At last, our Buckfast bottles have been put to good use ! We are now proud to be the Saltmarket's only purveyors of unique hand-crafted Buckfast timepieces..
The Buckfast Clocks are now on sale.
The bottles are lovingly collected from the more salubrious parts of Glasgow's fair city and delivered to our workshop by many of the local 'characters' who inhabit these environs.
They are stored in our drinks cabinet (you can see the picture to the left ) where the glass is aged and allowed to stand. the bottles are then ready to go through the arduous and time-consuming journey to clockhood...
Washed thoroughly, with their labels carefully removed, the bottles are then placed in one of our kilns on the specially prepared and balanced kiln shelves, and heated to only the highest temperatures. Indeed, the programme takes the heat up to over 800 degrees ! The bottles slowly collapse, or 'slump' as the process is known in the trade, and cool down. A sneeky peek through the glory hole during this process reveals an incredibly shiny bright orange knob of glass. the bottles are then removed from the kiln, cleaned again, drilled and the clock face fitted. After the labels have been reglued, the clock is then ready for sale....and you can find them in our showroom or on the website for mail order
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