Golf Club Bottle Opener

[jeremy k]

By -  Jeremy Knippel

12/27/2017

 

This will show the steps of how I forged a golf club bottle opener.

Of course more details could have been done on this, but it's only ment to have a resemblance of a golf club.

Again, this is more of the "process of forging" information I'm posting.

 

Step 1 - Isolate 7/8" of 1/2"x1/2 square bar on 2 sides and start to taper away from end.

Step 2 - Square taper back further for the shaft of the club.

Step - 3 Round off the square taper and forge the lump on the end on the diamond,

so as to get a wider shape and forge to an offset tapered wedge.

This is the end view of the offset wedge shape for the head of the club.

Step - 4 File the head to shape and chisel in some groves on the face of the head.

Step - 5 Bend the head to the desired angle/pitch to the shaft.

End view of the head bent to shape.

Another view.

Step - 6  forge a step down to approximately 1/4" thick and punch for the start of the hole for the opener.

 I also slightly chiseled in a mark that the bar will get cut off at with a curved chisel.

Step - 7 Cut the remaining excess material off. 

Step - 8 Drift the slot to round.

Step - 9 Using the horn on the anvil forge the ring to desire size and shape.

Using a flat ended round punch, I set in the bottle cap tab.

Side view.

The finished golf club bottle opener.

[jeremy k]

I think I have everything above so its self explanatory .

[Daswulf]

Very cool opener Jeremy. Thanks for sharing. I know a bunch of people would like these. 

[Irondragon Forge ClayWorks]

I like it... very good indeed.

[Latticino]

Going to have to try one of those.  Thanks for the detailed step by step.