A few bottle stoppers.

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I'm getting ready for my Farmer's Market art and craft show tomorrow... I'm running low on bottle stoppers, so I knocked out these few yesterday and an equal number today... then discovered I was out of the stoppers. A quick order from CSUSA and I'll have some more for next week... I'll just be short this week.
 

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I've pretty much gone to the silicone inserts... the metal cones are a little more expensive and leads to having to charge more than my market will bear... I do the style shown, and another style called a hidden cork.
 

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Awesome work! Maybe I missed it on CSUSA but is that where the yellow bottle stoppers came from? I would like to make some as gifts
 
Chuck you beat me to the punch posting your bottle stoppers. You have some great looking ones but I particularly like the "hidden" stopper versions. Hope you don't mind if I mimic them for some of mine.

BTW can you give us some details on the wood species and finish?
 
JD Combs Sr said:
Chuck you beat me to the punch posting your bottle stoppers. You have some great looking ones but I particularly like the "hidden" stopper versions. Hope you don't mind if I mimic them for some of mine.

BTW can you give us some details on the wood species and finish?
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Be my guest and mimic away... I got the idea from another turner several years ago.

In the first set of pictures, the first 6 are all walnut. The next two are spalted Magnolia and the last is spalted maple. They're finished with 3 coats each of HUT wax.

In the second set - the hidden cork - the first and 4th are cedar, 2nd and 3rd are persimmon and the last is osage orange. These are all finished with a wipe on poly...about 5 or 6 coats each.
 
I agree JD, that "hidden" version is pretty neat!

I'm just getting started in doing bottle stoppers, well...one to be exact lol, for one of my cousins who is getting married next weekend, so I don't think I'll try he hidden one just yet. If it works out I may end up making more.

Picked up an olivewood blank (coated in wax) from woodcraft that was in a pile near checkout. It should look pretty nice, fingers crossed.

I MIGHT actually be able to get 2 blanks out of it, I was turning an OLD piece of cedar I'm going to use for practice and it just happened to be about 1/4 longer than the olivewood blank, which if I remember correctly is about 3 1/2" in length, +/- 1/4" or so. I'll have to measure it again and make sure, but I may just go ahead and cut my test piece in half and see if I think I can make two out of it. :)
 
SamThePenMan said:
I agree JD, that "hidden" version is pretty neat!

I'm just getting started in doing bottle stoppers, well...one to be exact lol, for one of my cousins who is getting married next weekend, so I don't think I'll try he hidden one just yet. If it works out I may end up making more.

Picked up an olivewood blank (coated in wax) from woodcraft that was in a pile near checkout. It should look pretty nice, fingers crossed.

I MIGHT actually be able to get 2 blanks out of it, I was turning an OLD piece of cedar I'm going to use for practice and it just happened to be about 1/4 longer than the olivewood blank, which if I remember correctly is about 3 1/2" in length, +/- 1/4" or so. I'll have to measure it again and make sure, but I may just go ahead and cut my test piece in half and see if I think I can make two out of it. :)
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Sam,
The "hidden" corks are just as easy as the regular stoppers... I drill a 1 1/8 to 1 14 inch hole in the end of the blank, then a 3/8" hole for the dowel... I turn mine on a pin chuck now, but those shown above were turned on the PSI bottlestopper mandrel... the pin chuck lets me get closer at the bottom and a little more freedom in design... use a 3/8" steel rod, cut a flat on one side the thickness of a 8d finish nail, use the nail as a "pin" on the steel rod, give it a half turn to lock it and away you go... you will need a collet system to hold the 3/8" rod.

On the blank sizes, that's probably a personal preference... I usually start with a 2x2 x whatever is handy... usually about 2 1/2 long.
 
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