Wine Rack (Completed)

youve only been woodworking for less than a year? Your project looks like it was done by a seasoned craftsman. good job!

-- bryano

I nice wine rack. Can you post a picture of the top. I’d like to see the curl of the oak,

How did you interlock the compartments for the bottles?

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

The latticework is 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch red oak with a chamfer on all four edges. Each intersection has a glued lap joint that also had to be camfered. I made a jig to handle the laps and the camfers on the laps. The latticework was then sandwiched between pieces of 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch oak with camfers on two edges, 8 pieces each for the front and back panels.

Ok, giving it a try. Here’s a picture of the top of the Wine Rack. You can see some of the quilting in the top and on the drawer front.

What else would you like to know? I’m happy to share although I feel like such a novice compared to so many others on this site.

-- Owen Johnson - aka IowaWoodcrafter

Yeah, I’m with Karson; tell us a little more and show us a little more. We do better with pictures. It is a real nice piece.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

Tou have to post the picture somewhere on the internet. Like www.flickr.com. You upload the pictures there and then you click on the picture and go to properties. You then cut the address of the picture and past it into your blog and you put an exclamation point around the address with no blanks.

My sample will have blanks. ! http:www.flickr.com/photos/karson/xxx.jpg ! but you should not have blanks If you click on formatting references just above the blog it will give you some tips.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Here’s another picture that shows how the lattice is held in place.

Also, here’s a link to the Flickr site where you can see bigger images of the wine rack.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13093321@N05/

-- Owen Johnson - aka IowaWoodcrafter

Thanks.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Very sweet, what joinery did you use, mortise and tenon, or…?

-- Dan in Central Oklahoma, Able to turn good wood into saw dust in the blink of an eye!

Mortise and tenon on all of the sides and legs. Attached the top using L brackets and screws, to allow it to expand and contract with seasonal changes. The lattice is held in with the strips of wood. These were attached with 3/4 inch brads on the top and bottom. The side pieces holding the lattice are half lapped and glued to the top and bottom pieces. They are not attached to the side panels at all.

Oh, and the bottom is held in place with notches cut into the legs. I also glued the bottom to all four lower rails. I hope this doesn’t come back and bite me. I wanted to make the bottom able to hold fluild in case a bottle should happen to leak. This happened to someone else I work with and it nearly ruined their carpet. Red wine, white carpet, not a good combination.

-- Owen Johnson - aka IowaWoodcrafter

Very nice work, I guess you can’t call yourself a novice anymore, more like a vicor or friar something a little higher on the food chain. jockmike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

Nice work – I like the open look of the lattice work

-- Marge, Colorado

Nice work!

I agree with Mike, you can’t call yourself a novice . . . your piece looks great in your customer’s home. Looking forward to future projects.

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

very nice!!!!!!!!

-- Matt, Napa, CA...177 days to sanity...

Beautiful work Iowa. That doesn’t look like novice craftsmanship to me. Thanks for letting us see this wonderful piece completed.

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.

Great work IW. This is a professional looking piece. I like the color of the wine rack as well. Did you use a special stain?

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

The stain is Ipswitch Pine from Varathane applied using a lint free cloth. I purchased sample packets of every stain that Varathane produces. I created stain samples using red oak cut to about the size and thickness of a graham cracker. When a person commissions a piece I give them the samples to take home and compare.

I also created several blocks of wood with various edge treatments. I send these home with the person along with the stain samples. In this case the customer also supplied the drawer pulls to match another piece of furniture. I like to involve the customer in creating the piece, this way it becomes more personal to them.

The finish is a water based semi-gloss poly also from Varathane. I sprayed approximately five coats during various stages of the project. The lattice had to be sprayed prior to assembly, other parts were sprayed before the lattice was installed. The top was also sprayed prior to assembly.

-- Owen Johnson - aka IowaWoodcrafter

When you spay the varathane did you uses spray can or HVLP gun if you used the later what set up are you using?. I need to find a cheaper more effective way of finishing my wine racks

Thanks

-- RMH Designs

I have a Fuji Mini-Mite 3 HVLP spray system. I really like this spray system. I originaly tried a compressor type HVLP gun. My compressor ran constantly and I was afraid it would burn out. The turbine based systems like the Fuji work much better, in my opinion. The only problem I’ve had with the system is trying to spray latex enamel. You can’t thin enamel like you can regular latex paint. I should have bought a bigger tip for the spray gun, which would have worked better.

Here’s a link to the spray system:

http://www.fujispray.com/

This link will take you to Amazon.com listing all of Fuji’s spray systems:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/102-7490309-3556905?initialSearch=1&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=fuji+hvlp

While looking stuff up I noticed that Fuji has a new model called the SE-Super which is a 4 stage turbine. You can get this unit for only $75 more than the Mini-Mite 3. It’s quieter and has a larger turbine. Not a bad deal.

http://www.hvlp.net/webstore.htm

-- Owen Johnson - aka IowaWoodcrafter