wine bottle stoppers

[wahoo]

I want to make marbles\small sculptures and glue them to the top of wine stoppers. The problem is, the only stopper blanks I can find are designed for mandrel beads. Can anyone point me in the right direction of blanks I need?

[Cosmo]

I haven't seen any that aren't made for beads, but I assume you could use something like a drawer pull insert on the backside of a marble, and a wine stopper with a threaded stud to mate with the insert. Unfortunately I don't know if such an animal exists.

If not, maybe some of the industrious types out there can make some up...

[JDeMoss]

If your going to do it with the stoppers designed for mandrel beads, just unscrew that top mandrel part. It leaves a hole. Put some glass on the bottom of your piece that fits in the hole and glue it. You can do the same with these. http://www.favorfavor.com/page/FF/PROD/Bottle_Stoppers/1200

And these might be about as cheap as they get (plus you get a little black baggie)

[yinzer]

hmmm i never tried these before. thanks for the post. anybody have a link to the other stoppers?(for mandrel beads)

[jeffbuchs]

on the ones that won't/don't unscrew, you can saw off the thread in 15 seconds, then clean up any leftover ridges w/a dremel to smooth out the surface so the piece glues down flush.

[wahoo]

Jdemoss...have you actually done this? I ask because I have considered it, and am probably gonna do a couple, but am concerned about the glass post snapping.

yinzer....glass craft just started carrying the mandrel blanks.

[yinzer]

hey thanks

[JDeMoss]

http://www.abasg.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=203

I think these are the same as the ones on glasscraft.

Yeah, I do it all of the time. I use JB Weld to glue it in and I make sure the glue not only is on the glass going into the hole, but also on the top of the stopper that touches the bottom of the glass. It works great, no problems. The only time I ever had one break was when it dropped on a cement floor, but there wasn't much I could have done about that.

[Arcane Glass]

If you are looking for say 100 of them, you can save by getting them from the ebay store. Not sure what the totals would be with shipping for both places but the tops do unscrew on these.

http://cgi.ebay.com/100-Heart-Shaped-WEDDING-Favors-Wine-BOTTLE-Stoppers_W0QQitemZ5672016632QQcategoryZ20937QQrdZ1 QQcmdZViewItem

So just unscrew the top, then do your marble and weld a piece of either 5mm or 6mm to the bottom of your marble, cut off the extra stem and insert it into the wine stopper and epoxy it down. I have done this with the glass, but be careful about your epoxy job. Make sure you have a big enough area where the glass and the metal connect. If you don't you risk snapping the top right off, but if you make the glass base as wide as the metal, then you can really epoxy it down and make it that much more stable. I hope that made sense.

-James

[Sol]

awesome..

[Arcane Glass]

I just ran into these, and asked them if the tops unscrew and they said yes. Its $108 total with shipping for 100 of them.

http://cgi.ebay.com/100-NEW-Chrome-Silver-Heart-Stopper-Wine-Wedding-Favors_W0QQitemZ5673970960QQcategoryZ20937QQrdZ1QQ cmdZViewItem

[wahoo]

best price I have seen for them yet by far

[Swampy]

Probly more expensive but just something else to consider;

http://www.abasg.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=203

[sunray]

We sell the one with the screw in it- you can do it 2 ways- with glue and a hole or take the screw out and do the top right on the screw
They are on sale for $4 each There is a picture on our web site if this doesn't upload the picture here.
www.trevsglass.com/

[Terrapin93Z]

I make stoppers alot. I buy my corks from woodcraft. They are actual corks with a 3/8 hole drilled thru them. I make a maria on a 10mm rod then attach my top to it. The 10mm rod is slid thru the cork and then cut off. I use gorilla glue to glue the cork onto the rod. If you want some pics hit me up. I can probably round a few up.



Kene

[wahoo]

terrapin... would love to see some pix. I just checked out woodcraft's corks and they look pretty cool. I think I am just gonna get a few of everything and see what I like.