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16th December 2013, 09:51 AM #1Senior Member
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Quick Christmas present: magic wine bottle holder
As its getting close to Christmas I thought I might post a quick design I whipped up to produce a secret santa present for a wine loving friend. The restrictions on the secret santa gift were that it must be "ethical" and cost less than $10.
I made mine from a scrap off cut piece (89 x 250 x 19mm) of Masters utility grade pine left over from another project. I centered the vectors in the piece and then cut it out with the cnc. The cut out on the cnc mill took a couple of minutes using a 3.15mm square end mill. I cut a 43 degree angle at the bottom with my mitre saw (seemed the fastest way to do it). Apparently 43-45 degrees is the go
after sanding, staining and sealing it looks pretty good to my biased eyes. Unfortunately I don't have a photo of it (had to wrap it and present it), but it comes out looking like this:
wine-bottle-holder-magic-wooden.jpg
(source: http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...gic-wooden.jpg)
The dxf file is attached, and I got the dimensions from Robb Sommerfield's channel on youtube Magic Bottle Holder Fall 2011 - YouTube . the finished piece is 2 3/4" wide, 8 1/4" long with a 1 1/2" hole centred at 6 5/8" from the base (tip of the 43-45 degree angle cut). For the imperically challenged like me that is 69.85mm wide (i used 70mm), 209.55mm long (i used 210mm), 38.1mm diameter hole (i used 38) centered at 168.275mm from the bottom.
If anybody else tweaks the design I'd be quite interested in seeing what they come up with. Also if anybody has any other quick and simple gift ideas I'd be interested in seeing those too.
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17th December 2013, 10:57 PM #2Senior Member
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I had a bit of a frustrating evening in my workshop today. I've had another "whups, forgot to get a present for that guy" moment, and I thought i'd do them a magic bottle stand as well. Unfortunately I forgot I'd unclamped my spoil board and the whole lot shifted during the first cut out of the decorative oval. I picked it up pretty much straight away and was able to stop the cut before everything got too stuffed.
I tried lining everything up and restarting the cut, but I didn't get it quite right. end result is a slightly offset misshapen decorative oval.
I grabbed another scrap piece of pine and cut another one, which came out really nicely.
The first image below is the misshapen one, which I ended up staining and oiling anyway. Its hanging off my pegboard while the oil dries.
The second is a the 2nd piece, actually holding up a bottle of wine. With the 19mm thick board balancing the bottle is very simple and reasonably resistant to bumps / knocks / curious pets.
Magic Bottle Holder - stuffed and stained.jpgMagic Bottle Holder - unfinshed.jpg
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