How to Make a Floating Wine Bottle Pillar

This floating wind bottle pillar will amaze your friends!! It's also a great project for working with the angle adjustments on your Proxxon tools.

Supplies and Equipment for Making the Floating Wine Bottle Pillar

• piece of wood (hardwood or Baltic birch plywood) ~16" x 4" x ¾"
• Proxxon Table Saw FET
• Proxxon MICRO Bandsaw MBS/E
• Proxxon Disc Sander TSG 250/E
• Proxxon Delta Sander OZI/E
• 1½" hole saw
• Finishing wax

Instructions for Making the Floating Wine Bottle Pillar

1. Set the longitudinal stop on the table saw so the cut board measures 3¼" wide.
   
2. Measure and mark a line across the width 15" from the top.
3. Adjust the angle of the bandsaw to 27° and cut on the marked line. This is the bottom of the pillar.
   
4. Measure and mark a line 3 1/8" from the top. Measure 1 5/8" from one edge and mark a cross line. The intersection of the two lines is the center of the 1½" hole that you will drill.
   
5. I pulled out DH's big drill for drilling the 1½" hole for the neck of the wine bottle.
   
6. Sand the edges on the disc sander. Adjust the angle of the table to 27°to sand the bottom end of the pillar.
   
7. Sand the surfaces with the Delta Sander, using progressively finer grits of sandpaper.
   
8. Apply the finishing of your choice to the floating wine bottle pillar—paint, stain, wax. I chose a paste wax finish.
9. Amaze your friends with a floating wine bottle!!