Texas-Shaped Coaster: Wine Corks and Plywood

Series Summary

Regardless of what state you live in, even regardless of what country you live in, Texas is probably bigger than where you live. The Grand Canyon, the Pyramids at Giza, Niagara Falls, the Great Wall of China, the Roman Coliseum, are all good and nice, but they are not great because they are not in Texas. There is nothing more beautiful and profound than big trucks, beautiful women, Shiner Bock beer, cowboy hats, Republicans, and humidity, which are all the things that Texas does best. Texas was its own nation for 12 years and don't forget it.

Because of how awesome Texas is, you would be a Yankee idiot to not want to serve your drinks on a Texas-shaped coaster. Any not just any coaster, but one which shows off your drinking prowess. Each cork in your coaster made of wine corks demonstrates your impeccable taste in wine, or at least your very Texas-like ability to drink more wine that anyone in any other state in the entire United States. So take that, you lesser 49, as Texans enjoy our drinks the way they should be enjoyed: on a Texas-shaped coaster!

Video Transcript

"Hi there. Today we're going to do a little craft project using wine corks and plywood. And this is a partially finished version of it. This is the state of Texas. So I guess you can guess where this video is being shot. And I found the outline on the side of a building. And I traced around it on a piece of paper. And then cut that out. And then using rubber cement I put it down on a piece of plywood and cut around it with my band saw. Now, I'm going to make a set of these. This is the big one. And it needs and edge banding, but we'll get to that later. So I'm going to make another one now, that's smaller than this one. This is a small state of Texas; you don't have to worry about this junk on the board that will all go away. And this is one of four that I'm going to make to go along with this one. And it makes a set. So the first step is going to be to cut out Texas. Now I got this shape from a large road map. And I cut out Texas and did the same thing, rubber cement and traced around it. And so I've got a line here, and I'm going to cut out this on my band saw."