I made two magnetic bottle openers for Christmas. I originally planned on making a third, but the last one had a design that required a laser engraver. My dad bought one for $400 from a Chinese company, but the laser engraver needed some serious TLC. All the mirrors were gross and dirty and just a lot of things about it wasn't consumer ready. I think it'll be okay to use after a few months more of fiddling and fixing.
Anyway I saw these magnetic bottle openers online. These were mostly given as groomsmen presents, but I thought that they looked pretty cool and would make nice Christmas presents.
You'll need the following items to make the bottle opener for yourself:
a piece of wood
wood stain
clear wood finishes
paintbrush
neodymium magnets
nails
wall mounted bottle opener
superglue
I used a CNC milling machine to drill holes for the magnets to fit in, but I suspect that the typical household doesn't have one available for use. A drill press with a spade bit the same size as your magnets should work just fine.
Before I started making the openers, I made a tester bottle cap opener to see the magnet catching results.
Drill bit pathway on Linux CNC for drilling magnet holes |
Tester wood strip- many holes were made (front side and back too) |
Both of the wooden magnetic bottle openers. Looks really nice if I say so myself!!! |
IMAGE SOURCE: http://www.macsindustrial.com/style/beerBottle.jpg
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This is really impressive! The end product looks pretty good
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