These corkscrews are among the 8,000 in Scott High's collection. The handle of the corkscrew shown at top left is a boar's tusk. The handle of the corkscrew at bottom left is the doorhandle of a ...

I love tools and have spent hours in hardware stores, flea markets, and antique shows contemplating their culture and evolution and respecting their singular purposes. The tool that I and my children ...

BACK WHEN we were having dinners at other people’s homes, any time I saw my host struggling with a less-than-desirable corkscrew, I felt duty-bound to provide an alternative. Take, for example, my ...

In 1974, two corkscrew connoisseurs, Bernard Watney and Timothy Diener, founded The International Correspondence of Corkscrew Addicts, a society with 50 members, all crazy about old corkscrews. I say ...