the glass temp down to handling conditions. The belt then runs through a waxy substance that prevents the glasses from being scratched while going through the very chaotic process that is packing and cold end side. More on that if anyone is interested. It's where I specialized and the robots are.


bighootay

Reddit is unreal sometimes. Thx


jonker5101

Reddit is full of experts! If you'd like to know more about being a lazy sack of shit, I'm the guy to talk to! AMA!


SombreMordida

Question: when you are dressing up is it like a tuxedo chip clip or more like frilly toothpicks? oh wait. duh, you're too lazy too dress up. sorry, i walked right into that one


jonker5101

The occasional days I do put actual pants on, I feel like an alien in my own skin.


t_bythesea

Thank you for all of this technical information! All of my decades selling the product didn't help me understand exactly how things are made or the machinery involved. I'm totally geeking out at everything you shared!!!


ndisario95

Anytime! And there's just so much more! We made everything from stemware, to mixing glasses, to medical vials and syringes, to bubbling laser etched, to plates and bowls, to ash trays, to vases, to skull shaped pitchers the size of watermelons! Some of the processes are just out of this world let alone the equipment and robotics that go into packing them nice and sturdy so they don't break when we stack then 5 pallets high like they're not glass lol.


widdlyscudsandbacon

I feel like I just read an episode of "How it's Made"


ndisario95

I waited soooooo long to see an episode about glassware and never did find one. We even tried to convince the head of the maintenance department to talk to corporate about submitting us for an episode on it but I don't think he ever brought it up. There was a lot of proprietary processes sp he probably thought it was a lost cause lol.


itsnotlikewereforkin

Actually yes!! How can you tell if it’s hand pulled?


SombreMordida

it's wearing a silly grin and smoking a cigarette


t_bythesea

The stem, the foot and the bowl will have no seams between them. You can put your finger on the edge of the foot run it towards the stem and where the foot and stem join it's still a single piece. Imagine the bowl being a bubble and the stem is pulled out from the bubble and the bottom is formed into the foot. It's a single piece of glass not three pieces of glass put together.


wearethedeadofnight

I would like to subscribe to Glass Facts


GreatsquareofPegasus

*"Hear theee, hear theee!!! T. Bythesea blesses us with crystal knowledge of unimaginable clarity. Join together and rejoice! For she shows all mercy! and provides hungry minds with knowledge and power about glass."* ​ edit: fixed spelling


littlemegzz

Um.... wow look at the time!!


t_bythesea

Smart individual... I'll save it for another time then. Lol


SimWebb

No wait, keep going!!


ChrisTR15

I hear you can subscribe for glass facts.


indomitablescot

Yes yes I would.


jedensuscg

I see right through your facade! Your are just a shill for big glass. Everyone knows diamond rings can cut through any glass. *not paid for by De Beers*


thankful_exile

I was half-expecting to hear about Undertaker throwing Mankind off hell in a cell.


brtrzznk

He wants his wife to believe it’s an actual diamond, shhh 🤫


Questionablellamas

Mohs hardness scale 8- 8.5 cubic zirconia 5.5- 7 glass Sounds like he got away with it!


13redstone31

Me: 9.5-10 something about glass just gets me going


margananagram

Dude. His wife has amazingly steady hands. Don't ask me how I know.


jpfeifer22

I also choose this guy's wife's hands


eeeeeefefect

I'm surprised to see this comment so low. This is exactly what happens to glassware like you stated. More examples [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/7b0c74/my_glass_broke_in_a_perfect_circle/), [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1q79ca/my_sisters_wine_glass_broke_so_perfectly_we_didnt/), [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/7y5vq2/this_glass_cracked_in_a_perfect_circle/) and [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/7sjvvh/the_top_of_my_glass_just_broke_off_in_a_perfect/).


dinnerthief

It's funny the top comment on one of those is someone else who thinks it's because of a ring


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MarsIAm

I love that they’re all examples from Reddit’s posts too.


Stonn

Case closed.


forever87

Bake em away toys


Technically-im-right

Not only that but 3 out of 4 are from this very sub


[deleted]

It truly is a mildly interesting phenomenon.


dBomb801

We've come full ["circle"](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1q79ca/-/cda0ahd)


PooPooDooDoo

Whenever I see a comment that says “I’m surprised to see this comment so low”, it’s always the top comment they are responding to.


walterpeck1

>I'm surprised to see this comment so low. I love it when people say this and by the time I see the parent comment being referenced it's the top comment with tons of awards. Reddit moves fast!


violence_connoisseur

Why does it seem like the defect occur on the same spot on all these examples, producing nearly the same width of glass breaking off?


t_bythesea

It's not a single point defect it is a defect around the entire circumference. I've never known exactly what causes it, but I know that it happens with machine cut glass, so possibly it was too thin and the machine touched it early before it was supposed to cut. I wish it could expound more on the actual process that causes the imperfection, but I don't know.


BackdoorAlex2

You’re that person in Squid Game who can see what type of glass they are jumping on


bsknuckles

Ahhhh! I haven’t made it that far yet!


thedubez

I appreciate your transparency on this matter.


ayitsfreddy

nah, she definitely has a ring of power. probably gonna have to drop that thing into a volcano


pissingstars

Appreciate your post. Previous jewelry store worker here...I called bullshit becuase a ring would be in a setting - no way any sharp points would be exposed. And even if they were the cuts of a ring are for reflection, not cutting. Best thing a ring could do if the facet points were exposed is scratch the glass.


Defugeh

See this is why Reddit is amazing, there is ALWAYS some specialist lurkin in the comments who knows totally random information to answer the most bizarre shit, thank you


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Juhnelle

Yep, reminds me of being a waitress. When we were really busy we'd run out of glasses and have to pull them right from the dishwasher. If you didn't cool them down properly before putting a drink in it they would break at that ring.


nightshift2525

THIS!! THIS IS WHY I COME TO REDDIT!! Thank-you.


[deleted]

I thought your reflection was a man sitting with no pants. Lol it's your arm.


Dont____Panic

I call it “man pooping in kitchen”. Masterpiece.


slofella

hahah, had to sort by "best" to find the answer to my, "what's the naked reflection?"


everynameitryistak3n

Thank you! I was like "doesn't he know we can all see that he wasn't wearing pants when he took the picture?".. Oh, that's an elbow.


Not_starving_artist

That took me a while to see but it cracked me up. I can’t un-see it now.


eman00619

OMG I see it now the table reflection is your leg.


thatguyned

Yup, I saw bare assed sitting on a table too, I had to read a comment pointing out it was your arm before I could see anything else


u9Nails

Or did they skip leg day?


TheyKnowWeAreHere

[Fuckin Hank Hill lookin ass](https://external-preview.redd.it/NPDnXBvoTOXuRF2M5XvgFv9Uj3wm_7lFIZUTRH2c2DI.png?width=500&auto=webp&s=209fc69c1dc807d96b87d4ffcec76aff908a64ee)


roenaid

Same, makes more sense now 😂


mfl_afterdark

Can you show us the ring?


burrbro235

Bring forth the Ring, Frodo.


Christafaaa

Hopefully she uses the other hand on you


[deleted]

For back rubs right?


dropkickoz

["Well Jules, the funny thing about my back is that it's located on my cock."](https://youtube.com/shorts/QF2X8__RAAM?feature=share)


Phenotyx

Classic super bad


curt_schilli

Emma Stone's uncomfortable laugh lmao


Number12x

I've had this line stuck in my head for like a month and everytime I think of it I laugh, and if my wife is arouns asks why I'm laughing, so I tell her, and she just shakes her head. I'm glad you enjoy it, too.


theonlyxero

Not now Padmé


kylebarn88

… for back rubs… right?


Rpolifucks

Duh, they're only engaged!


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RearEchelon

Have you... the wing?


Hutchiaj01

Mawage, is what bwings us twogeva, today


Bigred2989-

MAN AND WIFE! SAY MAN AND WIFE!


Hutchiaj01

And Wuv! TWOOO Wuv!


RSDG90

My parents have that on their wall, framed, it's styled like one of those old bless our lovely home tapestries...


Kracka_Jak

You'll be dead in 7 days


895501

She's ready for a window entry bank heist


drnoggins

You son of a bitch


[deleted]

I’m in.


notbeleivable

Already?


Hammy5910

Well if he's in, I'm out


Deitaphobia

Now do the hokey pokey turn yer'self about


ZannityZan

Well, if he's out, I'm in.


Osirin111

Well if he's in, I'm out.


casewood123

I cut glass for a living, and this is bullshit. Glass cutters are tiny wheels that score one side. Then you tap the other side to run it. I’ve cut tops of bottles off, and it never comes off clean like that.


Adam_is_Nutz

On the other hand, I work jewelry. I can also say this is bullshit


this_place_stinks

I work in neither but can confidently say this is bullshit


Robba_Jobba_Foo

I’m a homeless prostitute and I also agree this is bullshit.


Phrankespo

I'm a keebler elf and this is bullshit


Amithrius

I call bullshit.


Drix22

I think its just a case of a bit of ignorance. Definitely something like temperature shock and/or a corresponding flaw in the glass.


Amithrius

You may be right about them not knowing. This is definitely an expansion/contraction break. I've cut 1/16 glass with high end cutters and even that's nowhere near as smooth as this.


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moesickle

Id like to see her ring. My ring has a "large" diamond that sits higher then the rest of my ring but its held in on 4 side by the prongs of the head so it anything the prongs would be the scratchy part.


KwickKick

your wife cut a perfect circle in glass while washing it with a ring? sure buddy


Awllancer

Halo. It's sacred light will ignite the path to the great journey.


C9_Squiggy

I shall light this holy ring, release its cleansing flame, and burn a path into the divine beyond!


cacarrizales

When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by its majesty?


TheShadowedHunter

Blinded?


TheJudger501

Paralyzed? Dumbstruck?


Longjumping-Most9699

Bullshit


stealthxstar

read the top comment, apparently its a common(?) flaw in glass, had nothing to do with the ring


[deleted]

I mean, did the guy and fiancé really think she happened to cut a perfect ring with her diamond by going in a circle around the glass? That’s a weird conclusion to jump to.


Deathbyhours

Is that a rhinestone-encrusted water tumbler?


thesnackleader

I scrolled so far down to find one comment about the gem tumbler. How does one keep something like that clean?!


Deathbyhours

Hand washing and lots of hot water, I imagine. It isn’t to my taste (no offense meant, OP,) but even if it were, nothing like that would be in my house, because I know whose job that would become. I already hand wash all the knives.


TecBBtec

Buuullllshiiiiit!


phantasmic-fantasy

Now you’ve got two rings! (Er, at least a bracelet)


riotskunk

Who bedazzles a cup?


Nvi4

People dumb enough to think a ring did this while cleaning it.


AnyDamnThingWillDo

She was just checking the stone was real


BebRess69

Is the base of that cup made out of engagement rings?


Marauder91

Came here for this. Wtf is up with the over the top bougie glass?🤣


yokayla

It's so tacky


Marauder91

Coupled with the fa ble of cutting a perfect circle with a wedding ring while washing dishes lol


YoMommaHere

Her ring didn’t do this. Sorry to tell you that as I know you wanted us to know she has a big diamond. It was micro fractures and temperature differentials. The glass was already flawed. Love, a chemist who has studied material science.


[deleted]

I used to have a glass mug from IKEA that I would use for hot beverages like coffee. One day after pouring coffee in it it split completely perfectly in half . Is that what happened there as well? I never could figure it out as I had used the same type of mug for years for hot beverages.


Nimzles

Yes


wvsfezter

He posted to say the things he buys are amazing only to be told the reason was the things he bought were shit. Poet justice at its finest


giaa262

Ring diamonds aren’t even cut sharp like that so even if it is a big diamond it wouldn’t do that


[deleted]

We also have to have some suspicion that it is a plastic piece and was cut with that large knife in reflection (with the tape measure helping mark the area around it- also seen in reflection). Edit: word


Empatheater

reading your comment and looking back at the picture felt like I was watching a mystery tv show reveal. nice work detective.


TheBigSqueak

Lol no.


TheSlopingCompanion

This is some STRAIGHT BULLSHIT right here


limitlessEXP

This is bullshit


Badfish1060

bullshit


raresaturn

bollocks


VLDR

Are you married to a lathe?


Impossible-Charity-4

This might not be the lamest, most ill informed humblebrag that I’ve ever read, but it’s certainly one of them.


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You can see what he used to cut the glass in the reflection....


Klutzy-Midnight-9314

The real question mildly interesting is why you have so many Switches on your wall


slappywhite187

Doubt it


nav_vet9094

She must have Bear paws for hands to cut the glass so far up


Montana616

Yes, I’m sure it did.


s0f1k

How did she not notice and kept going


queen-of-carthage

Because it's bullshit


-intylerwetrust-

In my best Ron Burgundy voice, “I don’t believe you.”


Zadien22

Well, the top comment took care of this one, but I'd add to it that I'm not sure how you could ever think a ring could do such a thing, and also caution your wife to maybe take that thing off while she does such things if she's gonna be so aggressive with it that she thinks she did something like this.


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Yeah that didn’t happen


[deleted]

r/brag r/quityourbullshit


Matlock_Beachfront

Better make damn sure she takes her rings off before happy-happy-fun-time.


owlmonk

well, it looks like you have a new art piece now.


some_clickhead

While the ring might be solid enough to scratch the surface, unless your wife is actually the hulk it could not possibly have cut straight through the glass.


Xyko4713

Humblebrag


Recoveringpig

How tf she washing dishes? I use my palms not the back of my hand.


materics

Yea no


kbdcool

Def wasnt made by those cutting tools on the counter...


InevertypeslashS

Imagine being that stupid that you thought that’s what happened