The bottle openers have gone through a few versions since I first read about them last year, and started making my own.
I have moved away from the magnet to hold it to the refrig because they weren't strong enough and folks wanted to put them other places. So scrap the magnetic handles and back to the lanyard.
I am still using scrape wood from the shop and in this assortment we have from left to right: paduk, paduk, paduk, yellow pine (left in the ACPOA dumpster), yellow pine, tiger maple, tiger maple, purple heart and koa.
The sander, I got from Bill in LaPorte, works great to get them into shape, but there is still about an hour of hand sanding involved.
I have been finishing with three coats of hand rubbed lacquer, using a paper grocery bags for the rub out and then a couple of coats of wax.
The stainless steel fender washer has worked well for prying the cap off, so that's a keeper.
But what to do with all of the magnets.
A suggestion from Chris on the SAR team was to bury them under the washer to hold the cap from dropping on to the ground. It works great! After popping the cap it stays in the recess until tapping it on the edge of the garbage, or a finger and then it pops out.
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