DIY Wine Rack - Great Way to Display Wines and Glasses!

A former student who is now a friend asked us to make a wine rack for her sister as a Christmas gift. After seeing her inspiration picture, my husband designed his own version and we built two wine racks in a few hours. Why two? We figured if we were going to the trouble to make one, we may as well make a second to keep.
Here you can see the top, bottom, sides, and middle divider pieces cut to length and put in approximate position. The middle boards are to be attached with dados cut into the top and bottom boards with 4" between the vertical boards. The two outside boards are to be butt jointed to the top and bottom horizontal boards.
It's looking good, so far! The pieces are shown dry fitted before the shelf dados are routed. The glass and bottle are used to determine the placement of the shelves. Similar to the process for routing the dados for the top and bottom, the shelf dados were all cut with the boards laying flat. The depth of the shelf dados are 1/4". One pass with the router for all 5 vertical boards for one set of shelves. Then only the three middle boards were flipped over to route the other side to make the interior shelf dados.


Assemble the wine rack and glue all pieces into place. After dry fitting all the pieces together one last time, it was time to glue the wine rack together. In addition to glue, the outside vertical boards were nailed (using 2" finish nails) to the top and bottom boards to strengthen the butt joint. Box clamps were used to ensure that the rack remained square during setup.
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Paula Skulina
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  • Landon Chitty Landon Chitty on Jan 10, 2016
    How would this hang on the wall? Are there key slots routed in the back?
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