I open a bottle of wine for dinner most nights; a corkscrew gets plenty of work here. The Magnum design is hefty and impressively functional. This is my third Magnum corkscrew -- I started with a simple bone handled model; then just had to have one with mammoth molar handle scales and guilloche file work on the plates; and now this ironwood handled model with a beautiful Damascus lever.

It's even more impressive in real life than in the photos... the silver studs really pop against the deep dark ironwood; and the wood grain is more prominent than it appeared on my screen. If I had one tiny quibble, I would wish that the plates had decorative file work on them similar to the plates on my mammoth molar Magnum. Then again, that might just be overkill.

This isn't inexpensive, but in a world where a bottle of grand cru Burgundy can run well into four figures, it's not out of line to spend less than that on a corkscrew that will be used hundreds of times -- and be a pleasure to use every single time.