Looking for ideas/plans on a key chain bottle opener I can give to a friend on his upcoming birthday.

Thanks

Chris

Here is some i made, for non twist off beer bottles (Root beer that is:D)

Never made one of them but those are 2 VERY NICE samples of how they should be made. Good looking work ApprenticeMan. Looks like I will be trying one the next time I light up.

Thanks Thomas! Here is a few more. The little brass brushed one is a bottle opener keychain. All of these designs are made from 3/8"ths thick square, except for the one with the pineapple grenade twist which was made from
1/2" round bar, but could have easily just the same been made from the
3/8"ths. The one twist on that first one is a cube twist, the one twist on this one is a pineapple twist, using the same chiseling on all 4 corners and flats like a cube twist.

Here is one I just did for a friend today. It is about 6" overall. This is to sit on a bar, not be a keychain. I have done them in the past where the twisted section was only about 2", and those did work as key chains.

I made a few like you show above Apprentice Man where it is just bent over on the far side, but I found they are very hard to use. I like the fold over so you get that leverage in the middle of the cap. It makes a real difference.

I don't have a picture but I make one where the top is a dragon's head---fun in 1/4" sq stock and then the bottom doubles back to provide the lip to catch the edge of the bottle top

nice stuff sam, fredly

Nice job ApprenticeMan & FredlyFX !! Consider your designs stolen. Of course you know that we all have a responsibility to thoroughly test each & every bottle opener that we make to make sure the quality control is there! LOL

this is one I used to make years ago out of 3/16 or 1/4 by 1/2. pardon the crude drawing.

That is awesmoe JR i am gonna have to make a few of those!

FredlyFX, that looks nice, what size stock did you use? thanks.