How do you get your bottles so shiny!

[Lisa]

Hi.

The pictures of your old bottles are unbelievable. How do you clean them and get them to come out so shiny?

Lisa

 

[Tony14]

you have to clean them the best you can with a brush (bottle brushes, toothbrushes, etc)
and if you still have stuff that may resemble whit film (sickness) you will have to get it tumbled

 

[madman]

hey lisa believe it or not i just use dish soap and hot water let them soak overnite, for rust spots i use a scrubber sponge, theres a product thats called bar keepers friend, you can get at the grocery store good luck mike

 

[IRISH]

Hi Lisa, welcome to the forum [] .
Some bottles come out mint and shiny with just a wash, some are so bad they can barely be polished, it all depends on the conditions they have been in for the past hundred or so years.
Bottles out of the clay soils and creeks around here (in the hills east of Melbourne Australia) come out in amazing mint condition due to the acidic soil, from the other side of the city they are often dull due to alkaline volcanic ash in the soil leeching the glass.

 

[glopf43]

Hello Lisa, There are many great (and a few not so great) ideas for getting bottles to shine in the "Cleaning and Repairing..." forum! Bar Keepers Friend works good. But there's nothing like a good "tumble" []!