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Wine Bottle Stopper Display

I couldn't open the link. I use wine bottles. I turned 2 rings to fit loosely on the outside of the wine bottle. I drilled holes so the wine stoppers fit in the rings. I glued the rings to the bottle with epoxy. The gallery I sell through had trouble selling wine stoppers when they were in a stair case kind of display. I built the wine bottle display and they sell quite a few of my stoppers every year.
 
I started making these turnings to display turnings about 8 -10 years ago. They are great for retail displays. And, there are quite a few bottle stopper collectors out there who need displays like these as well.
 

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Stopper display

Matt I turned a "bottle" out of a piece of wood. Put it on a small foot and drilled holes along the top. Sorry but I'm too lazy for a pic but you get the idea.
 
john lucas said:
I couldn't open the link. I use wine bottles. I turned 2 rings to fit loosely on the outside of the wine bottle. I drilled holes so the wine stoppers fit in the rings. I glued the rings to the bottle with epoxy. The gallery I sell through had trouble selling wine stoppers when they were in a stair case kind of display. I built the wine bottle display and they sell quite a few of my stoppers every year.
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the link has some extra characters on the end - so try

http://www.dnvturnings.com/winestoppers.htm

Personally I like the one Nick Cook has on his website - see picture below from his site.
 

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Ruth Niles said:
Matt,

I find people who have a collection of stoppers really like a display stand that does not incorporate a bottle. They want something that's simple and just holds the stoppers for everyone to admire......something easy to dust!
For those people who dust....... 😱 😀
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Have to say I'm surprised at this. I finally added a small tree to hang a few ornaments on in my sales display. People kept taking them off the hooks on the rack and trying to make tops out of them.

Seems it would save answering a lot of questions from the beer or even tea set who don't re-cork, but simply empty their bottles and return (OK, tea doesn't return) them for deposit. Or do people who collect stoppers only associate with other oenophiles? 🙄
 
MichaelMouse said:
Have to say I'm surprised at this. I finally added a small tree to hang a few ornaments on in my sales display. People kept taking them off the hooks on the rack and trying to make tops out of them.

Seems it would save answering a lot of questions from the beer or even tea set who don't re-cork, but simply empty their bottles and return (OK, tea doesn't return) them for deposit. Or do people who collect stoppers only associate with other oenophiles? 🙄
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Michael, I read it that Matt was making a display for a customer to use in her home. I agree that at a show where you're selling you're stoppers a bottle definitely is an asset. I even use one in my vendor's booth at the turning symposiums.......buyers do need to see the product in use.

Ruth
 
Me too, but if he's got beer friends instead of winos, it could be a help.

In our town the co-op carries wine in boxes or in twist-off tops. Nobody would figure out what he was collecting.
 
I don't understand wine bottle stoppers either

Somehow all my wine bottles become empty immediately after opening. And besides Ruth's stoppers don't fit in the one gallon jugs I buy anyway.
 
I sell at least 100 stoppers per year. My line is 'I don't know if they work, I always finish the bottle' Good show item, great little gift excellant corporate gift.

Frank
 
YoYoSpin said:
I started making these turnings to display turnings about 8 -10 years ago. They are great for retail displays. And, there are quite a few bottle stopper collectors out there who need displays like these as well.
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They are admirable and make sense for a collector of bottle stoppers but for displaying stoppers that are for sale, something that doesn't distract from the stoppers might make more sense.

Malcolm Smith.
 
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