It seems almost improper to expend words on an object so unadorned. Fashioned out of a standard thirteen millimetre hex stainless steel rod, this bottle opener was handcrafted by @_lindaneo and my father-in-law in the industrial suburbs of Zurich.
The bottle opener comes across as highly functional, yet effortlessly put together. The sturdy stainless steel shaft that is routinely used at my father-in-law’s machine manufacturing workshop provides a neat grip thanks to its hexagonal shape. Its angled tooth, chiselled a fifth way down its body, provides adequate leverage to pivot open a bottle cap. And the iron-chromium’s corrosion resistance will ensure that the hardware lasts a lifetime. In some ways, it seems oddly over-engineered, but somehow, a sense of no-frills utility prevails.
There are more obtainable openers out there in deceptively similar designs, often in more ornate colours. But this one, with my initials crookedly etched by hand on its surface, is piece-unique and wholly mine.
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