[TheForge] Re: corkscrew

[Herman, Richard A]

Charles C. Wales wrote:

>From my years as a wine snob, and the advice I had from the "experts" is
>that the auger type is kinder to cork than the helical.  The helical is
>more apt to tear up a reluctant cork than the auger. As a blacksmith, I
>haven't a clue how to make the auger, with a hammer on the anvil, that
>is. The commercially available are probably cast or belted out with some
>enormous power hammer in one blow.
>Chuck

I don't know, I may have started to make one by accident last month when I
was
visiting a friend in Missouri.  He was showing me how to make a tenon using
a 
round swage, and I kept screwing it up by getting it off-center somehow in 
the swage just before I hit it with the treadle hammer.  Kept ending up with
a
flap hanging off the side of the tenon every time.  Now if I would have
tapered
the end of that tenon to a point and twisted it, I might end up with an
auger screw 
(looks sort of like a lag screw from some pictures I found).  Would that
work or 
am I way off base.

Rich Herman