[TheForge] Re: corkscrew

[Mike Linn]

Typically augers are made from flat stock, and just twisted. Getting a 
piece of stock that is thin enough might be a problem. I've got some really 
THICK strapping material, I guess I'll have to give it a try.....

mike


At 04:48 PM 12/19/01 -0500, you wrote:


>Mike Spencer wrote:
> >
> > > Alternatively, make an auger-type corkscrew.  Not as elegant,
> > > perhaps, but they also work.
> >
><snip>
> >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
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