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Maple, Walnut and Cherry over wine?
3 woods make up this unique (and fairly tall) wine bottle stopper. The maple is from the offcuts of my Maple Pub table legs. I must have saved just about every piece of scrap from that. (There’s still a descent sized slab and some odd offcuts left)
The teardrop shape helps lower the center of gravity to keep the stopper from toppling, even at nearly 5 inches from top to tip. The wood portion is 2 3/4” tall and 1 3/8 at it’s widest diameter, and is finished in boiled linseed oil. The stopper hardware is machined from a solid piece of stainless steel, not chrome plated that will flake off. Ever. So you can leave it in a nice bottle of Bordeaux for as long as you like, to no ill effect – not that anyone would wait that long.
This is the 5th item in my 30 day project/challenge
& auction.
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Karson
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posted 381 days ago
Very nice Scott. A great project.
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Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 381 days ago
This one of my favorites of your stoppers.
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scottb
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posted 381 days ago
Thanks! Incidentally Dick, this one (apart from gluing up the blank) just formed itself (and I had no catches requiring a redesign on the fly!)
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darryl
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posted 380 days ago
beauty in simplicity!
I like the shape and the walnut and cherry accent.
all the way around, one of my favorites!
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trifern
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posted 380 days ago
Great use of materials. Thanks for sharing, Scott.
-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.
Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 380 days ago
Sounds good Scott,
Sometimes when you do get a catch, you can make an improvement from the accident, but this one turned out OK.
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jockmike2
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posted 380 days ago
Beautiful Scott, very unique look. I like the different materials you used.
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MsDebbieP
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posted 380 days ago
bravo!
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Grumpy
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posted 379 days ago
Great use of different wood Scott. Nice job.
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Budgie
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posted 379 days ago
Like the contrasting wood. Good Job.
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Dusty56
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posted 378 days ago
Another beauty !!!
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Napaman
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posted 363 days ago
this is phenomenal….i love it…
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rikkor
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posted 363 days ago
How did I miss this? I am glad it came around again, it is very nice. Where do you get the SS stoppers?
scottb
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posted 363 days ago
rikkor – craft supplies usa has them. (well, about 1/2 the time I look they aren’t sold out!) http://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/
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