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The other night in an episode of "Restaurant Impossible," they were making wine racks for this restaurant out of 4" PVC pipe. Cut the pipe in lengths of the bottle, then stack on top of each other. I think this might be the way I go for my wine rack. I'm not really that worried about aesthetics since it will be down in our cellar and I basically really just want something to hold a bunch of wine bottles on their sides like they should be for long term storage. I'm thinking of building a wooden frame to hold all the cut pieces of pipe in, then find some good way to secure the pipes, like industrial strength glue or epoxy. Or even PVC glue.

I saw that episode - I thought that was a very creative way to build wine racks, especially if you either are going for a modern look, or simply don't care about aesthetics.

As far as securing the sections of pipe, PVC glue should work fine for pipe-pipe joints. You might need to experiment a bit to figure out the best technique. I would imagine that a 6x6 or 8x8 matrix of PVC pipe sections would be very rigid.

For pipe-wood joints, you'll want to use something like gorilla glue or epoxy. Screws would work as well.

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Some people prefer bottling. I prefer to put my stuff in cans.