Make a Wine Glass Caddy From Scraps

Happy Thursday Facebook, Happy Facebook Thursday. How goes the battle for you folks? It's a, it's an interesting day here in western Wisconsin. Interesting, in that we've had some pretty warm days. I've seen 70 degree days.

I've been on my bicycle, and my motorcycle a number of times already. And we are looking for an overnight low tonight of 30 degrees. So it's going to be where it's about 60 something out right now. And the mercury is going to just drop like a rock between now and tonight, which is a little bit too bad because, and it's not going to stop me, but have you seen it's it's super moon tonight? So the good news is, generally if it's going to be cold that means it's clear, when there's no cloud cover it tends to be colder out.

So I'm looking out my window as I always do. So I wanna get, I wanna, I wanna take some pictures of the super moon tonight, so it'll be cool to stand outside and take pictures but the trade-off hopefully being that because it's cool, it's going to also be clear and the moon is going to look good. Scraps to projects. This has been, this is week five. So let's, let's talk about a couple things and we'll do a little bit of revisiting.

I may or may not get these in the right order. However, we have done four other projects, cause this is week five. So we did, coasters, end grain coasters. And one of the things is links to all these other projects are in the description for this Facebook live. So we've already done end grain coasters.

Then we did fire starters. This was about using shavings from your planar or your joiner, mixed with a little bit of paraffin, poured into an egg crate, and you can use those then in your fireplace, you can use them and starting to bonfire camping, whatever, then sequence of events. I think the next one was a candle holder. And I know some of you have already made these cause you were posting some pictures. That holds a glass encased votive candle like that.

And then we did a coffee filter holder. And so far, I think this might be my favorite maybe cause I'm a coffee snob. And that was what we did last week. And then, this week where we're going. Let's see if I can move this without having a catastrophe Working on the iPad like this, it's easier to move the device or the thing than it is to move the iPad.

We're going to do a glass caddy. And so, a couple of things I already mentioned, the links for the previous projects are in the description for this video. And then additionally, there is a template, and we're going to talk more about the pattern, in a second but there's also a link for the pattern, in the description for this video. So get that, let me peek at my phone. Cause that's where I look for comments because it's easier than trying to read them on my iPad without having a catastrophe, There we are.

All right, we're rolling. Let's talk about the project we're going to do this week. A wine glass caddy. I think like all of these projects, you know the whole point is to use up scraps. This is a really, this is a good one for using up scraps.

Again, look at the, look at the link for the video. And there's a, I'm sorry. Look at the description for the video. And there's a link in there that will get you the pattern that you need. And let me talk about what we're making, and then we're going to come back and revisit that pattern.

So a wine glass caddy, like this, looks kind of like a sewing shuttle, right? A really big sewing shuttle, the blank for this needs to be, and this is on the pattern. So you don't have to write it down. Three quarters of an inch thick, about five and a quarter wide, and about 11 inches long, or so, in order for us to get one of these out of there. What that dimension does, is it lets us suspend on the wine bottle and get far enough out here, that the wine glass, is wine glasses can hang there without hitting the bottle of wine.

So I've got a couple different ones here. And what I want to do is hit on, let's talk about the pattern first, because there were some things you need to do with that. Then we'll look at some that I've gotten done because there are some like tricks going on with how I made up these blanks, and then we'll make one live. Alright, the pattern. Here's the deal.

When you go to the link, it's going to get you to this, and you print this out and you're actually, you need to print two of them in order to have a pattern. So maybe you want to print three because on the bottom of the pattern there are notes that you need for the project itself. Because the reason I'm saying print three is, one of the first things that we're going to do with this, is cut it up. The project is so long. The template is so long, that it wouldn't fit all on one page.

Like the candle holder did. So we need to get it. We need two of these in order to make one complete pattern. So what you're going to do is choppa choppa, cutta-cutta somewhere, you're going to cut somewhere, along the bottom here below this center line. And we're not cutting to the lines at this point.

Do this twice. Then, the easiest, what we need to do is pair these up to make one pattern. And the easiest way to do this is to hold them up to a bright light, I'm a little out of your frame, hold these up to a bright light. And then when you look through them, you'll be able to see this circle and these cross hairs, align with this circle, and these cross hairs. And once you get there, right there, then I'll tip you down a little.

Once you get to that point where you have them lined up with each other, scotch tape these two halves together. And if you want to be done at this point, in other words, if you want to use a paper template at this stage, you could start cutting the outline. I prefer to have a little bit more robust template. So, what I did on the one I'm going to show you, is I then use spray adhesive, and I glued this to the cardboard. And then I cut this out.

And at that point, you want to be careful. You're going to carefully follow this line, so that we're actually getting the shape of this pattern. Now, when you do that, notice that I'm grabbing my pattern. Notice that I'm cutting the outside. I'm cutting these little in cuts insets, but I'm not cutting out the circle and I'm not cutting out the circle.

What I want here, is the cross hairs. And that's why I put those on the pattern, so that when this goes on a piece of wood, we can use a scratch all, and go right through that distinct center point, and mark center, mark center, mark center. So out of all of that, the lesson is, whether you're cutting this from paper, or gluing it to cardboard and cutting it, don't cut out the circles. Don't cut out the three circles. We're going to produce those by just drilling holes.

The whole dimensions are given on the pattern. Alright, that gets us to where we have one of these. And let's talk about, let's talk about some of these that I have done. This is quarter sawn, white Oak stained and finished. So nothing.

You know, this one's simple. All that is is a block of wood from which I cut the shape, easy peasy. This one, is a little bit more dramatic. That's Walnut., sapele, and maple. And if it's showing up or not, the maple has got some really nice curl in it.

It's really pretty under finish. Now, the way I got this on the bias was, I did a glue up like this. And then the key to getting this look is just instead of putting the pattern on there straight, like that, put your pattern on there at an angle, and then do your layout and your cuts. And that will get you. That will get you, this look.

Then I've also got this one. I don't have finished on this one yet, but when you look at it closely, we've got a dark wood with a white curvy inlay type stripe through it, all the way through. And I loved doing this process of putting that stripe in there because when this is done, this looks way more complex than it really is. The way you get here is, start with, a block of wood, that's big enough to make your project, then go to the band saw. And I usually use a, a four tooth per inch blade for this, go to the bandsaw and make the curve cut.

Then go to your gluing table. And I have got a piece of maple that's only maybe a 16th of an inch thick and that maple's going to go into the curve. And then with glue in there, we clamped that whole thing. And that's what gives us that curvy stripe. So it's a really doing, this is really simple, but the add that it gives us here, I think is really neat, really pretty.

So that's how I got to some of the blanks that I have in front of me. The blank we're going to work on, is this chunk of walnut right here. We need to do a couple of things, trace the outside and also mark the whole locations sequence doesn't matter, because this is walnut, I'm not using a regular lead pencil, I'm using what's called a charcoal pencil. If you look in the description for the video, there's a link for these. This is a great way to make visible lines on a really dark wood.

Let me get you in here a little bit. And again, keep in mind. Everything you're seeing is backwards because we're on an iPad. So white lead or white charcoal gives us that way more, better line. And then don't move that pattern yet.

We're not done. Give it your all three times And Christopher is asking what kind of finish this is. I sprayed these with just a rattle can of deft, semi gloss lacquer. You can get it on Amazon. You can get it from home centers.

Alright, once you get to this stage, go back and look at your drawing, your pattern. And it's got the whole sizes on here, and for this project instead of trooping over to the drill press we're just going to stay here. I've got two forrester bits. This part is boring. Uno mas.

what do you mean? We need bad jokes, Joe? I don't tell any bad jokes. Alright. Who's going to clean that mess up?

Now, for the outline, you can either scoot over to your band saw or we can do this with a jigsaw. So see the theme here. I'm sticking with a handheld tools today. I'm going to move you a little bit. How's that?

Now my arm is probably about to block a lot of this stuff on you. A little repositioning. Alright, and from there, sanding the s word, got to clean up all of those cuts. You won't have to do anything inside these holes cause Forstner bits leave a really nice inside but you've got to go back and sand all of these. John says, needs to be Goa merged with George sayings.

There are too many stupid ones. Those are the types of jokes that get me boos from the wife and kids. But somebody has to tell them, yeah, my, my children are the master of eye-rolling. Alright, next step is router. And then we're almost done.

Now here's the deal. I'm skipping the sanding step, because I don't think we need to watch that, before you do the router work on the outside here, you want to get all of these, all of these surfaces, standard, sanded. Router pad makes life easier. Cause then things stay in place. We've got two things goin' here.

Quarter inch round over on the big hole, eighth inch round over on everything else. What kind of jigsaw is that? Kevin says. That is a Triton jigsaw. I'm getting my routers.

Alright. Remember, eighth inch on the outside, quarter inch on the inside. Get my earbuds on. From both faces. Elliot its only early for people that live in Hawaii.

For the rest of us mere mortals, The day is half over. Especially when one gets up at 4:30 or five in the morning. Alright, then quarter inch round over, here. Alright I got you out of frame a little there, Alright. How's that for easy peasy?

A wine glass caddy in que hora es, in 20 minutes. And that's with talking. I want to show you this other one. This maple one. So not, not a hugely exciting piece of wood.

It's just kind of a boring piece of maple but then I put it in the laser engraver. It's not reversed. It's only reversed because you're looking at an iPad, and I laser engraved on the top of it in wine truth. Remember, a handful of important links the pattern that you need to make this The link for this is in the description with this Facebook video, then I'm also in that description, the charcoal pencil I used, so I could make white lines on dark wood. There's a link for that.

Then, um the other projects that we've done scraps to projects, coasters and fire starters, and candle holder and coffee filter holder, cause a day without coffee is like, I have no idea. The links for all of those projects are also in the description with the Facebook video. That, my friends wraps up the wineglass caddy. I'm going to put this one back together. Cause I love how it looks.

Alright. So Jeremy says, when routering the inner circle, did he move the router in reverse direction? You always go against the rotation of the bit, keeping in mind, what Jason pointed out, is that everything you're seeing is flipped. Look at the text in the background. So everything because we're on an iPad here, everything is reverse imaged for you.

So it's, that's why things look weird. So against the road deck direction of rotation. So, pay attention to that when you're hand routing, and then to put this one back together, again this one's got walnuts, sapele, and some maple Allie, am I a coffee nut? How do you not know this by now? I think we've had this conversation.

Allie was very nice to send me not sugar cookies, shortbread cookies, shortbread from Hawaii. And I ma I can't believe you didn't include Hawaiian coffee with it. I don't know what was going on there. Shortbread is a, shortbread and coffee are a wonderful conversation combination. And interestingly enough, my sister Anne is watching.

So part of my shortbread addiction comes from when my sister used to own a specialty foods company. And I don't know maybe it was leftovers that she would send me. I don't know what it was, but she would send me these tins of shortbread. And this was a long time ago. This was, what was it Anne, probably 25 years ago.

And that's when I learned that shortbread and coffee go really, really well together. So yeah, life is too short for crappy coffee, crappy cheese, crappy gin, and a few other crappy things that maybe I won't mention here. But yeah, I'm, I'm kind of a coffee snob. Not kind of a coffee snob. I am a coffee snub.

Aright, anything else? Preguntas? What else? I'll give you a minute here to ask questions. In the world of live streams, then we'll be back on Facebook in a couple of weeks.

Johnny's watching from Belgium, that's pretty cool. And then our standard Thursday night live is not today. Not this Thursday. It's always the second Thursday of the month. So it's a week from today.

7:00 PM Central time is our one hour long open Q and A live. Alright. Anything else I can learn ya, while I'm standing here? Oh, there. So Anne remembers 30 years ago, Maggie's shortbread.

The first one is free baby. That's what started my addiction. So Alright, I think I'm going to punch out. I'm looking questions, answers, smart comments. You know who you are.

Alright, I will see you here again. Facebook live in a couple of weeks. Thanks for watching the scraps to project series. It was a lot of fun to do. Oh, Allie's got a question.

I always at the last second, best bit for three quarter inch plywood on a CNC. Up cut spiral, depth and passes, yes. Call me, there's too many, there are too many variables. Call me. You have my number.

Alright. I'll talk to your folks later. See ya.