What do you do with broken wine glasses?
Take one basic spindle, round it, drill a hole equal to the narrowest diameter of the glass stem
Taper the hole to fit the glass stem ...
... until the glass stem fits snugly
Reverse it on to the mini lathe
Round off all the remaining corners
Reverse it on to a cone revolving centre in the tailstock
Turn the spindle down to 25 mm diameter
Turn some beady and covey bits and a spiky bit for standing in the lawn at a Kirstenbosch concert or into beach sand
Increase the class factor by a factor of ten by adding some grooves
Increase the class factor by another significant factor by burning black lines with a piece of wire
Part it off to a fine point, insert the glass and add another tool to your tool rack!
Here I am with my friends Gerry and Holly at the Kirstenbosch concert with the resurrected glasses
Many of those around commented favourably about them
"Look Ma no hands"
