Sorting through a collection of seaglass from my sister.

[dillyd@turtleisland.social]

@groovemd yes!

[lyra_silvertail@mastoart.social]

@dillyd beautiful 😻

[faithfulljohn@mastodon.scot]

@dillyd Lovely! Seaglass used to be so common on Scottish beaches. But plastic has replaced glass bottles, and they are now scarce, and not usually thrown into the sea. So there's not much new seaglass, and the old seaglass fragments are getting worn down to smaller size, and vanishing. I think seaglass in beach deposits will be a little bit of future stratigraphy concentrated in deposits stabilised during the 19th and 20th centuries.

[jlperuyero@masto.nobigtech.es]

@dillyd
I don't know if it is possible to drill a hole in them, but they look fine for a necklace. Somehow they look like jelly beans to me.

[dillyd@turtleisland.social]

@FaithfullJohn
Very interesting. Seaglass is so much more romantic than sea plastic, isn't it?

[dillyd@turtleisland.social]

@jlperuyero
I would be afraid of cracking them, but I suppose I could practice first on the more common shapes. I was thinking of wrapping them with wire, but then I wouldn't be able to feel the glass shapes.

[jlperuyero@masto.nobigtech.es]

@dillyd
My opinion is to look for advice first. Among workers from a glass shop, jewelry or alternatively an odontologist. Someone skilled with a high speed diamond-bit drilling machine. And there ends my scarce knowledge on the topic.

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@dillyd @jlperuyero the one time I drilled a hole in a piece of seaglass I used a dremel (clone), a diamond tip, and worked under water, following some tutorial found online, and it worked quite nicely and easily

of course I was using a common shape of green glass, and not the good ones :D

I don't know whether those tutorials can still be found on 2026 internet :(

(edit: typo in dremel)

[dillyd@turtleisland.social]

@valhalla @jlperuyero
Thank you for the points! Now I don't even have to look for the tutorial 😊

[enriquericos@mastoart.social]

@jlperuyero @dillyd That sounds about right, any Dremel-like rotary tool with the proper bit should do it. I have more experience with stone, but I've drilled some holes on glass, so it is doable.

Thing is, that was ages ago and I don't remember which bits or speeds to use 🤦‍♂️

[enriquericos@mastoart.social]

@jlperuyero @dillyd According to past me's notes (turns out I had notes on this), you want a tungsten carbide bit and use very low speeds. I think I used water but I didn't jot that down.

[dillyd@turtleisland.social]

@enriquericos @jlperuyero
That's already very helpful, thanks!

[hellybootwader@mastodon.scot]

@dillyd do you think the teardrop shapes would have been stoppers for bottles?
We sometimes find glass or ceramic balls that would have sat in a bottle neck blocking the neck when upright but able to move upwards (to a limited extent) and allow the liquid to pour out

[dillyd@turtleisland.social]

@Hellybootwader
Yes I thought something like that. I'm not an expert, of course.

My sister told me there was a certain brand of bottles that came with an embedded marble in the neck, but they're very rare to find whole, because kids would break the bottles to use the marbles.

[tarnport@mastodon.green]

@dillyd @Hellybootwader

I believe it's a reference to cod-neck bottles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codd-neck_bottle

[hellybootwader@mastodon.scot]

@Tarnport
Sounds right, I never knew the name. Just found fragments of the bottle necks and the ‘marbles’
@dillyd

[dillyd@turtleisland.social]

@Tarnport @Hellybootwader yes!

[ginevracat@toot.community]

@dillyd @meganL So gorgeous.