Davor Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkie Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Simple, functional, pleasing to the eye. Well done, Davor. Now, go pop the cap on a cold one for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hefty Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 On 2/4/2021 at 11:38 PM, blacksmith-450 said: Rock you !!! I love this! But it makes me think, I might have to try one where the hand is what opens the bottle. I don't know if I have the skills and finesse to pull it off but I'll keep it in mind for the future! cheers, Jono. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 That's a cool idea. You could forge a hand in a fist with the index finger extended but curled and the thumb barely across the fist the thumbnail would be the tab to pop the top. Hmmmm? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacLeod Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Childishly I agreed to make this one leading up to Christmas, in China it means good luck and Winston Churchill used the gesture for victory but sadly neither was the sentiment behind this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Some of us out of the UK know it too. Was it popular? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacLeod Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Hi Thomas hope you’re well. Yes, it was for someones son who was moving out. I ended up making a few and some inoffensive ones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Doing OK, temp 68F (20C) but winds gusting to 40mph (64 kph) and humidity down to 8% so high fire danger. Glad my forge is in a steel building! I'll have 2 weeks after my second of the Double Tap shots on St Patrick's Day and will be teaching a short "Intro to smithing Course up at the Uni that weekend. How's life where moisture abounds? Once you get the preform done there are a number of hand gestures you can go with---some of them clean...like the Vulcan "Live Long and Prosper". (We used to invert it for "Die Young and Rot") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacLeod Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Glad you got the jab yes, it’s raining! The horizontal kind. But the days are beginning to stretch and there’s a just hint of spring in the air! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Both my wife and I are high risk so we went for the jab as soon as we could. Our county is opening up more and we're ready to get back towards a new normal. We get high winds in the spring; we're inland, over 800 miles to a beach, We can have 80 mph winds in the spring and being dry; dust and sand are what blows sideways. Most of our rain is sporadic thunder storms during the summer; 9" of precipitation a year. Unfortunately our house is in the rain shadow of a mountain so we get less most years. New Mexico is about 1.3 times the size of the UK; and there are two more states between the Pacific Ocean and NM, Arizona and California. So I avoid seafood out here. (Grew up on the east coast of the USA where the fishing boats would dock at the end of the pier the seafood restaurants were on...) We do have sheep and cattle out here and a lot of game. There is even trout fishing up in the mountains; not even a creek down here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Deb and I are officially at the full potency date for our second arm stick so we're doing something we haven't in better than a year. We'd having dinner at Chepos!! I'm going to enjoy a #1 or taco salad and a pina colada. I'm excited, I've been eating my own cooking long enough for now. Alaska Governor, Dunleavy wrote an executive order Monday I think making vaccines available for anybody over 16 who wants one. The native villages and cities are fully vaccinated, want it or not, their communities their rules. Things are beginning to sneak back up on normal . . . ish. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 My friends in Juneau were just commenting on how thoroughly and well the vaccination has gone where they are. Ohio just opened up the wait list for 50-and-over, so Lisa and I are scheduled for our first shots this coming Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacLeod Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Great news about vaccinations going well. Enjoy your dinner Frosty. I think the use of cutlery in public will be something I’ll need to practice again. (Half joking) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 You use cutlery when eating in public? Things are different across the pond! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacksmith-450 Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Live long and prosper ! good job !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 Nicely done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur210 Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 On 3/14/2021 at 5:24 PM, blacksmith-450 said: Live long and prosper ! Peace and long life! I like it. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluerooster Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 A quickie, and it shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frazer Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 Made these today. All of them are keychains as well. As more and more glass bottles are replaced by cans, I've started adding a short wedge to the front of the ring so they can also be used for cans. I just use my fingernail, but there are a lot of people who don't want/like to. The idea actually came from a bartender. They open up a lot of cans in a night and this saves their nails the trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnut Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 Bartenders like those little pop top wedges for cans. I like the skull. I've been trying to work out how to do a Steal Your Face for a while. Pnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkhan Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 Leftovers from holiday sales. I always try to keep a selection of bottle openers available. I never know who is going to ask for one. A few $$ here and there never hurts. My second stick is tomorrow. The HABA smithies haven't been open for over a year. The members are getting restless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norrlander Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 I was asked to make a bottle opener as a birthday present, so came here looking for ideas. Thanks to Frazer, that was a fruitful search! Here's my version... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norrlander Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 ...and then my good lady told me that her friend likes skulls, but loves aliens much more. As a beginner, I think I'm learning a lot from these already. Seeing how things work, compared to what I planned. This one really highlighted the importance of figuring out the best sequence. For example, next time I'll shape the face/handle more before working on the opening. Those 'cheekbones' worked ok on the skull but aren't what I wanted for the alien. I also took this opportunity to practice heat treating. Although it's mild, I went through the motions as if I was tempering a blade and really enjoyed getting the colours to run. I live off-grid, so electric oven tempering isn't possible. Hence I need to learn more traditional methods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Ewert Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Looks good, an Area 51 bottle opener. Nice depiction of a gray. You might even want to make a big oval eye punch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norrlander Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Thanks Ted, of course I can mostly see the ways it fell short but I'm reasonably happy with it. Yes, part of this is figuring out what tools I want to add to the collection. Perhaps a teardrop punch could have enough uses to be worth making. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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