Thirst Aid Station
Last Christmas my brother moved and I got the idea to get him a wall mounted bottle opener for his new flat. I found a nice bear head shaped opener online and decided to build the wooden mounting plate myself.
Unfortunately, DHL had something to say about that. I got the components eventually, just not in time for Christmas. So this idea lay around until his birthday drew near.
Basically I just drew inspiration from some pics online for the image. After sketching it out on blue tape, I engraved it with a rotary tool, but it looked mediocre. Next try was to burn the outlines in with an old soldering iron, which worked way better.
A leftover 20kg magnet was epoxied into the lower end of the wooden plate to catch the bottle caps.
I then masked the area around the cross in the middle and stained it with some teak wood stainer which I had from other projects.
It turned out suboptimal since it spilled below the masking tape in some areas. A bit of scratching with a cutter knife fixed that.
After that is was mainly a question of sanding and oiling the entire thing.
