divermike Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 Well since I have been so busy recently, I figured I better do some playing, and work on some techniques. I took a different tack on Mark Aspery's wizard head bottle opener, and this is what came out today. I had a chance to make some different tools for features, and tried them out. Funny how fast you forget how to do things, it felt like I had never made one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bush Bugger Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 Great work divermike ,great detail on the head and ears may be one day I will get to something that even looks like a bottle opener I cant even get the correct dia hole as yet it keeps spliting on me but as they say practice ,practice thanks for the pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sukellos Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 D-mike: Are you sure the face on that thing is what a fella ought to see as he's opening his fifth or sixth long neck? Seriously, nice work. My son tends bar in a local restaurant and I made this one for him. It fetches a lot of comment from customers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divermike Posted February 13, 2010 Author Share Posted February 13, 2010 BB, Leave more thickness than you think you'll need, thin it on the horn. Sukellos, love it, thanks guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beth Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 really like it - great bottle opener divermike - he looks insane!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Great bottle opener Mike, like Beth says he looks insane. Insane is a good thing . . . Well . . . Uh . . . Er. Seriously, wicked cool. Frosty the Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy k Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 Mike - I like the face stampings on yours. Here's a few bottle openers I made today. 1/2" sqaure stock - finished length 5" - JK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
double_edge2 Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 divermike, awesome!..and the others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Thompson Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 Jeremy, I like the hair styles, they look like little Elvises! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Aspery Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Mike, I like it! A bit more creative than my efforts. Well done. I'll have to give it a go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divermike Posted April 12, 2010 Author Share Posted April 12, 2010 Mark, thanks, you made my day! To tell the truth, I was gonna make a jester, but did not plan well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divermike Posted June 6, 2010 Author Share Posted June 6, 2010 well I figured since I was gonna be seeing Mark Aspery soon, I'd better get some practice time in, been really busy with a biiiig party for Mem day, 120 people showed, sooooo I decided to go try a new bottle opener out, now as you all know, when you don't do somethin for a while, it seems to have faded from your memory exactly how to do it right. In any event, this was the one that reminded me of all the wrong ways to do it, but I didn't have the heart to pitch it in the pile out back, I tested it last night on a Dos Equis, and it works, so even though it's a screw up, welll you know, time and sweat and all that, but you can see where I'm going with this design!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edge9001 Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 well I figured since I was gonna be seeing Mark Aspery soon, I'd better get some practice time in, been really busy with a biiiig party for Mem day, 120 people showed, sooooo I decided to go try a new bottle opener out, now as you all know, when you don't do somethin for a while, it seems to have faded from your memory exactly how to do it right. In any event, this was the one that reminded me of all the wrong ways to do it, but I didn't have the heart to pitch it in the pile out back, I tested it last night on a Dos Equis, and it works, so even though it's a screw up, welll you know, time and sweat and all that, but you can see where I'm going with this design!! look at it like this even large corporations like levi denim still sell some of their screw ups. they call them factory seconds. so...screw ups that are still functional...the steel just had different plans than you did. as you said it still opens a bottle so go with it. a famous sculpture once said he didn't make the form from marble he just chipped away all the stone that didn't belong on the finished piece. working metal can be the same. we just pouind the etra steel out of the way of out finished product. (if any of this sounds a little out there, forgive me, im a bit drunk tonight.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divermike Posted November 12, 2010 Author Share Posted November 12, 2010 so a lady saw my bottle opener at a recent demo and just flipped, so she asked me to make her 5!! she said she would give them as presents to her husband and his 5 hunting buddies. And we have a fundraiser auction comin up, so I figured I'd make a few, still not really good at it, I keep the one I got in Mark Aspery's class on my wall, to have something to shoot for, but all in all, they will bring in some tool money!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Hopfinger Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 I like the bottle openers....I am curious what the items made from the old/antique forks are? Are they bottle openers as well....maybe for twist-offs? Or are they just decorative? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marksnagel Posted November 13, 2010 Share Posted November 13, 2010 Divermike, Really nice job on the bottle opener. Great detail. You give me something to shoot for. Tomorrow morning I will try and make one. Charles Caleb Colton once said, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." Hopefully I can attempt to imitate your work. Mark<>< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divermike Posted November 13, 2010 Author Share Posted November 13, 2010 Marksnagel, if you get Mark Aspery's 1st book, it's in there, thats where I got it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divermike Posted November 13, 2010 Author Share Posted November 13, 2010 Marcus, they are Fork art, for kids!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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