A quick project to build basic skills, and some things to try and ramp it up. My normal advice on bottle-openers is "don't bother". But that's not exactly helpful.

I will reveal to the secrets of the ancient masters, as they pertain to bottle-openers. For decades, beginning blacksmiths wasted their time on nails, until someone came up with the hand-forged bottle opener.

There's not really a traditional way to forge one, since they're a post-industrial tool for a post-industrial job. Forging one by hand is like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer - the techniques of the blacksmith are far too powerful to squander on trinkets. It is very difficult to make people to appreciate how your twisted iron poppatoppa is intrinsically better than the free one that came with their box of Corona.

But keep trying.

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