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Well, my thread has got legs! I like the suggestion to use a square-faced milk bottle and the mention that antique leaded glass worked well. The curved glass examples are more oriented towards DE...

My guess is that using a curved glass bottle form would be akin to steeling. Maybe some distilled liquor flask would have served like a paddle? But if flatness was the goal, some sort of plate...

On a thread from long, long ago, I read that someone's grandfather recommended honing on a bottle as to the finish. Not that it necessarily yields a decent edge by contemporary standards, but the...