Bre Pettis | I Make Things
Categories: Video, Workshop Kitchen

My pal Diana Eng showed up with a bottle of wine, but know corkscrew. How do you open a bottle of wine in the workshop? With a drill, screw, vise-grip, and a broom-handle! Yay for levers!

I normally embed the blip.tv flash video, but this video is a little fussy, I had it set to 60 frames a second which makes it record at 320×240 and so you get the youtube version of it. I actually upload all my videos to my youtube channel so folks can find them there. You can check them out and subscribe if you spend any time there!

3 Comments

November 15th, 2008

Oh Leola would love this..will love this:)

Kendrick Goss

November 15th, 2008

Ah, Bre. Levers are great, but some virtue can be found in applying the simplest solution when possible. The assumption with a screw and drill approach is that the cork must come OUT. In fact, applying force to the top of the cork with your fingers will drop it right into the bottle. Problem solved. This DOES obligate one to drink the whole bottle, but this could hardly be considered a drawback. ‘Love yer work! Keep it up.

Kimo

November 15th, 2008

Things are cool :)
Crystallize some sugar around led, that would make a cool thing.

ps. “but know corkscrew”… ouch ;)

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