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Let’s make a wine bottle stand!
This is another great project for using up those smaller scrap pieces of wood you may have laying around and have no idea what to do with.
For me, this was a project I wanted to try and not knowing how it would work out. I used a piece of scrap that I have no idea what it is and it also has worm holes or something throughout…a great piece to practice with.
I have seen many times on the internet these pretty cool balancing wine bottle stands made from a single piece of wood.
Today, we are going to give it a try and use a very simple design.
Lets Make it!
A few things you will need:
Wood of your choice. I will list the size I used below, but you can customize it to your liking.
Wood finish of your choice.
Band saw or hand saw. A miter saw also helps.
Router table (Paid Link) with an 1/8″ round over bit. This is optional but adds a nice finish.
Below are the basic steps I used to make the wine bottle stand. Of course, you could always change things up and use different tools to make it.
Change up the design. Experiment with angles. Try different sizes. There is always more than one way to make something, so have a go at it and get creative. Or just follow along…
Start off with cutting a board down to size. I made mine with 3/4″ thick mystery wood that is 2-3/4″ wide x 7-3/4″ long.
After cutting the wood to size on the bandsaw, I took very shallow cuts on the jointer to clean up the edges.
Use a compass to draw your rounded end and cut off the corners. Also mark the center of the hole you will be cutting out…this will be 1-7/8″ down from the top.
With the corners cut off, sand the remaining bits down to the line. I like to use the disk sander for this as it makes the process quick and easy.
Use a 1-1/4″ Forstner bit to drill your hole you marked 1-7/8″ down from the top.
Don’t go all the way through, only enough for the tip of the bit to poke through. This will help prevent tear out on the back side. Flip it over and use that little hole to line up the tip on the Forstner bit and finish drilling through.
Set up the router with an 1/8″ round over bit.
When routering smaller pieces, be sure you have a good grip. Sometimes the push pads with the anti-slip bottoms just aren’t enough. Mine felt too slippery and insecure for this job, so I resorted to this safety small parts holder and it worked great!
Using this small parts holder, you will need to rotate the part for each side that needs to be routered. Not a complicated thing to do and it saves my fingers from being a part of the router bit. I don’t know about you, but I need to keep my fingers.
Round over all edges on the router.
Now that the edges are all rounded over, cut the bottom at a 45 degree angle.
Don’t do what I did by not putting a backer board behind the cut. Otherwise, you may get tear-out like this. Good thing this project was just a test! So, add a backer board and save yourself this headache.
Sand everything down, starting with a coarse grit sand paper and work your way up to something finer. The finer the grit, the smoother the project will be.
With these measurements, the stand works! However, I don’t trust myself that I wouldn’t knock this thing over and lose a perfectly good bottle of wine. I also live in a earthquake prone area. This stand requires the bottle to be positioned just right within the hole. Too far in, it falls forward. Too far out, it falls backwards. It’s cool, but not worth it to me to lose a good bottle of wine. It’s just too finicky for my taste.
To help it balance better, lets add a leg. Cut out a piece from the same type of wood or mix it up with a different species. The leg should be 3″ long x 2-1/2″ wide. This width will allow it to fit between the rounded edges. Cut the end at a 45 degree angle to match the angle of the piece we made earlier.
Mark the center of the 45 degree angle and from there draw a line perpendicular to the angled cut. This will be the center line of the holes you will be drilling for the screws to attach this leg to the stand.
Mark your holes and drill with a drill bit about the same diameter as the screws you choose. Then use a larger drill bit that is slightly larger than the screw head. To make the leg stand easier when drilling, I cut another scrap 2×2 at a 45 degree angle and used that as a support. The screws I used were #6 x 1″ flat head bronze screws.
Attach the leg to the stand being careful that everything is straight so it doesn’t wobble. You may want to line up the leg you want it and pre-drill the holes to make it easier for the screws to go in. Now this seems much more sturdier than a cool balancing act!
Apply your choice of finish. I like using cutting board oil.
Hear is the finished stand. I think it is pretty cool and much nicer than not having the leg in place.
There you have it! Two ways to make this wine bottle stand. I hope you enjoyed this and you are able to make one yourself.
Rick Simper has various hobbies, including woodworking, metalworking, composting, and gardening. He is an Architect full time and uses these hobbies to get away from the busy week of Architecture.
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