Susans Wine Bottle Stopper gift Complete

Here is the completed set.
I tried to turn the bases to look identical. The red cedar one, for red wine, is a wine bottle and the lighter sycamore one, for white wine, is a wine goblet. The holder has 3 coats of polyurethane. You cant see it, but it still needs a 2009 penny embedded in the bottom. The recess is drilled, but I have not yet seen a 2009 penny.

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Susans Wine Bottle Stopper gift

Im making a birthday gift for my girlfriend, Susan. She asked for a set of wine bottle stoppers and holder, similar to the ones I made a while back. She likes the set I have in my kitchen.
Her birthday is in May, so I have plenty of time, but I started early to get it done as soon as possible. What she doesnt know is HOW they will look. The first one is a wine goblet on a pedestal.
As you can see, I hollowed it out on top as well.
The stand is the one I kept for myself. At this point I have milled the wood for hers, cut it to size and drilled the holes and recesses. But the wood needs sanding and finishing. So for these pictures I posed the first stopper with my holder.
Also, I have glued up a cedar block for the second stopper. It will be shaped like a wine bottle and will sit on a matching pedestal. It will have a hole drilled to make it look somewhat authentic.
More to come soon.

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Wine bottle stoppers 6 and 7

Did two in sycamore today. I know that some wiseguy would say "Why dont you make a wine bottle stopper that looks like a wine bottle?" so thats what I did. As for the other, I thought that it may be important to have some short ones so that if someone wants to put their bottle in a refrigerator, the shorter size will help.

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Wine bottle stoppers 4 and 5

These are in sycamore. They are starting to look like beer taps in sports bars.

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Wine bottle stoppers 2 and 3

Here are the next 2 from the cedar. Still not looking for any duplicating...just free flow design and go.
I cut enough sycamore to make 15 more stoppers and glued up 8 blanks which will be ready to turn by tomorrow.

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Wine bottle stopper first of many

Here is my first. The wood is aromatic cedar and I intend to use this for red wine.
The only difficult thing about this is deciding on a shape. I did like Michelangelo and just removed the wood around what was already inside. :-)
Let me know what you think.

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Completed wine bottle stoppers and stands

Im giving all of these away to friends and family. Actually I think I will keep one set.
The red stoppers are cedar. The others are sycamore. The stands are also made from the same wood. The two planks are separated by 4 full cork "columns". I trimmed these in sets of 4 to be identical in length. The top plank has a 1 inch through hole. The bottom has a hole that does not go all the way through. The holes in the top and bottom were aligned so that the stoppers would stand roughly straight up.
On the bottom I drilled a recess for a 2007 penny. Also I sliced corks on the bandsaw to 1/4 inch thick and glued a set onto the bottoms.
This set is for my good friend Marta. It is the only set that isnt entirely random. It is a turned goblet and wine bottle.

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Wine bottle stoppers 8 thu 12

Was able to do 5 of them today:
Can you tell that I enjoyed burning some rings today?
The one on the left makes me think of an Olympic flame. The one in the middle of a pepper mill. The 4th one of an Imperial Storm Trooper from "Star Wars". The one on the right makes me think of an atomic bomb blast.
Also I had time to drill a block of 2x4 to hold what has been done so far:
Im now about halfway done with what Im giving as Christmas gifts.

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