Wine Racks Hand Made In Portland Oregon, USA

KTW #0711, #0811

Are you serious about your stash of wine?  GOT RACKS??

KTW #0711, #0811

A pair of six bottle wide racks that I cut out at the same time. Don’t they look naked without any wine bottles? That is where you aficionados come in…

KTW#0711 six bottles wide, five racks tall

… fill these racks with wine! Wouldn’t they look better with an eclectic mix of glass colors and labels? Ha,ha, ha!

KTW#0711 (6 x 5)

It would be too easy for me to draw a bunch of different rack designs, then go to my lumber supplier, buy a bunch of material and make them up. The first problem with that is that the material would cost me money. This is not a tool that I have.

KTW#0811 (6 x 6)

If you have followed this blog at all you know that I’m a scrappy, dumpster diving, recycling, reclaiming, up-cycling, woodworking kind of guy. Most of this material was salvaged from my neighbors who build custom uhpolstered furniture. They can’t really use small rips and off cuts from their manufacturing process, so they had been burning them or just putting it into the dumpster.

They buy ASC certified cabinet grade Alder. I really like the different shades of golden brown and tan that the water proof polyurethane finish I use imparts. For the features strip laminations, I use scraps of Oregon Black Walnut from logs I have dried and used for bigger pieces. I can’t bare to toss anything out, and I spend way too much of my time looking through stacks of scraps, to try and visualize what I might be able to make out of them.

I would have made an identicle pair but there weren’t any pieces long enough, so they are as tall as the pieces I could glean for the legs. It is so much harder to design and build pieces from found material.

I try to use the contrasting Black Walnut laminations to be part of the graphic image and design. The real reason is that I don’t get any really thick pieces and the woodworker in me thinks it is better to draw attention to the joinery than try to hide it.

If I had lots of big boards, so that I could make parts with all the color and grain patterns being similar, I could successfully deguise the joints. Still, I sort through stacks of my scraps to find complimentary color and grain patterns. But it’s organic you know? The boards were cut from trees growing out in the mountains. If you want it perfect, make it out of steel or plastic.

KTW #0711 & #0811