Segmented Bottle Stopper

[darrylm]

I bought my topper kits about a year and a half ago. I made my first topper a couple months back when I was tring to figure out the process with a friend.

I had made this blank to be part of another segmented pen, but got to thinking that it was just about the right size to make a topper also. There are about 120 +/- pieces of walnut, maple, bloodwood and sapele in this piece. I used the same CA/BLO finish (thanks Russ Fairfield!) on the topper that I use on my pens. The stopper top is about 2-1/4" tall.

 

[fiferb]

Beautiful! That has to be the first complex segmentation I've ever seen on a bottle stop.

 

[TellicoTurning]

That's one busy bottle stopper, gotta give you that one.. it's beautiful...

 

[Glenn McCullough]

Nice segmenting and it makes a fine looking stopper. Well done!

 

[marcruby]

That's quite an achievement. I expect it will attract quite a bit of attention.

Marc

 

[GaryMGg]

Good workmanship Darryl. That's might fine looking.

 

[Jim15]

Thats great, nice work.

 

[patharris]

Wow! that is fascinating. I love it! Now, I guess I will have to muster up the patience to cut & glue some segments. Great job, thansk for sharing.
Pat

 

[darrylm]

Thanks guys, I appreciate it.
There should be a few more of these coming. seems they have become quite a converstation piece.

 

[rando81]

nice job that's a beautiful stopper