Milk Bottle Tops & Scrap Wood

Great idea. Simple way to achieve screw top boxes.

-- Dave -

Clever, I will borrow this great idea. Trouble is, I’m just starting out and I do not have any scraps yet but I am sure that will change soon enough.

-- Kelly, woodworker under construction

Tony: A great looking project.

You need to blog the making of these.

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Great idea! What do you use to attach the plastic threaded portion to the wood? Got to try this one. Do you bore the bottles before turning or do you hollow them on the lathe? Do you use a chuck? I agree with Karson above, we need more pix and a blog!! I can see pop bottle tops working well also.

-- Dennis, WV

Cool idea—-They look great!

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Wonderful idea. It looks like they would make great salt and pepper shakers.

-- "A goal without a plan is a wish."

Thanks for looking Jocks.
Karson & Dennis, good idea, I will do a blog. There is a fair amount of fiddly work in them.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Ampeater, yes, the original ones I saw were pepper & salt shakers.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

you old “recycler” you, nice job Grumpy, you get a colourful piece with using the scraps :))

-- Pete G: If you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got

Very nice use of scraps. using the plastic screws like that you can make a lot of things and clean out your scrap bins by the end of the year!!
Thanks for sharing. I’ll bet it give other LJ’s lots of ideas!!!

They could be used to make attractive pill bottles for us old folks!!

I made a big tube one time using 2” PVC pipe threads and the wood was bit green and moved and now I can’t get the tops off!! Use dry wood!

Merry Christmas, Tony….........................Jim

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!! Variety is the Spice of Life!!

very nice work. depending on size you could also use threaded pvc fittongs, and turn off the theeaded part to use.

-- wiser1934, new york

Really nice, Tony.

Excellent job.

Lee

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Merry Christmas to you as well Jim & all the Jocks. Thanks for looking.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Good idea with the threaded pvc Wiser.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Tony, looks like you have been standing in front of the lathe quite a bit. I have enough scrap to make a few of these, may have to give it a go.

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