Copper Hanging Wine Glass Rack
Because Wine...
One good thing about wine glasses is that you can use them as decoration and for drinking wine or other libations. I love the look of hanging wine glasses. It feels like ordering a drink at a swanky restaurant.
A video, because sometimes it is easier if you see it!
Create A Pattern
I measured the area that I had for my hanger and cut a piece of bristol board to fit the space. Then I stood some wine glasses side by side on the bristol board to map out the width of my coils. I needed them with enough space so that the bottoms of the glasses would not overlap but close enough togethor that the wine glasses would not fall through.
I chose to make 2 inches between rows of copper. Then I mapped this out on my bristol board.
Two 25 foot coils of 1/4″ copper tubing were the correct length for my project, with a small curl extra at each end. I unrolled the coils and straightened them as best I could.
Unbend and Bend the Tubing
Stupidly I thought I could just bend the copper by hand and create nice rounded ends for the coils. This was not happening for me. It bent at an ugly angle instead of rounding. An inexpensive pipe bender off of Amazon came to my rescue. It made coils rounded to exactly the size I needed. The tubing was laid on my map and the spot that I needed to start each coil was drawn on using the end of the pipe bender as my model for the size of the curves. I prefer to mark everything with a marker, which wipes off easily after.
Bend the Pipe
Finishing It Up
I chose to connect the two lengths of tubing by soldering them together with a 1/4″ copper coupling. I do not get nearly enough practice with soldering so I take any opportunity I get. The coupling could just as easily be glued over the joining ends. Ideally I would have used all copper, the copper hangers come with nails though and I would never hang this without screws. I was unable to find any copper screws so I used small steel screws and tried to conceal them behind loop sections at either end.
That was all there was too it! Nothing left but to pour myself a glass of wine and enjoy my handiwork.
