All,
I am building a wine rack for my wife. It will have a casework surround and diamond shaped grid to hold the bottles. The grid will be 1/2″ square stock with one grid at the front and one at the rear. PLEASE SEE ATTACHED PICTURE. I do not know how to join the grid to the casework. I do not have a pin driver, I thought that would be the best way to attach it. Please Help!
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Is the grid going to completely fill the space (no gaps along any of the edges)? If so, I wouldn't worry about it too much; a few dabs of glue are plenty strong enough to hold it in position.
-Steve
saschafer,
The only attachment points will be the tips of the diamond corners. I was concerned about glue strength holding eight bottles of wine, especially one liter bottles.
Salina steve
If there is no gap between the grid pieces and the frame, then it's not the glue strength that's holding up the wine bottles, it's the triangulated wedging action of the grid pieces against the frame. The only function the glue serves is to keep the grid from coming out of the frame, and possibly to avoid some rattling if the fit isn't perfect. Try it yourself and see: Put your assembled grid into a snugly-fitting box, without any glue. You'll be hard pressed to budge the grid pieces at all by hand.
Granted, if you threw the bottles into the rack, you might have a problem....
-Steve
Thanks, there is a flat area on the ends of the diamonds where they meet the case. I'll try it with scrap and do a test.
SalinaSteve
A drop of glue will be nice but a little additional insurance might be better.
depending on the angle you could drill a small pilot hole for a pin nail and tap it in with a hammer and nail set. invisible- cheap and just enough grab to protect the "investment"
cheers
dave
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