Mounting wine bottles?

[Rick Granick]

I have to come up with some ideas for a project to frame some wine labels and two wine bottles. Anyone know a good method for mounting wine bottles? I'm thinking they don't necessarily have to be inside the frame with the labels.
Rick

 

[j Paul]

Pat, from AttachEZ has a neat way of doing it. Basically she does a mat cut out (arch top) that the bottom half of the bottle nests into. Build up the back with foam core, then you can tie a ribbon around the neck to hold it in place. The same for wine flutes. Possibly she has a picture on her site.

 

[Rick Granick]

Any kind of acrylic holders or brackets, maybe?
Rick

 

[Dave]

Like J Paul said, Pat had some very nice presentations she showed us at our seminar at the fall Great Lakes PPFA Chapter meeting.

She's a very creative lady!

 

[CAframer]

I guess similar to what's already been described, we use tight fit sinks with bottles.

Dependent on the specifics of the bottle you can add a variety of retention methods. e.g. wedge an insert into the dimpled bottom under the sink; pop a rod mount into the mouth of the bottle; use a small Melinex strap; if its purely decorative a dab or two of silicone; etc.

For 'posh' wine bottles we like LJ's 4" Imperial shadowbox moulding and rumpled fabric.

 

[Jim Miller]

I like to use a small glass shelf under the bottle, and one clear film strap, trimmed to the width of the label and palced precisely over it. This mount is all but invisible. Making and installing the glass shelf is faster and easier than cutting a snug-fitting nest in the mat, IMO.

For the flutes, a similar technique works as well. You can see the strap on the stem of the glass, but it is not distracting.

 

[Patricia Kotnour]

If you are mounting the standard wine bottle the dimensions that I use are Wizard's Archway 301 - 3.25 wide x 8.875 high. The EZ-Tach works well to hold the neck in place....see the attached pictures. I build a shelf at the bottom for the bottle to rest on and then you can use Velcro at the bottom back side of the bottle to hold it in place. Displays of champagne and the wine bottle are both on the EZ-Tach DVD 102.

 

[Rick Granick]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I think what I'm picturing is a frame element containing the labels (maybe framed in Roma Tobbachino), mounted to a backing structure of some kind, with the bottles (which are custom engraved but have no paper labels) held outside the frame on either side. There really isn't any reason why the frame needs to be deep enough to contain the bottles too.
Rick

 

[Jim Miller]

I had a similar project. There were two wine bottles and four labels that had been removed from other bottles, but no wine glasses. I mounted the bottles by using a small glass shelf and a wide clear film strap, as already described.

The labels were mounted by wrapping each one in clear film, and then I elevated them off the background surface at different levels using undersized layers of foam center board. According to the customer's wishes, the label for the most expensive wine was elevated nearer the glass, which made it more prominent in the design.

If I were doing the same job today, I'd probably wrap each label in Stabiltex, using a carefully sized 4-ply backer. As with the clear film mounts, no glue would touch the labels.

I don't like to use adhesives in direct contact for these reasons:
1. Adhesive bonds are prone to failure in one of three different ways.
2. Adhesives leave permanent residues.

 

[Rick Granick]

The wine project is finished and delivered. I posted a story about it on the Frame Design forum:
http://www.thegrumble.com/showthread.php?p=432240#post432240
(I may catch #### here for the label-mounting methodology (PerfectMount), but they are plentiful and replaceable if it were ever necessary, and I wanted to avoid having to charge hours of extra work time)
Rick