Segmented Bottle Stoppers

You are doing very nice work. I hope you are inspiring others of your generation to do the same.

-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. - It's not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability

Thank you!

In fact, I have been teaching quite a few people how to do various parts of woodworking and they all love it. At least here in Grand Rapids, I am making sure that the art form lives on another generation or two. :)

-- Lis - Michigan - http://www.missmooseart.com - https://www.etsy.com/people/lisbokt

great work and keep passing it on and remember it all comes back some way

-- wizzardofwood..... "ITS MY JOB TO AMAZE YOU"

Great looking stoppers…............Jim

ps.Ii like the new pic on your home site!

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!!

Your stoppers look great. Have you considered laminating them at an angle? LOL I read your forum post… The idea of putting a supporting dowel should help a lot. Most of the things I carve or turn are laminated and so far, only one has caused chip out at the joint. The glue held, but the grain chipped away when the chisel was cutting into it. (end grain glue up) If you use your bandsaw to hand cut a curve on some of the laminated blanks at 45 degrees. Then laminate a thin sheet of veneer the angled curve in the blank would make a stopper that looked very artistic.

-- Hal, Tennessee http://www.first285.com

I have a tiny bandsaw (A Ryobi) and it doesn’t quite have the “oomph” required to cut maple this thick.. I’ve tried a few times.. So I am left cutting with the table saw and mitre saw, but between the two I can do some pretty interesting things.

-- Lis - Michigan - http://www.missmooseart.com - https://www.etsy.com/people/lisbokt

Those will look very nice on a good bottle of wine.

-- Roger from KY. Work/Play/Travel Safe. Kentuk55@bellsouth.net

Nice, Lis!
I really like the way the stopper taper mirrors the wood taper.
Next time you need stoppers, try http://www.torne-lignum.com/.

-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

Nice job, very classy and attrative, 6k rock maple, sounds like many projects are on the way, thanks for sharing

-- It's Mic Keep working and sharing

Beautiful work. Would like nice in my bottle of Sharaz I have just opened after finding this project.

-- Harold

Those are both nice Lis. With your R.Maple abundance, you might try the same as these but with ALL Maple pieces. Have the thin strips cross grain and the rest long grain. Then do burn lines at the joints. You might like the chatoyance of the crossgrain beside the long grain. Hey, I might try this myself.

-- Backer boards, stop blocks, build oversized, and never buy a hand plane--

Very nice work you do. What state are you in?

-- Leonard H.