Advice please - Wife's latest project for me, wine rack

[Wuffles]

She's found this image on Houzz and thinks she might want me to turn one of the pieces of wood I am "hoarding" in the garage into something like it.

Anyone got any experience and pointers or guesses as to how you might go about something like this? It's to mount in/on a booze cubbyhole that's being built in the kitchen.

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[Wuffles]

I've come to look at it on a computer rather than a phone and can now see it's hollow in construction, so I'm a little less perplexed now.

There's a good chance I can figure this out without any problem, but just in case anyone has any advice I'm all over taking that.

My guess is router template with a hole, just not sure how to make the back of it without it looking odd.

 

[Locks14]

No advice, just a comment that I don't really like it. Looks a bit disorganised and untidy to me.  There are plenty of custom wine rack ideas/designs out there the IMHO are nicer and more worthy of the man hours you're going to put in to making it.

 

[Wuffles]

No advice, just a comment that I don't really like it. Looks a bit disorganised and untidy to me.  There are plenty of custom wine rack ideas/designs out there the IMHO are nicer and more worthy of the man hours you're going to put in to making it.

I'm hoping for "man minutes" not hours.

Do show me some though, we have a two way street on "what looks nice" in our house, it's all open to consultation.

 

[rvieceli]

It's a champagne riddling rack.

Here a video of some ones build of one

 

[Sparky]

I have built it. The problem I ran into is the different shapes of bottles necks doesn't sit the same. I should have figured it out sooner but ended up having top 3 rows for one shape of neck and the rest the other shape. On the back of the cabinet is a board inside that holds the neck down but the neck lengths varie if that makes sense.

 

[Gixxerjoe04]

If you're using thick wood instead of that open type design, could make a smaller hole for the bottle necks, angle your drill press bed to the right angle.  Could use a french cleat to hang it, router out a spot in the back for it so it sits flush. 

 

[Wuffles]

Thanks all.

I'll consult with her indoors about this.

What say you all, now I have piqued your interest, about a slab with a larger hole and less of an angle cut into it so the bottles aren't as dramatically vertical? Not sure how one would even go about an angled hole of that size.

 

[Stone Message]

Dan,

It need not be that complicated. I have seen a small one of these and there is no need to produce the detailed shaping for the shoulder of the bottles.

The simplest design is to just have a board with holes drilled at about 10 - 15 degrees (this is a guess on my part and you need to experiment). The holes need to be big enough to take the neck of the largest bottle (champagne being the biggest). On the inside of the board and just above the holes would be strips of wood that prevent the thinner necked bottles from lying too close to horizontal.

When the bottles are inserted they come to rest at a slight upward angle. I would be tempted to put a rubber strip on the strips of wood to give a bit of friction between the bottles and the rack which might help to keep then lined up nicely.

Peter

 

[Wuffles]

Dan,

It need not be that complicated. I have seen a small one of these and there is no need to produce the detailed shaping for the shoulder of the bottles.

The simplest design is to just have a board with holes drilled at about 10 - 15 degrees (this is a guess on my part and you need to experiment). The holes need to be big enough to take the neck of the largest bottle (champagne being the biggest). On the inside of the board and just above the holes would be strips of wood that prevent the thinner necked bottles from lying too close to horizontal.

When the bottles are inserted they come to rest at a slight upward angle. I would be tempted to put a rubber strip on the strips of wood to give a bit of friction between the bottles and the rack which might help to keep then lined up nicely.

Peter

That's pretty much what's going on in the video posted earlier by [member=3192]rvieceli[/member] - will see if that's what she envisioned.

I also found this one in a restaurant in the Canaries a couple of years ago which struck me as functional and not too shabby.

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[Stone Message]

Thanks Dan - I have now had a look at the video and it is similar.

The one I saw just had holes about 1 1/4" drilled in at a slight angle and the bottle was entirely supported by its neck. There had been no effort to enlarge the holes.

Peter

 

[Sparktrician]

Just my take on a wine rack.  Solid cherry finished with Osmo PolyX (Thanks, Peter Parfitt).  There are two separate modules here, screwed together. 

 

[Tinker]

Just my take on a wine rack.  Solid cherry finished with Osmo PolyX (Thanks, Peter Parfitt).  There are two separate modules here, screwed together.

I like Sparktrician's model for a small space.  It is quick and easy to make.  Can be made any size to fit and other shelving can fit very handily around it no matter what the size.  And it is very neat and tidy for someone who is very neat and tidy.
Tinker

 

[Wuffles]

Just my take on a wine rack.  Solid cherry finished with Osmo PolyX (Thanks, Peter Parfitt).  There are two separate modules here, screwed together.

Nothing wrong with that. Functions perfectly well and looks great.

We're going floor to ceiling in height and trying to break the mould by stealing someone else's mould and running with it.

 

[birchwoodwerks]

Drill press and mark out the holes is how id do it haha