Can you cut a cork?
By DIY MavenI came across these cute Wine Cork Placecard Holders at Bright and Bold. They aren’t made from real corks but rather resin. They have a flat base and a slot for the name cards themselves. On sale for $22.95 for 12, they seem DIY-able, if using real corks, of course. Which provokes the question: anybody every cut a cork?
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Fabulous idea... seen this idea at Uncommon Goods.
The comments are great... razor blade is the way to go. You can also tie two together vertically and slice the top for a placecard. Looks great:
http://lovemyearth.blogspot.com/2007/05/crazy-for-corks.html
Good luck!
hyoomen
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hyoomen...this is fabulous!!! The real cork looks sooo much cooler than the resin ones. Great tip about weighting the bottom too. Bravo!!!!
hyoomen
A search of Google yielded http://www.takegreatpictures.com/HOME/Columns/Family_Photo_Projects/Details/Cork_Picture_Holders.fci
I also attempted the project with an X-acto knife and the first cork I could locate. Given my disinterest in breaking out 'the tools' (aka sandpaper, Dremel tool, backsaw, etc), I simply used the grip portion of the X-acto knife to do a bit of sanding down and VOILA!
Thanks for the idea. In the future I'll use this as a way to display wine labels that have been mounted to cardstock. I think those resin corks are yet another example of a 'crafty item' being denegrated by means of mass production. The only advantage I can conceive of is a bit of weight.
To remedy the issue of light-weight corks not holding up heavier items, you might consider hot-gluing a small weighted object underneath the cork.
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