Christmas Wine tray

Now you tell me that there are corks available for this type of project!!- I could have saved a bundle on wine :^)

Neat idea with the glass cover. How heavy is the overall tray?

Nice looking project. Now you have need to wine about anything.. LOL

PS.. I can already see your response: Put a cork in Rat!”

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Very nice, but I think you can use it other times of the year too.

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Nice job but I don’t understand the need for the glass cover on the corks. Isn’t it slippery?

I have made trivets using wine corks. I doubled the usable number the by cutting them in half length wise on the band saw; which also gave me a flat gluing surface and made the finished trivet less thick. I have also given trivets as “do it yourself gifts” where the recipient could glue the corks in and design their own layout pattern (like bricks). It is surprising how many people collect corks. A friend donated an apple box full in trade for a couple of trivets. The type of wine and country of origin create a variety of different corks, long, short, fat, slim, good quality and cheap.

-- Les B, Oregon

nice looking tray. Very classy indeed!

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LesB, The body and the base can be separated (They are screwed together from below the base) on this tray so as my step daughter drinks a special wine on a special occasion, she can remove one of the Ebay corks and replace it with her own. The corks are basically loose, but held tight by spacers around the edges which also perform another function, that of holding the glass firmly in place. The edging has a lip underneath that contacts the spacers for a tight vertical fit.

The glass is mainly to prevent spills into the middle of the cork field, and also to match the sheen on the wood itself.

I was truly amazed at how many corks are available on the internet, then I realized that just about every winery worth its grapes has wine tasting and they amass tons of these used corks.

-- Scott, Irmo SC

oooooh classy (oh that’s what Scott said,,.. well if the word fits!)

beautiful

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A great project and two of them on the same day. At least I found them both today.

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