Chuck Ellis
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One of my favorite projects is to make wood stemmed wine glasses... here are a few I've finished lately..
These are blue glass and had a couple of glass beads worked into the stem just below the bulb... I left those in and set them into the stems... made for slightly larger stems... the stems are Spectraply "Caribbean Wave" and finished in poly. This is actually a set of 4, but only showed the two because it shows the stems better.
These are white wine glasses set on Yellow heart and finished with Walnut oil.... not sure how long the oil will hold up, but like the way it shows off the chatoyance (sp?) of the wood. Again a set of 4.
These are red wine balloons and are on Caribbean rosewood stems. Finish is poly.
And this last set of 4 were from some kinda funky glasses we found at the local Habitat for Humanity store... they have a very slight amber hue in the bottoms of the glass... that doesn't show up in the photos, but will if held up to light.. almost like an oil slick on water effect... These are on ambrosia maple stems and because the bases of the bulbs flared a bit, made for larger stems as well.
I turn these in two pieces... I do the stems as a cylinder and add a tenon at one end to fit into a hole in the base. After I glue them together, I make sure the stems turn true before I drill them... I drill just a hair larger than the stem, then if need be enlarge the hole that fits the base... for the bases I use blanks cut from a 1 inch thick board, glue it to a wast block that I can chuck and true up the side, then drill the hole for the stem... I usually drill a 5/8" or sometimes a 3/4" hold for the tenon...
Comments welcome.
These are blue glass and had a couple of glass beads worked into the stem just below the bulb... I left those in and set them into the stems... made for slightly larger stems... the stems are Spectraply "Caribbean Wave" and finished in poly. This is actually a set of 4, but only showed the two because it shows the stems better.
These are white wine glasses set on Yellow heart and finished with Walnut oil.... not sure how long the oil will hold up, but like the way it shows off the chatoyance (sp?) of the wood. Again a set of 4.
These are red wine balloons and are on Caribbean rosewood stems. Finish is poly.
And this last set of 4 were from some kinda funky glasses we found at the local Habitat for Humanity store... they have a very slight amber hue in the bottoms of the glass... that doesn't show up in the photos, but will if held up to light.. almost like an oil slick on water effect... These are on ambrosia maple stems and because the bases of the bulbs flared a bit, made for larger stems as well.
I turn these in two pieces... I do the stems as a cylinder and add a tenon at one end to fit into a hole in the base. After I glue them together, I make sure the stems turn true before I drill them... I drill just a hair larger than the stem, then if need be enlarge the hole that fits the base... for the bases I use blanks cut from a 1 inch thick board, glue it to a wast block that I can chuck and true up the side, then drill the hole for the stem... I usually drill a 5/8" or sometimes a 3/4" hold for the tenon...
Comments welcome.