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This vodka bottle coffee table was inspired by the wonderful Ten Green bottle shelves. In this instructable I demonstrate various simple uses for a r...
Materials: 4 identical solid glass bottles (I used 500 mL 42 Below vodka bottles, they are long and thin) A sufficient quantity of reasonable quality...
My wood needed a bit of tidying up to make the surfaces look nice. I sanded all the planks with 100 grit sandpaper. I then decided which pieces looke...
Using roundover bits on a simple corner results in a nice point, but as a coffee table, I didn't want people barking their shins on a corner. In the ...
Next, start routing. I rounded over the top edges on each board, and the bottom edges on the boards that would form the side edges of the shelves. I ...
My original plan was to use my hole saw and drill press to make the holes for the bottles. However my holesaw is gettng a bit old and didn't want to m...
The support pieces are very simple. I made my support pieces with a 45 degree angle at each end, so they wouldn't be so obvious when the shelf is made...
Before assembling the shelves, I sanded the inside roundover edges, because they would be difficult to sand after the shelves were together. I sanded...
Now it's time to screw the shelves together using the support pieces. To line up the supports before drilling, I marked their centre to match the cen...
At this stage I was able to finish rounding over the ends of the boards. The shelves are really too big for my router table, so I clamped the shelves ...
I wanted this project to look really nice, so I sanded the shelves of the coffee table with 180 grit, then 220 grit and lastly 280 grit sandpaper. I ...
At this stage I wanted to make sure the thing was going to fit together properly. I screwed two hooks into the supports under the top shelf, and a ma...
At this stage I did notice a subtle flaw: there were some small vertical gaps forming due to the planks being bent upwards and downwards by the bottle...
I finished the wooden parts by wiping on five coats of thinned polyurethane (50% polyurethane, 50% turps). You can buy commercial wipe-on polyurethan...
Assembly is the easiest step. Looks good!
Strength The glass bottles are quite thick and solid and, once compressed into the coffee table, very strong. Glass as a material is very strong in c...
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