bottle stoppers

[JHFerrell]

I am looking for information and/or advice on how to get started turning bottle stoppers. I have a lathe with a #1 Morse taper. Can anyone lead me in the right direction? I am assuming I will need some kind of chuck or special mandrel but I am just not quite sure and I figured with all the knowledgable folks here surely someone would be able to help me. Thanks in advance

 

[DWK5150]

I bought the starter kit from woodcraft. Comes with a couple kits and a mandrel which is held in a chuck.

 

[ed4copies]

http://www.arizonasilhouette.com/Bottle_Stoppers.htm

This mandrel works well (and I've messed up a bunch of stoppers before I got this). Need to mount in some kind of chuck, which could be mounted on a #1MT or threaded to your lathe.

Either way, have fun-lots of possible designs for bottle stoppers.

 

[arioux]

Hi,

There is a complete group on yahoo about bottle stopper. You might fins a lot of interesting idea and material there.
Hope this help,

Alfred

oups, forgot the link

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopper/

 

[Bev Polmanteer]

Your link doesn't work!
Try this one

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bottlestopperturners/

 

[vick]

John,
Before I got my stopper mandrel I was using a piece of all thread in my jacobs chuck and it worked fine. That being said the mandrel works a little better more stable in the chuck tapered threading, exact match to stopper threading ect. The mandrel also mount in a jacobs chuck.