TastefullyPeenedIronWorks Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 A mess of them. Some are clearly prettier than others. Feel free to comment and critique, don’t need to be polite. Every bit helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeroclick Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 This is my first punched and drifted bottle opener and has been tested and works perfectly. The starting stock was 30mm x 5mm, i chose to do the handle as a split flat bar twist i saw on blackbear forges youtube channel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkham Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 Here’s a few I made for Christmas gifts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 Arkham, those are nice. Are those home made letter stamps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ausfire Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Arkham: Personalised cube twist openers. Well done, sir! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeroclick Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Arkham - those look great. This was my attempt at a double ended bottle opener, and my first go at a corkscrew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkham Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Looks good to me. If it pulls a cork all the better. Daswolf, they are not. But it’s interesting that you asked. I have been looking at various sizes of stamps and pondered the thought of making my own. The shoe turned out wonky, and the horse head was a collaboration with my son. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Arkham, they are nice large letter stamps and I haven't seen any like that. Perhaps I should look a little harder making stamps like that seems like it would be very tedious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGUNDOCTOR Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Das, I think I have a letter set that is 1/2" letters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Just looked and found some online. Even half inch. Guess they will have to wait till I can build up the tool buying money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ling Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 I think harbor freight has some larger ones, haven't tried them ever. They may have only been 3/8" though I think they were half. Littleblacksmith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 I'll take a look next time I'm there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ausfire Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Gotta try one of those corkscrew things. I'm guessing that mild is not going to handle the torque. So what are you guys using for stock? I'm thinking a high-tensile bolt or a shackle pin. I have some aircraft engine through-bolts that might do. And heat treated or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeroclick Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 ausfire - I used mild for the one i did and it seems to be working fine so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ausfire Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Thanks, Zero. Perhaps I'll make a mild steel one first to practise the method and see how it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustAnotherViking Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 I came across this earlier today. Higher carbon than mild, but not hardened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ausfire Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 Wow, that's a great video, Viking. Thanks for posting that. Mr Aspery makes things look so easy. I see he was using 4140 for the corkscrew, and he said that mild would be too soft. I always thought the screw part would be done by winding the hot metal around a thin former. Not so! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustAnotherViking Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 I attempted doing a corkscrew as you described by winding it around something.... it's now sitting buried in a pile of scrap with other failed experiments I'll have to try following the video myself and see if I can get any closer on a second attempt... likely just using mild as a practice piece as it's easier to work, and what I have on hand (other than some thick coil springs). Back to the topic at hand, the evolution of my own bottle opener attempts (the more successful ones anyway): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeroclick Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 With the corkscrew I did I used the technique Mark Asprey demonstrated however I made it a lot shorter, for the balance of the whole piece I thought if it was to long it would feel weird when using the other end. It still seems to grip in the cork nice and solidly I will have to try it out a few more times to see if it holds up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustAnotherViking Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 10 minutes ago, Zeroclick said: I will have to try it out a few more times to see if it holds up. Quality control is extremely important in these matters!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeroclick Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 JustAnotherViking - well I will just have to suffer for my art Gerald Boggs - That looks really cool I like the handle, what steel did you use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 On 1/9/2018 at 2:58 PM, littleblacksmith said: I think harbor freight has some larger ones, haven't tried them ever. They may have only been 3/8" though I think they were half. HF has three sizes of letter punches: 1/8", 1/4", and 3/8" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Olson Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 Connecting rods from a Subaru WRX. I wanted to forge the small end into the opener but this stuff would not forge. It would eventually start to crack and just fall apart. Low red heat was better then orange heat and would get me farther along into the process but it would still start cracking. These are forged rods according to a Subaru forum but acted like cast iron. So we just cut the opener in the end and textured. The one on the left was done with a spring fuller at a black heat. I could not belive how easliy it fullered. Wierd metal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 What did they end up sparking like when you cut them? I like the fullered one, it really pops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Olson Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 I like that one too. The pics don't do these justice. We did a spark test. There was 3 of us watching. I had a hard disk on a angle grinder and ground on an old file then the rod. I told the other 2 guys to look for spark length and how it explodes or not. I went back and forth between file and rod and we could not tell any difference. But then I dont have any practice judging sparks. There had to be something we were missing in the sparks because we fullered that one at black heat and it worked well. I was really looking forward to making a forged opener like I have done before which turned out great with other rods. Because the guy that brought the rods knows the owner of a Subaru performance shop and he has a box of rods he would give away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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