What can you do with wine corks?

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fatcat55

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I've been following this forum for awhile and reading about all the different creative uses folks have come up with for different items and it got me thinking.

I was looking at a bunch of wine corks and got to wondering what can they be used for?

Figured somebody would have some suggestions for how to put them to good use.

Thanks in advance.
 
they make fine fishing floats! push a bamboo skewer thru them, drip in superglue for a bomber hold, spray with marine white paint then dry, tape off and spray red or yellow ro green stripes, then some clear coat.

"whip" on a swivel onto the bottom of the skewer , seal the thread whip with fly tying glue and go fishin!
 
fishing bobbers for sunfish, bluegill, crappie etc. They work awesomely. From what I hear they plug up bullet channels real nicely too.
 
One trick I learned many years ago but only needed it last year . If a light bulb breaks off use a cork to remove the remainder ! Just push in and turn . Safe and quick !
 
Corks will clean carbon steel blades without scratching them. They will also protect sharp pointy objects from giving/recieving damage. One could also soak them in alcohol or mineral spirits and use them for starting fires, if one were so inclined. I hear they make good mulch when they are ground up, but I've never done that.

There is also a secondary market for corks, believe it or not. If you have enough*, it might be worth your while to look into that. I'm not talkin retirement money or anything, but they retail for around $.25.


* By enough, I mean a buttload.
 
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fix a hole in a raft in an emergency situation. You plug the hole and use the cork as a base to lash hole shut. If it tries to open, put a stake through it and lash under the stake to hold the material around the cork. the Ray mears explains it all, lol... Start watching at 2:00 mins if you just want to see the cork part.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMSUK6RBios
 
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A friend of mine in college saved up a whole bunch of them and cut em in half. Some glue, a frame, and many hours later she produced a pretty cool bulletin board that might look nice in someones office.
 
Burn them and rub it on you for really mediocre camo, fishing bobber, for sharps protection, glue a bunch of them together in a frame for a cork board for messages, as a stopper in a bottle (sometimes called a "cork").
 
make a trivet framed with 1"x2" and ; could paint it and make it nice

use a bunch to make a dart board frame backing

Could use a bunch of them in making a bar top with lucite/glass as a top layer

make a message pin board for the garage

make little boats/sail boats with the kids

lots of little kids crafts in general (mine are 2 and 3 and love crafts)

I use Belgain style beer corks as handle bar plugs for bicycles


the list goes on and on.. Just be creative
 
i use a champagne cork as an ersatz "fishing reel" in my survival kit.

shove a piece of coathanger wire through the middle of the cork and trim it off (only for strengthening the cork), wind fishing line around the cork, tie a hook on the end and stick the hook into the cork for safety.

voila. small, light and cheap.
 
Well, it has nothing to do with survival craft, but no one else mentioned it so I am clearly the only one on earth with this.

I can place a wine cork in my lips, puff my cheeks, and create enough pneumatic pressure to shoot the cork at a ridiculous velocity up to or even over 30 feet. If I aim at somebody, I can hit 'em with a stinging force.

For some reason, around 1999, it occurred to me to do this in a fairly snooty restaurant. The cork shot off to the other side of the restaurant, straight over some doofus' head, and when paaaaang! into a sconce just behind him and bounced out onto their table. Scared the crap out of the poor guy and his date.

My wife really let me have it for about two hours afterward, but it's never failed to cheer me up, because to this day he probably thought the light exploded and a wine cork shot out of it onto his table. He probably still tells the story to this day, and doesn't have any explanation for what happened.

Anyway. That's what I can do with a wine cork.
 
My dad showed me when i was a kid if you take a smaller cork cut it in half and sandwich a fishing hook and small black feather (feather acts like a tail) it was killer on the bass
 
You can stick four spinners like a Mepps or Panther Martin in it to keep them separated in your tackle box so they are not tangled.
 
Thanks for all the suggestions. Some of them are pretty creative and some are...well,.. original. (I do like the champagne cork fishing reel)

Probably somewhere between using them as...corks... and covering a truck with corks, I will find a use.

Or, I may let them continue to sit where they have been for the last several years.

Anyway, thanks again.
 
kage said:
Burn them and rub it on you for really mediocre camo, fishing bobber, for sharps protection, glue a bunch of them together in a frame for a cork board for messages, as a stopper in a bottle (sometimes called a "cork").
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I carry cork (burnt) with me on all my hunting outings. I actually find it is far better than mediocre for camouflaging for a few reasons. 1. It is cheap 2. It isn't shiny when applied 3. It is easy to remove 4. It doesn't have an odor that will spook game.
 
ejes said:
I carry cork (burnt) with me on all my hunting outings. I actually find it is far better than mediocre for camouflaging for a few reasons. 1. It is cheap 2. It isn't shiny when applied 3. It is easy to remove 4. It doesn't have an odor that will spook game.
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5. It's a lot of fun providing yourself more wine corks when you run out.
 
for you cyclers out there-shove em into the ends of yr handlebars(any style, tho you may have to shave down a bit for mtn bars). they wont pop out. and may save you or a pal from taking a core sample during a crash.
 
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