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[mcmonkey]

Hello,

I come from Austria/Europe. My way of writing is not the best, apology.
I write better in German than in English language. ;)

That is my first sculpture.

greeting from Austria

Thomas

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[Chad J]

That's pretty nice! Great Job!

[Ratel10mm]

Lovely piece, welcome to IFI. :)

[Mick]

clicking on thumbs in this thread will open windows outside of ifi.
i don't know if it is malicious or not but beware.

[Glenn]

It may be the equivalent of photobucket. I have attached the threads to the forum so there is no outside linking involved.

[David Einhorn]

Glenn did a great job of attaching the images directly to the forum. For those that are curious how to examine a photograph's location, right-click on the thumbnail or photograph and you will be able to see the web address of the image, starting with the website's name.

[mcmonkey]

The LINK to the pictures was not meant malicious. I did not know it better. In Austria is this kind of pictures up-loads usual practice. I did not want to release a panic with my first forum-tread:) - Sorry!

Perhaps there is nevertheless still feedback to the forging work.

greetings from Austria

Thomas

[BIGGUNDOCTOR]

Nice job. Curious though, are there still a lot of bottles in Austria that need a bottle opener? Most bottles I see here in the U.S.A. are twist off caps. Matter of fact, I can't remember the last time I needed a bottle opener.

You can also use the user control panel to update your location.

Don't worry about your English. Even though my last name is Hess your English is better than my German :D

[beth]

mr biggun most bottles in europe need a bottle opener!:) thomas i love yr work - i particularly love his massive eye punched right through. he is very robust! hope you like the forum:)

[winterbear]

I really like the opener, can you tell us how you cut the material for the horns/ears and the lower jaw?
Chris

[mcmonkey]

hallo,

thanks for your praise. Praise from the other side of the world is new for me :o

material 5/8 (16mm) square bar
rectangular bend
mark mouth and eye
drill the eye with 3mm
mouth cut, mouth must be a little bit longer than the head
mark the nose and model it
eye punch 10mm
collars crown simply cut with a portable circular saw or a Chisel, and bend accordingly
form the mouth
handle: torsion or other ornament
file the collars crown
surface: engine oil and bee wax

I hope it ist understandable. I practiced for a long time before the work procedures were correct:(

In Austria we are old fashionable:cool:. Therefore are many bottles without "twist-caps"

Thomas

[teenylittlemetalguy]

Excellent! really nice to see such fine work.
most of our locally made beer needs an opener so I need to try one of these, it will go well with the corkscrew Hofi demo'd

[Cross Pein]

BIGGUNDOCTOR said:

Curious though, are there still a lot of bottles in Austria that need a bottle opener? Most bottles I see here in the U.S.A. are twist off caps. Matter of fact, I can't remember the last time I needed a bottle opener.

BIGGUNDOCTOR, I cant remember the last time I consumed from a twist off. Soda bottles are plastic (I don't drink soda - scared of Diabetes!) and the kind of beer that comes in twist-off bottles is so bland that I would rather drink water or go dry. I brew most of the beer I drink - so twist off is not an option. When we go out - it's Sam Adams or Guinness (both need an opener - but I don't open them!) I had my first Sam Adams when they introduced it (probably 15 years ago) and haven't had a Bud or a Miller since - probably never will.

McMonky - Welcome to the forum. I love the bottle opener. I have seen tons of stuff on this forum that I want to try when the smithy is complete - Yours is the first that has inspired me to finally create a folder and bookmark the thread. Thanks for sharing. I will probably make some of those for gifts. It will be a nice small piece to practice on.

Edited by Cross Pein, 27 November 2009 - 04:43 PM.
Forgot the welcome!

[matto]

the bottle opener is great. next you can start doing church key openers.
" if you don't need an opener for your beer you need to buy better beer"

matt o

[clinton]

the forging is great you had to move allot of metal your writing is fine and i bet the beer that you are opening is much better than the twist off bottles that were mentioned earlier i like a good pilsner the Czech beers are excellent

[MRobb]

mcmonkey, welcome to the forum. We are glad you are here. Your English is just fine. No worries.
I really like what you have made. I will have to try it also. Thank you for posting. I look forward to seeing future work.
(small world, I have family in Vienna )

Mitch

[Jocko 58]

Well done nice piece of work :D

[Rio Bravo]

Thomas,

That's a wonderful bit of work in any language. Well done!

Dave

[welder19]

That is one of the nicest bottle openers I'ev seen....great work!

welder19

[bluemountainforge]

Nice work! Life's too short to drink cheap beer!:D