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Cutting Wine Corks
by
Ronja Lotte
(IC: blogger)
20 Minutes
Easy
When working with recycling-materials, you often have to play around, until something works and often many different methods result in the desired outcome. Since I needed cut corks for a project, I made it a test and tried two approaches to easily cut corks.
By itself are the two methods not very different but there are people at the internet who emphatically prefer one method over the other. With method 1 you have to steam the corks for about ten minutes under a lid. With method 2 the corks are directly boiled in the water for about ten minutes.
Afterwards I detected on my corks absolutely no difference, whether steamed or boiled. Honestly, everything else would have been a great surprise for me.
What actually makes a big difference, is the cork itself. If you cut cork, you can see that some corks are processed differently - some have the same structure as compressed wood - and these can be cut much easier. Otherwise, it is simply best to use the sharpest knife that you can find, then the corks can be cut quite smoothly.
and now...? There are a lot of great projects for which you will need cut wine corks and I am just about to finish one of them ;-) If you want to see more of my tutorials and projects, just visit my blog ;-)
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Published September 23rd, 2014 10:31 AM
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Ronja Lotte on Feb 25, 2016@KatAych I hope you had a nice boiling cork-day ;-)
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Ronja Lotte on Feb 25, 2016@KatAych Great!
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Art Ross on Feb 25, 2016I use a band saw and belt sander on the corks I use for future bottle stoppers. the stopper holds up the lights inside the bottle
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Ronja Lotte on Feb 25, 2016@Art Ross nice :-) good job!
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