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Wine Rack

Postby Woodbloke » 24 Aug 2020, 11:11

A couple of weekends ago we had No.1 son visit us with his new Canadian partner (very 'decorative' btw :eusa-whistle: ) and he happened to mention that a Wine Rack would be a good project from the WoD (Workshop of Dad) and ''could I do them one, please?"

They wanted a floor standing, six bottle jobbie with two on the floor and three up. I normally don't do this sort of project, 'cos they're a complete and utter pain in the ar$e but in a moment of lunacy I said I would. That said, I had a load of oak offcuts loafing around and this seemed a good enough way of getting shot of them :D

These things sound easy (and they're not too taxing on the electrons as Mike G would have it :lol: ) but it's quite tricky to sort out a compact design that will also hold a variety of different sized bottles of vino collapso. Our particular favourite red comes in a bottle that has a diameter of around 90mm so each orifice was made a tad larger.

Construction of the main frame(s) was by using bandsawn bridle joints which are the easiest things to do provided your machine is set up spot on:

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The rest of the build has been done using 8mm dowels and Torx screws. Each part had to be individually polished and waxed before assembly, so it's taken around a week to get the bloody thing together :evil: As an experiment, I used some Osmo Raw to finish it, which wasn't the brightest thing I've ever done as it's left one or two white 'streaks' and 'blotches' in a few places.

Fitting all the bits was a time consuming and fiddly job:

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...but once it was all complete it didn't look too shabby:

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I fitted a couple of bottle supports on the top so it now holds eight instead of six bottles. The extra supports only increased the overall height by 20mm so I think I've got away with it. Probably a bit OTT as these things go but I've got rid of a fair amount of Oak offcuts :D Next job is to wrap it and pack it and courier it up to Londres - Rob
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Re: Wine Rack

Postby Malc2098 » 24 Aug 2020, 11:36

Nice.
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Re: Wine Rack

Postby TrimTheKing » 24 Aug 2020, 11:49

Very good mate.
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Re: Wine Rack

Postby 9fingers » 24 Aug 2020, 13:19

Looks good Rob.
The bottle supports look a bit chunky but not investgated bottle size variation so maybe they need to be that size?
Nicely executed as always! :text-bravo:

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Re: Wine Rack

Postby Woodbloke » 24 Aug 2020, 14:05

9fingers wrote:Looks good Rob.
The bottle supports look a bit chunky but not investgated bottle size variation so maybe they need to be that size?
Nicely executed as always! :text-bravo:

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Thanks Bob. It's a question of sorting out the permutations of bottle(s) dia vs the support size. I made them 20mm square but if say, they'd been 10mm the horizontal gap between them in each 'ole might have meant that a narrow Riesling bottle could have fallen through.
The way I eventually sorted it out was to do a 1:1 scale drawing and offer the bottles up to it. That seemed to work but it took a lot of faffing around to get it right - Rob
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Re: Wine Rack

Postby 9fingers » 24 Aug 2020, 14:08

Woodbloke wrote:
9fingers wrote:Looks good Rob.
The bottle supports look a bit chunky but not investgated bottle size variation so maybe they need to be that size?
Nicely executed as always! :text-bravo:

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Thanks Bob. It's a question of sorting out the permutations of bottle(s) dia vs the support size. I made them 20mm square but if say, they'd been 10mm the horizontal gap between them in each 'ole might have meant that a narrow Riesling bottle could have fallen through.
The way I eventually sorted it out was to do a 1:1 scale drawing and offer the bottles up to it. That seemed to work but it took a lot of faffing around to get it right - Rob


I'd rather assumed that you would have done a thorough design job Rob!

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Re: Wine Rack

Postby Woodbloke » 24 Aug 2020, 14:13

9fingers wrote:I'd rather assumed that you would have done a thorough design job Rob!

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This was going to be a 'fag packet' design Bob, but I got half way through thinking about it and realised that the noble and glorious 'fag packet' approach wasn't going to work :lol: so I decided to do a proper job before it all 'went South' :lol: - Rob
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Re: Wine Rack

Postby Andyp » 24 Aug 2020, 14:46

Very nice of course.

But...

it is no way big enough. 6 bottles !
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Re: Wine Rack

Postby 9fingers » 24 Aug 2020, 14:55

Andyp wrote:Very nice of course.

But...

it is no way big enough. 6 bottles !


I suppose it would be OK to place at the end of the dining table to save getting up during a meal :lol:

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Re: Wine Rack

Postby Woodbloke » 24 Aug 2020, 16:44

Andyp wrote:Very nice of course.

But...

it is no way big enough. 6 bottles !

It's what the 'customer' :eusa-whistle: ordered Andy and even then I exceeded the brief by two bottles - Rob
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Re: Wine Rack

Postby Phil » 31 Aug 2020, 14:18

Looks very good, nice and compact.
BTW the bottles also look good. (Still full?? :lol: )
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Re: Wine Rack

Postby Woodbloke » 31 Aug 2020, 17:15

Phil wrote:BTW the bottles also look good. (Still full?? :lol: )


Thanks Phil, yep, the bottles are still full. The red Maris is particularly yummy (organic and no sulphites; we never seem to get a thick head with it) so when it was on offer a while back SWIMBO bought five cases (thirty bottles :shock: ) We've got three cases left so we're not doing too badly :eusa-whistle: - Rob
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