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Wine stoppers
Ron in Drums PA
>Over time, whenever I get a small block of nicely figured wood I would toss it into a large paper bag. Now the bag is full and I'm going to turn some wine stoppers.
I see the Nick Cook has some good prices, does anybody know his are Flor Corks?
Also, which is the preferred fiction polish
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Dick Parr
>I really like the Mylands friction polish. Does a good job for my.
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MikeinCapeMay
>Ron,
I make and sell about three hundred a year, all receive a coat of Watco and after dry buffed on the Beall. I don't use cork but the chrome stoppers available from several sources.
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Ron in Drums PA
>The only sources I know of are Craft Supply, Parkard, and Nick Cook.
Can you turn me on to a couple of others? TIA!
Yes
MikeinCapeMay
>Penn State Industries at http://www.pennstateind.com/
Augum's Penworks at http://www.augumspenworks.com/apwwebsite_014.htm
Also Arizona silhouette, not my favorite but some guys here swear by them at
http://www.arizonasilhouette.com/Bottle_Stoppers.htm
I use Augum's and PSI and buy in quantities of 100.
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Ruth in S.Cal
>Mike, can I ask how much you sell them for?
thanks,
ruth
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MikeinCapeMay
>After trial and error I've found that a stopper made with an exotic or with a figured domestic sells for $20.00. With embellishments such as a cabachon, a lamination of a complimentary or contrasting wood "cap" and a few other things that I use, up to $40.00. That's at shows in my area. Rosewood, cocobola and mesquite are big for me. I've found that plain domestics such as cherry, maple and especially walnut do not sell......for me anyway. That's unfortunate because I thought that would be a use for cutoffs.
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Ruth in S.Cal
>Thanks Mike!
Yes, I too would have thought there would be a market for the 'regular' woods.
r
Thanks Mike
Ron in Drums PA
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john Lucas
>I've also found that plain woods don't sell. I make mine using corks and sell them for $12 around here. I've found spalted maple sells well so I when I cut off the corners of bowls or trim the end of logs I save this and let it dry. I've also found that laminated woods sell well. Again I'll take scraps and just glue them up. I can do a lot of them in a short time so they don't really cost me anything.
Still my best sellers are figured maple from burl and Cocobolo,
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keith zimmerman, Normal, IL
>Be aware that the chrome stoppers from different sources are not interchangable. I buy mine from Craft Supplies. They have a different size spindle than the others.
keithz
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RonZ
>Nick is an excellent source for supplies as well as Packard and CSUSA. As to theirl being flora or not, ask him. He also sells the dowels and is an all around great guy. He uses plain Briwax on his cocobolo ones. You can make them with silicone or a chrome stopper. I recommend you try the regular cork first to get you started. While I am a frequent users of Myland's friction polish, I rcommend using Myland's sanding sealer and then Myland's melamine finish. This is significantly more water resistant.
