Head over to Etsy to see if we have any of these bottle openers for sale at 4HappyHearts. If you don’t see any, that means we sold out but will most likely be making more so check back later.
The very few times out of the year that I actually get to pull out the coal forge and pound on some red-hot metal, it is almost always to practice something new, whether it be drawing out metal to get a nice taper, scrolling to make a spiral, or just to practice other different techniques that I have read about or watched on YouTube.
There are very few things that I have made duplicates of from my blacksmithing projects. These four bottle openers were fairly quick and easy to make and allowed for good practice of tapering.
The one challenge that I have found with tapering is that if not done correctly, the metal wants to fold over itself on the end, creating something like an indent on the end. This creates an ugly piece of work.
Each of these bottle openers were made from #3 rebar (⅜” diameter) and were cut down to about 6 inch long pieces. They were heated in a coal forge and then tapered with a hammer and anvil. Once the ends were tapered, one end was curled over the edge of the anvil and finished up with careful hammer strikes to get the curl. The gap is approximately the thickness of a bottle cap.
These bottle openers work so great that I had to make one for myself and is one of the most used bottle openers in the kitchen.
