From an old oak TV cabinet.

[Jonzjob]

If you have an old English oak TV cabinet given to you it's surprising just what it hides! I cut some bits off of it and turned the little uprights,



then spun the top ring and base and after some careful drilling so the bits went together



I finished up with these



I love the grain on the wood and it takes such a lovely polish. I don't think that I will ever get fed up with working with wood. It tells me just what it wants to be like and if I try to vary that it bites back. I curse at it but then do as it wishes. Sounds stupid, but until you have been told by it you will never know?? I love it!!

Edit : - Silly me :ymblushing: :ymblushing: I forgot to say that they are wine bottle stands, so that your bottle of lovely, but not expensive, bottle of wine can look even better on the table. French wine of course

[Christos]

I was wondering what it was you made until you said it at the end. For some reason I thought that it was bigger than the bottom of a bottle of wine.

i like the idea and might give it a got to see how I do in making one. Looks like a fun project.

[Jonzjob]

They are bigger than the standard bottles, but if you get the ones with the bigger bottoms they fit too.

The most important part is to drill the holes VERY carefully. I have an Axminster K10 chuck with an indexing ring which makes the marking easy. I turn the bottom blank so that the top ring is proud and mark the holes. Then I use a very complicated jig on my drill to make sure the radius is the same.



By drilling the top when it's part of the base the base can be drilled in the jig without moving anything but the depth and the rad is exactly the same.

For the uprights I saw some oak to about 1/2" square and sat the saw fence, band saw, to the overall length of the uprights and chop off 12 for each. Mount them between centres and turn them to a cylinder. It makes it easier to measure and turn the dawelled ends. I use a 'verynear' you may know it as a verner, but it's near enough for me. Sorry, got carried away there. I use the points on the internal verynear to mark off the dowels and turn them to fit the holes. After that you can shape the uprights as you want. Part off the top ring and mark/drill the holes in the base and turn it to flat in the middle and what ever shape round the edge and do a dry fit.

Glue it all toghther with the rough edge of the top ring upwards. Remount it on the lathe and finish the top ring. It may be a fraction out, but as long as it's a small fraction it doesn't matter..

The one with the buttons on it was an experiment because I wanted the grain the same as the base and not inverted. So I drilled straight through the top ring and base before they were seperated. It worked well, but it was a pain in the donkey (or one of that family?) doing the tiny buttons to fit in the top ring holes, so that's a one off!!!

Have fun. They are easy to do as long as you are accurate and they look the dogs on the table..

[gms002a]

If you have an old English oak TV cabinet given to you it's surprising just what it hides! I cut some bits off of it and turned the little uprights,



then spun the top ring and base and after some careful drilling so the bits went together



I finished up with these



I love the grain on the wood and it takes such a lovely polish. I don't think that I will ever get fed up with working with wood. It tells me just what it wants to be like and if I try to vary that it bites back. I curse at it but then do as it wishes. Sounds stupid, but until you have been told by it you will never know?? I love it!!

Edit : - Silly me :ymblushing: :ymblushing: I forgot to say that they are wine bottle stands, so that your bottle of lovely, but not expensive, bottle of wine can look even better on the table. French wine of course

Very interesting. A bit smaller would also make nice beer holders

[Jonzjob]

But where would you get the 'nice beer' from ? England ???

I also forgot to say that they are finished with celulouse sanding sealer and then melamine laquer so they should be fairly bullet proof? I hope..