Awesome Corkscrews

Blacksmith Mark Aspery walks us through the process of hand-forging a traditional corkscrew. He starts out with a rod of 3/8″ square chrome-molybdenum steel, which he hammers, stretches, bends, and twists into the final shape. Anyone got a good bottle of wine to test it on?

OTOTO makes a variety of playful kitchen accessories. The Vino works just like any other corkscrew, only it looks like a bat flapping its wings while it opens your wine bottles. We like to imagine it’s a vampire bat, and that isn’t red wine, but blood in the glasses.

The capable Armbar Cork from Gerber is a neat, pocket-sized multitool to handle all sorts of small tasks. It has a 2 ½” blade that opens with one hand, scissors, hammer, pry bar, foil cutter, and can/package opener, plus a corkscrew and bottle opener to wet your whistle. Comes in three colors.

Have a firefighter in the family? These bar tools from Halligan Bottle Openers make a great gift for our valiant first responders. The set includes a bottle opener that looks like a tiny Halligan pry bar, and a corkscrew that resembles a pickaxe. They come with red or black handles, and can be personalized for $10 extra.

This handy shark-shaped bar tool is ready to chomp down and pop open beer and soda bottles, and its head doubles as a corkscrew, so it opens wine bottles too. Available in brass, copper, or chrome finishes.