framing a collection of bottles

[kev@frames]

since a national brewer started publishing "art" on its labels, i guess it was only a matter of time before a customer came in with a carrier bag full of (sadly empty) beer bottles and asked us for a quote.
anyway, to cut a long story short, they didn't like the quote. Which was probably just as well.

ive done these before with single bottles, by cutting "top and bottom" layers of mount with circular apertures to hold these by the neck and base, and fix these pieces top and bottom into the frame (box frame) and cheat with a splot of s*licone on the back to stop them rotating. But has anyone got a simpler framing solution for bottles?

[Not your average framer]

Hi Kev,

This is an easy one, which you might consider enjoyable too!

First visit your local pub. This might take some time. "Hic !" Eventually you may stuggle to remember the reason for your visit. "Hic !!!!" Now what was it?............ Oh, yes! Chat-up the bar maid and ask for some nice clean new beer mats and some unwanted corks from the rubbish bin.

Return to the workshop and fit the corks into the bottles, glue the bottoms of the bottles to the centre of the beer mats with silicone. Make up an insert frame to go into the back of the normal frame using flat wood linned with mount board on three sides (the beer mat covers the forth side). Fix the bottle top with a screw through the insert frame into the cork. Add a mount in front of the insert frame and finish job as normal.

Just in case of any breakages, it be be advantageous to bring back a few spares from the pub. Hic !!!!

Now how's your head? Hic !!!!

[Bill Henry]

If you’ve got a bunch of bottles, you’ve got a whole lot of weight.

If the guy is just interested in the labels, could you simply soak them off and frame the labels without the glassware? You could get an awful lot more labels in a frame of the same size and keep the weight of it from bringing down the walls.