That's where I come in...My name is Ed and I create each stopper top with an exotic wood piece that
I hand-turn on a wood lathe. Each stopper is a custom one of a kind creation designed
to your specifications. I can easily fashion the stopper as
a flame, egg, hourglass, flat top, curved top, etc. Just ask and
if it's possible, I'll do it at no extra charge! Please contact me
at
TheBottleStopsHere@Hotmail.com
The tapered chrome stoppers are
completely safe for a consumable. The silicone stoppers are
designed to expand to fill the neck of virtually any wine bottle.
The Bottle Stops Here
Silicone bottom $12 - Chrome bottom $18
Hand-Made Exotic Wooden Wine Bottle Stoppers
Air chemically changes Wine. When you are letting wine breathe, or decanting, this change is beneficial. However, after a couple of hours, most wines will start to degrade and loose the original taste and aroma. Within a day or two, the wine spoils and NO ONE wants that. Anything you can do to keep air out of the bottle will prolong the life of the left-overs.
The easiest, and least expensive, answer is to put a stopper in the bottle. And why not have a good looking, long lasting, conversation-starting stopper?
The woods pictured above from left to right on the top row: Tulipwood,
Bocote, Cocobolo, Zebrawood, Pink Ivory, Marblewood, Bubinga, Paduak, Red
Palm, Kingwood, Mun Ebony.
The woods pictured above from left to right on the bottom row: Anigre,
Lacewood, Purpleheart, Canarywood
Due to the wood's great beauty and high value, the trees
yielding this wood have been heavily exploited. It is very rare to
find them outside of
national parks, reserves or plantations. Only relatively small amounts of
this prized wood reach the world market. Below is a list of regions
for each type of wood:
Anigre - West and East Africa, Tanzania.
Bocote - Mexico
Bubinga - Equatorial Africa
Canarywood - South America
Cocobolo - Central America.
Kingwood - South America. (Kingwood supposedly got its name from
several French kings (Louis XIV and Louis XV) that preferred the wood in the
use of fine furniture.)
Lacewood - Australia
Marblewood - South America
Mun Ebony or Moon Ebony - Laos. (Collected from trees that have fallen on
the jungle floor an estimated 100 yrs or more ago.)
Padauk - Africa
Pink Ivory - South Africa. (Royal wood of the Zulu's. Legend
has it that possession by
non-royals was punishable by death. Very Rare.)
Purpleheart - South America
Red Palm - Usa (This is one of the more unusual grain patterns.)
Tulipwood - South America. Grows in a small area in Brazil
Zebrawood - Central Africa
To order please contact me at
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