May 4, 20179 yr Nice work, BG. Good that you left the handle end untouched. Real recycling. I've done a few using similar stuff. Hard yakka with that steel.
May 4, 20179 yr 4 hours ago, ausfire said: Hard yakka with that steel. Sorry, what's that in English?
May 4, 20179 yr I've been making these quite a bit. I have a commission set out at a local package store.
May 4, 20179 yr 8 hours ago, JHCC said: Sorry, what's that in English? From an Australian idiom dictionary: yakka Work, strenuous labour. The word is used especially in the phrase hard yakka. Yakka first occurs in the 1840s as a verb meaning ‘to work’, and it derives from yaga meaning ‘work’ in the Yagara language of the Brisbane region. Yakka found its way into nineteenth-century Australian pidgin, and then passed into Australian English. Spelling variants such as yakker and yacker are also found. 1892 Bulletin (Sydney) 19 November: The stevedore must yacker for the bit he gets to eat. 2004 Townsville Bulletin 14 July: We marched out through the thigh-deep mud carrying wallaby jacks, jungle matting lent by the army and railway sleepers. It was hard yakka.
May 5, 20179 yr 15 hours ago, littleblacksmith said: nice opener EJ. I'm just surprised Aus that its actually a word! Littleblacksmith I've stopped being surprised what seemingly random accretion of letters folk down under use for words. Frosty The Lucky.
May 6, 20179 yr 2 hours ago, JHCC said: The upper one in the top photo looks more like a hammer…. No, you smash it into the bottle- It opens it plenty fine, but has the tendency to spill a little!
May 18, 20179 yr A search for "bottle openers" found threads in the following sections: Blacksmithing, General Discussion, Member Projects, and Critique my work. Sometimes when you think you hit the mother lode, you need to keep digging. The information is on the site, you just have to find it. Show me yourBottle Openers ! EnoughBottle Openers Reply to Show me yourbottle openers Short video of my process makingbottle openers S hook andbottle openers Bottle openers - from Recycled Material Hmmmbottle openers Three newbottle openers My PRbottle openers ... bottle openers Morebottle openers Bottle openers A fewbottle openers WizardBottle openers TwoBottle Openers , and a pair of Scrolling Tongs anvil bridge,bottle openers and wizard head hook Leafybottle openers Bottle openers from railway spikes Bottle openers threebottle openers ...
May 28, 20179 yr Made this one out of an old mining rail spike. I find them all the time when metal detecting.
June 7, 20179 yr Wow that's really cool! May I ask how you did the hat. nvm just saw your other post on page 43
June 10, 20179 yr The opener on top was a gift for the outgoing president of the college where I work. It's made from a piece of rebar from the construction of our new hotel, the last big project of his tenure. He was thrilled.
June 10, 20179 yr Was this the college with the hospitality program near a horse track? I think I met someone who came here on a SACS audit a few years ago.
June 10, 20179 yr Well LOOKY THERE a good use for rebar other than concrete! Well done John. Frosty The Lucky.
June 10, 20179 yr 3 hours ago, John McPherson said: Was this the college with the hospitality program near a horse track? Nope. 2 hours ago, Frosty said: Well done John. Thanks, Jerry!
July 1, 20179 yr Two more bottle openers from my attempt to make 25 for a camping trip. One is made from a36 square bar and the other is made from a chunk of concrete tie rod (a friend gave me a bunch of cut offs). The tie rod sparked weird...maybe orangish, with no sign of carbon but it was as tough a piece of steel as I've encountered. The stuff resisted punching, slitting and general mashing unless is was yellow to bright red. Both are left purposely to look rough and all, but there are flaws I didn't intend that I learned a lot from.
July 2, 20179 yr 4 hours ago, Thief_Of_Navarre said: Somewhat reassuring tie rods are tough as heck! My first inclination was to say, "You have no idea!" But I have no idea what tough metals you have worked with. Even so, it is some seriously cranky metal to work with. It defied my punches.
July 3, 20179 yr 11 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: orangish, no sparklers, tough as heck---sound like a high alloy steel! Thanks to my education here at IFI that's what I surmised. Because of the usual trade secret/ASTM nonsense I couldn't find one reference to what those rods are actually made from. Suffice it to say I have a pile of them with no current purpose. I was, of course, asked to make a knife with it...but we all know there are myriad reasons that isn't happening...my lack of knife making skill being first.
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.