#175: Wine Glass Holders and Wine Bottle Balancers

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🍷 Uncork your creativity with this beginner-friendly lesson on designing wine balancers and glass holders! Kyle demonstrates how to create these popular and customizable projects using Vectric software, perfect for unique gifts or quick sales. Learn clever tricks for designing the outer shape with chamfered corners from a simple rectangle, and accurately placing the central bottle hole. The lesson covers how to create various wine glass slot designs using circular and linear patterns, including methods for combining shapes, mirroring, and circular copying. Discover how to add personalized text and logos for engraving. Kyle guides you through generating VCarve and profile toolpaths, discussing tool selection, pass depths, and optimizing for material thickness. This lesson emphasizes efficient design techniques for using up scrap wood and producing appealing, handcrafted items.

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