Wine Cork Bulletin Board

By gather everyday item, one can produce an unusual and unique bulletin board to help gather those ideas, stresses and reminders of the everyday. All one needs is an enormous collection of wine corks (if this does not reflect your personal collections, then please contact your local alchy), an oversized "unappreciated" book, several craft items and an hour or so to spare. This object is sure to help solve that masterful equation of art + life in a harmonious way, as that their marriage in such a manifestation polishes both in a tasteful and yet productive way.

Step 1: Gather Wine Corks

First begin by collecting (hopefully over a tremendous amount of time) one hundred or so wine corks. Again, if consuming that much wine simply isn't feasible get a little help from those who already participate in collecting these items.

Comments

[Natalya]

too small pictures

[davekey]

Being mostly a consumer of box wine I don't get the opportunity to collect many corks. Your ideal has inspired me to upgrade my brand of refreshments. Thank you so much!

[Nettiemac]

If you don't drink wine but want to do this project, try asking at a cafe or bar to save you some corks.  Or ask friends and family to save theirs for you.

I did this and got a bread bag full of corks for free. 

[meowzebub]

What's the advantage of those page stubs in the center? 

Most modern hardcover books are cheaply glued into the spine, so I'd just cut the end papers to get access to the spinal glue and work the pages out.  (A steamer or hair dryer will help degrade the glue so the signatures will come out.) Then the entire surface could be covered in corks.  Unless there's a use for the torn bits that I can't fathom.

thanks for the pictorial, good idea!

[poi_pai]

Might I ask why you chose to use a book for the backing of this project?

[Jayefuu]

A good 'ible. If you cut the corks in half from circular end to circular end you'd have twice as many and they'd stick to the board better.

[Toxictom]

My wife made one of these and it looks and works great!

[keysandra]

I love this idea! It's so creative and I'm going to make one for my office!! However, what would your mother say about you having collected so many wine corks?

[Browncoat]

I wish the pics were bigger and that you had a pic of it hung up & being used, but this is SUCH a neat idea!!

[lemonie]

Good Instructable! (And unlike most people you know how to spell "voila") L