Wine Glass Rack Under Buffet Shelf

Betty decided that since we have been accumulating wine glasses (for meade), we should have a decent place to store them. So she looked around and found a space under a shelf on one of our buffet hutches.    

After a lot of measuring I decided 3/8" vertical clearance and and 3" width would be enough clearance for the bottom of the wine glass.   The flange holding the wine glass's bottom will be 1" deep with 1" between the slides,   A lot of racks have 1/2" flanges but due to the differences in wine glasses, a small glass is easily dislodged and broken.   I decided on a 1/4" thick flange holding the wine glass so 1/4" plus 3/8" space meant the slides needed to be 5/8" thick.   The two 1" flanges that hold the glass bottom and the 1-1/4" pad between mean the bars should be 3-1/4" wide.  
I cut some 1X4 to 10-1/4" long (depth of the buffet shelf) then resawed them to 5/8" thick by 3-1/4" wide (2 of them 2-1/4" wide for the end pieces).   Then I set up my router table to cut a 3/8" high by 1" wide rabbet.
I had also noticed that in other wine glass racks it didn't take much of a shove to move the wine glasses hanging upside down on a rack, frequently resulting in breaking the glass.   So I decided to make detents for the glasses to rest in, hopefully making them a little more stable in their position.  
The detents would be 1/2 of a 1" hole with about a 1/2" chamfer (tapered).   By half of a 1" hole, I mean put two of the slides together and drill a 1" hole in the crack between them, then chamfer the hole with a raised face frame bit.  

I also included a couple of pics of a Wine Wing, made and given to me by my friend Rick Wild.  

The little buffet / hutch Betty chose for the wine glass rack.   Note, there are a lot of wine glasses on the top shelf, the new rack will free up that space.   A project to follow this will create a wine rack so the bottles under the shelf will also be gone.

The wine glasses will hang upside down, underneath the bottom of this shelf (not unlike bats).   Compare after the wine glass rack was installed.

End of a slide after routing a 1" wide by 3/8" deep rabbet on each side.

Two of the slides with 1" holes drilled between them.   Note the pilot holes drilled on each edge to mark spots for more 1" holes.   I use this technique of drilling large holes from both sides to prevent tear out and it just makes the finished hole look better without a lot of sanding.

Here I've separated the two slides, more like they'll be installed, so you can see the 1/2 holes better.

The two end slides are a little more than 1/2 of the other slides.

A little closer look at a 1" hole drilled in the crack between two other boards.   You have to clamp the boards together both horizontally and vertically and support them well.

Some of the slides waiting to have the 1" holes drilled.

Here you can see where I drilled the pilot holes for the 1" holes.   I used the same technique to drill the pilot holes as for the larger holes (clamped tightly, both directions).

Here are the slides drying after staining.

One of the slides, drying.   You can see the counter bored mounting holes.

End view of a mounting board.   This is upside down to how they'll be finally mounted.

One of the end slides, shown right side up.

Note my painting rack.   I clamped a piece of 1x2 vertically in each bench vise, then clamped a 1-1/2" piecee of aluminum angle (was original top of garage door) across the top to hang the pieces on.

Another shot of the slides on my kluge rack.

Installed, compare before the wine glass rack was installed.

Closer up of wine glass slides.   I almost made them flush, but I got to thinking and decided to make them a little more easy to get the glass into.

Most of the bars have all three glasses hanging.

A look underneath, you can see the detents for each glass.   And the counterbored mounting holes.

A little closer look at the end slides.

Adding back some of Betty's other glassware (yes, we like M&Ms).

You can't get as many wine bottles (they're tall), but you can get a few.   You'll note 3 different meades (Apricot, Raspberry, and Apple) and one port.

This is a wine wing made and given to me by my friend Rick Wild.   The wood is Zebra Wood.

Rick is a teriffic craftsman, and more of an artist than I am.   This thing just balances this bottle of peach liquor, but it'll work with any 750ml bottle i've tried.

Here is what it looks like when it isn't balanced.