Before and After Wine Bottle Holder

Here's an enjoyable Instructable taking ode skraggley branches and creating a wine bottle holder.

You know it's going to be a good Instructable when the first step is to buy some wine.

I recommend buying two. Maybe three.

Stuff you need:

• Couple bottles of wine
• Branches
• Saw
• Drill with Foster bits (more on those later)
• 150, 220 Sandpaper
• Polyurethane
• Wood Glue
• Couple more bottles of wine

The architecture of the final product is simple:

A trunk, a footer, and arms.

Oh, and a bottle of wine.

Go out and scrounge for some branches to be used for a trunk, arms, and footer.

Gather your raw materials.

Cut down the pieces roughly to size. Accuracy isn't too critical here because no matter what you do the cuts will never come out straight.

And you'll be drinking wine anyway.

I used Foster bits because they come in a variety of sizes.

Bits come in metric sizes and non-metric sizes. But, unfortunately they still don't come in branch sizes. So you have to kind of get the rough size.

The more wine you drink, the better the match seems to be, though.

These are special bits with a funny name because they can drill holes to hold Foster beer cans.

Mark the rough location for the hole for the footer in the trunk.

Here I just used a Sharpeeeee eeee marker to roughly outline the whole, er i Mean hole.

I recommend an A/C drill because it seems to have more oomph.

Here I'm using a Harbor Freight drill. These are great, but be sure to purchase the replacement warranty. heh heh; you'll eventually need it!

Yah, when drilling onto a conical surface, espeshully after having conshumed a few glasses of the winne, you'll have to be mindfull. hiC

As all wood workers know, wood has a quality whereby it does not fit the first time. (Thus the well-known phrase "measure once, cut thrice".) So just juse a jisel or Dermel roaRy trool to trim drown the footer branch so that it will fit into the flooter hoe.

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Shove the footer in and get a ruff lokation of were the arm branch should goooo.

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dOO a ruFf gagE wif thE BoTel, two!

aNd bE shur to tesht the qwalitee of tHe proDukt

dRill out hole for da arMs

Put togetHer so that yo0 can tell how much you have to re-saw, re-chisel, re-drink, etc.

It's always good to make two of everything, so . . .

SaNd everything doWn with 150 grit sand paypers

Then follow up with 220 (paypers).

oops wAit Wah?

sTill More sanding, you'll note here we are usingk a sandink bocxks.

Drink suM moRe alCohol, then use denatured alcohol to wIype down the dust from the peeces.

gEsnORt! where's my DrinK?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iAYhQsQhSY

You can get a ruff idea of how the project will luk with just polyurethane (i.e. naked) as you wipe down the pieces with the alcohol. The more alcohol you consume, the better it will look.

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Add suM stain.

You have to waiATE several howerS so to let the stain dry.

Add at leaSt twoo koates of Polyurethanine

polypopolane- sknxz tha's a funny WofrD!

You gotta wait for poly to dry, toooo.

chEeRS!

Use sum glood wue to hold the plieces together.

Yay, yeR dun! Go get some more wine and try it out!

If you follow the Instructable using larger pieces . . .

... you could make a guitar stand, . . .

Or a holder for a yoga mat, or skateboard, or a really really big bottle of wine

Here are a few links for more before-n-after 'ibles from tree branches:

What To Do With a Felled Tree

How to Make a Butt Table