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Wedding Champagne Flutes

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Project Planning Begins

Well the planning and procurement phase for this project has begun. The 60 champagne flutes have been ordered from Craft Supplies USA and a special thanks to Lynda Glade of CSUSA for her assistance.

Next part of the planning phase is to evaluate responses from turning stock supplies and order the turning stock.

Last piece to the puzzle is to find a local shop to etch the champagne flutes and then let the turning begin.

Stay tuned next report will hopefully be from the shop.



Cheers
Mike
 
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The back story.

In a weak moment of fatherly love I agreed to produce the champagne flutes with turned wood stems for my our youngest daughter's wedding in late January. She is having a modest wedding, mostly family, and the champagne flutes will be used for the toast to the bride and groom and then the guests can keep them as wedding favors.

Thanks for the comments
 
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Planning done - preparation begins

Well it's been almost four weeks since I started this project - my how time flies.
The champagne flutes all 60 of them arrived from Craft Supplies USA about 2 weeks ago and have since been shipped to Ken at Kallenshaan Woods for laser etching. Ken is shipping a couple of etched flutes back and as soon as they arrive I will post pictures in my next blog entry.

I selected Ron Trout (TreeBones on this site) to supply the turning lumber. We settled on walnut and a very nice tiger oak. About a week ago all 100 lbs. of timber arrived - I'm sure my postman will never speak to me again. Ron provided 4 pieces of oak 3.5×3.5×36 inches and several pieces of beautiful walnut.
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While waiting for the supplies to arrive I began turning some prototypes of the bases in some maple stock I had on hand. There is a reason we do prototypes. First 3 attempts I cut right thru the stems trying to get the shape just right. Turns out the holes drilled in the end grain for the stem were drilling at an angle - oops. Got a better drill bit at Sears last weekend and the last prototype in the picture below - labeled #1 turned out to be much better and met with the approval of my quality inspector - LOML. Right now she prefers the base on #2 and the lines of prototype #1 so back to the lathe tonight for prototype #6.
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Last night I cut one of the oak stock and one of the walnut timbers into blanks and rough turned 4 of the oak and one of the walnut blanks. Moisture content of the walnut is 9% but the oak was reading at 25%. So I going to rough turn the oak, put a tenon on the base end and put they in brown paper bags of a bit to dry them out before turning the the flute bases to size.
 
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