my first bottle stoppers

boozeclues · Post by **boozeclues** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:09 pm

and then some ones i was messing around on

baysidebob · Post by **baysidebob** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:28 pm

Great looking stoppers, good job. Maybe I will come to your house and we will open a few bottles to try these new items out........

a1gutterman · Post by **a1gutterman** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:00 pm

Party? Did someone say party??

charlese · Post by **charlese** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:18 pm

Very nice looking bottle stoppers, boozeclues! Each one unique and pretty on it's own!

Not having made any of these, myself; could you enlighten me of the purpose/uses of the steel ones as opposed to the plastic?

boozeclues · Post by **boozeclues** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:08 am

[quote="charlese"]Not having made any of these, myself]

imo the steel ones get more praise when people see them out of the bottle but the basic silicone ones look better on the bottle. just personal pref. although the metal ones are about 3.50+ each and the regular ones are only about 60 cents each

a few things i learned while making these
1. make sure the blank is screwed all the way down on the mandrel, if its not and you catch it will split
2. make sure you can unscrew the blank from the mandrel before you start sanding, it sucks to sand, finish a piece and then find out you need to use a pair of pliers to remove it

boozeclues · Post by **boozeclues** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:20 am

also i should start having byob parties and you all can "Bring your own blanks"

i used to take wood carving classes and one day in class i asked my teacher what the diffrence between carving and whittling was and he said "This is Carving" as he pointed around the class. i asked him "so what is whittling?" and he said " when you had a couple of drinks and get inspired to carve"... we all laughed and from that day forward anytime anyone cut themselves or had band-aides on when they came to class was dubbed a whittler.

i dont wanna know what the power tool version of that would be

john · Post by **john** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:58 pm

Nice looking stoppers. I tried a couple last year and didn't fair too well.

This summer I bought some smaller chisels and hopefully my next attempt will come out as nice as yours.

Good Job!

John

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:11 pm

a1gutterman wrote:Party? Did someone say party??

We're ready!

Very nice work on the stoppers!

We're waiting to party!