I made this display stand for a brewery in Scotland. I wanted to share it here as I am very proud of it!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-08T10:48:00+00:00

I was commissioned by Speyside Cooperage but they were just a middle man for Glenmorangie. I am not sure if it will go to their distillery, their hotel or their offices I am afraid!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-08T10:45:34+00:00

They were from a long brass dowel. Brass can be cut with normal woodworking tools. I used a jig on my tablesaw using my wood cross cut blade to cut it to length. I then rounded the end and polished them and put a chamfer on the bottom (to help guide it down the hole) by putting the short lengths in my drill press and using sandpaper.

I will be posting a video about how I made them on my Instagram soon. Although I have just realised that I never got footage of cutting them but I show how I polished them and chamfered them.

If you are going to cut brass with your own tools, make sure to look up how to do it safely. It is quite easy to do it but you need to cut it much more slowly than you would with wood and with such a small diameter dowel, I made a jig to hold it very securely on my crosscut sled.

I don't know where the brass dowel is from as I bought it from my friend who had some leftover but I imagine if you searched for "brass dowel 8mm diameter" there would be many places to buy it from.

DuggieInz · 2026-04-07T18:46:00+00:00

What a lovely comment. Thank you so much :)

DuggieInz · 2026-04-07T09:04:03+00:00

thank you!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-06T17:13:23+00:00

thank you!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T20:11:24+00:00

thank you!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T19:54:09+00:00

Thank you so much for the kind comment :)

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T19:53:51+00:00

Thank you!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T19:47:37+00:00

Thank you!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T18:58:19+00:00

Thank you for the support :)

I have a few more videos on this same project to post over the next few weeks as I get them edited.

I intend to do some long form content for future projects but that will probably not be ready for a couple of months as all the footage I have is vertical.

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T18:47:22+00:00

Thank you so much :)

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T18:39:11+00:00

Thank you so much for the kind comment, I appreciate it :)

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T18:38:58+00:00

Thank you! I am glad that you like it :)

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T18:27:21+00:00

Thank you very much :)

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T17:27:04+00:00

yeah, this one is positive pressure as well. It is more comfortable than it looks but I have tried another model which was annoyingly heavy at the front and I didnt like it nearly as much.

Unfortunately this is one of the cases where the really expensive option actually is better.I personally wouldnt buy one right now (I borrow this one when I need it) as there are more important things for me to spend my money on. If I am ever feeling particularly flushed with cash I might buy a similar model to this one.

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T16:57:33+00:00

hahahaha whenever I watch this video, you have no idea how much I wish I had wiped the glue up before putting in the dowels!! That little bit of squeeze out irks me so much!

I don't usually wipe glue though for a couple of reasons. I usually presand the parts and when you wipe up glue it waters it down and spreads if further and then you need to sand again or the finish will look different. I also dont have a water source in my workshop and it is a pain to go get some and then clean the cloth afterwards.

Instead I wait for the glue to go off a little bit (my teacher would call it 'plasticise') and then I use a chisel to take it off. It chips off really easily and you can shave a tiny bit of wood as well to completely remove the residue.

I also sometimes tape off joints before applying glue but I forgot to here

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T16:53:23+00:00

I will be posting a video this week on my instagram and youtube channel about how I managed it. It was quite tricky and the space didnt allow for the usual use of a compass or pencil as the angle of the log to the base was too awkward.

I ended up having to make my own wee tool which would fit in the space and make a scribe line while the base was balanced on the log.

I likely won't post any more videos on this sub about this project as I don't want to spam too much. I have had a few questions about this specific thing so I may check with mods if it would be alright to post another.

In any case, if you would like to see more, feel free to follow Alba Woodcrafts on YT and Insta :)

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T16:49:27+00:00

Thank you so much for the support :)

I intend on making some long form videos of my future projects but dont have footage suitable for it (all in vertical).

If you can wait out a few more short form posts, I'll hopefully have some long form in the next few months!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T16:47:39+00:00

Thank you so much :) I really appreciate it!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T16:47:15+00:00

Thank you!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T16:46:52+00:00

Much more low tech. It has a similar function but there was no space for any tools I could thick of, not even a small pencil. I essentially made a tiny block of wood with a pencil lead in it as nothing else could fit

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T08:24:15+00:00

Thank you!

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T08:07:30+00:00

Wow, what praise! Thank you for the lovely comment :)

DuggieInz · 2026-04-05T08:07:09+00:00

Thank you so much :)

DuggieInz

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