Whether you're a wine connoisseur, someone who enjoys an occasional glass, or someone who just wants to learn a few new woodworking techniques, you'll love this next project as Ron builds a wine rack.
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1. Design:
- Ron chose this particular design because it was expandable, modular, simple, and yet quite elegant. Ron selected one of his favorite woods for the job: cherry.
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2. Cut wood:
- Ron began by cutting several pieces of wood to two basic sizes. The six-inch by twelve-inch pieces that he cut first would serve as the end panels.
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- Next, the narrower three-inch by twenty-four inch cross rails would hold the bottles themselves.
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3. Dados:
- With all the wood cut to size, Ron needed to cut several notches or dados. Ron cut four dados in each end panel and four in each cross rail. The dados would serve to actually lock the cross rails and the end panels together.
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- To do this, Ron installed a dado set on the table saw
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- The dado set consisted of several cutters or chippers sandwiched between two saw blades.
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- Ron made a couple of other additions, too. He added an auxiliary fence onto his miter gauge. This was simply a piece of wood with a piece of sandpaper glued to the front of it to keep the wood from slipping.
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- He also clamped a stop block onto the fence, which would allow him to place each piece of wood in exactly the same place.
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- This way, each dado could be cut precisely one inch from the end.
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- Each time Ron put a piece of wood in the saw, he could simply slide it down into contact with the stop block, and make the cut.
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- One other thing Ron did to keep his fingers away from the blade was to clamp the piece of wood onto the fence so he could hold it further back.
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- Ron first cut dados in all the cross-rails, and then in the end panels.
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- Ron demonstrated how the wine rack would go together. The cross rails interlocked with the end pieces. In this way he could either continue stacking them up or put one section next to the other.
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- There was one important thing still missing from Ron's rack. He still needed some way to support the wine bottles. His plan was to cut out partial circles, or arches, a smaller one for the neck, and a larger one for the base of the bottle. For that, he would need to use the drill press.
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4. Hole saw:
- Ron cut out the arches with a hole saw. He clamped a fence to the drill press and cut a partial hole away using the saw itself. That way, he could position the pieces to be cut right up against the edge and hold them in place as he cut. He selected hole saws that were slightly larger than the diameter of the bottleneck and body.
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