Dice bottle opener

Dice bottle opener

This will just be a quick "tutorial" on how I made two

"dice bottle opener", in this case, they ended up as

fathers day gifts.

And then a quick disclaimer before we start.
Don't do anything from this post if you
don't feel comfortable doing it, there is plenty of ways to
hurt yourself forging, so always use your eyes and head
and use proper safety equipment

Start off with some 12mm square bars, just a random length at 

this time.

Then I punched, drifted and fine-tuned the ring

of the opener itself. Then just punched the little 

"tab" that grabs the edge of the cap.

To make the dice shapes you want to make anything 

from 1 to s many as you like, in this case, 3. First,

mark them out with a sharpie or scribe and 

then used a cold chisel to mark along the lines.

Now I just cut the grooves deeper with my Dremel

rotary tool and a thin cut off disc. Just make sure to 

not go too far so you weaken the metal too much.

After this, I used a square file to file off the corners

where I cut the groves (so you don't end up with 

sharp edges when you twist the handle).

Now mark the eyes of the dice again with anything you got

remember that the sum of eyes on oposit 

sides should be 7 and that is how you make the 

dice "realistic/correct".

Now just heat up the steel twist the dice how you like them

and you are don. I finished them with a wire brush while the 

steel was still hot and then let them cool. Lastly a 

layer of spray lacquer.

This is how I gift wrapped them, just some hand folded 

cardboard boxes with some wood shavings made

with a plainer.

This post was a bit shorter and simpler than usual

I kind of messed up time scedule but Ill try to get

into it better for next week. Hope

you still had a good read and if 

you would like he to show how

 I made the gift boxes just lease 

a comment.