| Project by jat | posted 526 days ago | 1008 views | 5 times favorited | 3 comments |  |
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Finally decided to try my hand at some wine bottle balancers. I have made the standard ones but I prefer this curved version. I also think this style is more stable. The only problem with this type is the amount of waste. Each block starts out approximately 5 1/2×10 1/2 and 2” thick.
The first one is wenge, yellow heart and jatoba. The last one is just jatoba. In the pic with three, the last one on the right is purple heart. Used 3 coats of tung oil and 3 coats of wipe on poly. I have 2 more drying that are padauk. Probably won’t use padauk again; it has taken 5 coats of poly to get a uniform finish.
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fissionchips
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#1 posted 526 days ago
I like this design very much.
Do you think there’s any possibility of bending these hardwoods? If not, a bent lamination might work, making for a thin profile. Another way to reduce waste would be to cut multiples together in a production run.
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#2 posted 525 days ago
Steambending is something I always found to be quite easy and downright fun to do. Cool design though. Definitely netter looking than the plain jane straight ones.
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#3 posted 525 days ago
I like the mix of woods. Color looks great. I can relate to the trouble finishing you had on yours.
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