Texas-Shaped Coaster: Cut Wine Corks

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O.K. the corks I'm going to use are corks from wine bottles, but you can use regular corks without any printing on them. I like to do this because it gives it a little bit of charm and I cut the corks length wise so that the brand name of the wine shows on the top part, and I'm going to cut them using this little jig I made which I slip onto my ban saw. First I'm going to raise the blade and slide it down this little slot, which I've already cut. Right about there should be O.K., and I'll let my blade back down, just a little bit you want the cork to be able to clear it. Now I don't know exactly how many wine corks were going to use, but what I did is I went to restaurants, basically or places that sell a lot of wine, and have wine tastings and I asked them to keep the corks for me so over a couple of months I got a pretty big collection of these corks. I already have some cut in half, but I'm going to show you what I do to cut these corks. This little device right here, I glued these two little strips so I can take a full size cork and set it in here and push it through the blade. the advantage of this is that I could put another cork behind it and push that one through and my fingers never have to get very close to the blade now you want to sort of hold a cork from twisting, but this isn't rocket science, You know just cut them in half they'll look great. O.K. you're going to go ahead and do that with maybe, for this probably twenty or thirty cork. Just keep lining them up Whoops sorry. You just keep lining them up one at after the other and pushing them through that ban saw blade.

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