The Woodshop Shed

Wine Caddies

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


Made a pair of wine caddies using a template I got online. I glued up some Peruvian walnut, Bolivian rosewood, and some scrap hard maple I had. Traced out the template, drilled out the three holes, and then rough cut the template. I then turned to the router table with a compression trim bit which worked great except for the tip on the left side which ended up tearing out some of the wood on each of them. To fix the damaged portions, I set up a chamfer bit to trim get rid of the tear out followed by some quick passes on my disk sander to even out the tips area.I then free hand cut the slots to connect to the smaller holes to allow wine glass stems to pass through before using some sand paper on a thin piece of scrap to smooth out the insides of the slots. Then came progressive sanding up to 220 grit using my ROS and a lot of hand sanding for the inside of the holes and the chamfers before I raised the grain with some misted water before then sanding up to 400 grit. I used my new electric branding iron to mark them. That was followed by a couple of coats of Watco Danish oil.

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