Olive corkscrew & bottle opener

[Chillicamper]

Some people were confused with the combined corkscrew/bottle stop that I made a while ago. The idea of leaving wine in a bottle once it was opened was unheard of.

So here's a slightly different version. A combined corkscrew and bottle opener. The kit came all the way from PSI in the USA via a friend and the wood is Olive with a microcrystalline wax finish. The wood was lovely to turn and the kit fitted together nicely. I'm still finding it a challenege and a bit time consuming frying to get both sides of the corkscrew handle to look fairly even....ish

 

[Jim]

I like this combination tool David, looks very good my friend ..

 

[yorkshireman]

That looks the business David

 

[Bill Mooney]

It looks very nice.

 

[Baldy]

Looking good..

 

[Penpal]

David looking at your result it has merit in that for display and sale it could be called a novelty item, adding interest to sales, as gifts to friends interesting. How strong is the corkscrew part mate will it stand up to a stubborn cork or bottle top? Love the Olive wood.

Peter.

 

[Chillicamper]

The corkscrew appears to be the same as the bottle-stop version and I've had no issue with the one I made. The central metal casting has 2 spurs that stick out at least 1 cm, so the tubes really need to be pressed quire hard on to the spurs to fully engage and leave no gap. This seems to make the overall t-bar capable of taking quite a pull on a stubborn cork with no flex of movement.

 

[Vic Perrin]

That's a great combo David

 

[donwatson]

A nice tool there David

 

[paulm]

That is very nice David, I like it a lot

 

[Doug]

I like that, would look right at home in a nice wine cabinet