Brian Effinger
01-11-2009, 3:05 PM
Just wanted to post my first wine bottle stopper. I made this as practice because my SIL wants me to make one for her to give to her boss (my first commission ever :D ). The stopper is the 316 stainless steel one from Arizona Silhouette and the blank is from there too. I drilled and tapped the blank for mounting on AS's mandrel, and set it up in my Nova chuck. I turned and then wet sanded 220 to 600 and then switched over to MM to 12000. I then polished it with Novus plastic polish.
It turned out OK, but there are a few things I need to do to make the next one perfect. When I finished it in my basement shop, it looked great, but as soon as I brought it upstairs into the daylight, I could see some very fine scratches were still there. I tried to remove it from the metal, but the threads came with the blank, so I can't re-chuck it to sand a little more. If I had buffing supplies, I could probably buff them out. The other thing I noticed was there was a slight gap between the blank and the stopper on one side. My DP must have been slightly out of square to the blank. It is very slight - I couldn't even stick a sheet of paper in, but it still bugs me.
Any comments, critiques or suggestions are always welcome :)
Brian
It turned out OK, but there are a few things I need to do to make the next one perfect. When I finished it in my basement shop, it looked great, but as soon as I brought it upstairs into the daylight, I could see some very fine scratches were still there. I tried to remove it from the metal, but the threads came with the blank, so I can't re-chuck it to sand a little more. If I had buffing supplies, I could probably buff them out. The other thing I noticed was there was a slight gap between the blank and the stopper on one side. My DP must have been slightly out of square to the blank. It is very slight - I couldn't even stick a sheet of paper in, but it still bugs me.
Any comments, critiques or suggestions are always welcome :)
Brian