Creative Ideas for old bottlecaps

I've made some nice athletic cups from mine.

 

I collected every unique cap for a year of everything i drank (i did the quArter trick to take them off neat( and i put little circular magnets glued to them and covered my beer fridge with them.

 

I was camping in Mazatlan in the late 70s and a beer truck would come by once a day. You could by a case and there was a punch out checker board. We would use the bottle caps as the checkers.

 

Ive also seen people make glass top tables by cutting or buying a table with a slighty ditched central area and fill it with caps and put glass pane over it.

 

A dab of super glue and a small magnet on the underside = fridge magnet

 

Bar tops too, same concept.

 

I was wondering the same thing as I had saved a whole bunch of caps. I came across a place that was selling shadow boxes, I think they are called. I just cut a slot in the top big enough to drop caps in and made a display out of them.

 

I'm going to make magnets out of the originals, all my doubles or more are in jars. It actually looks pretty cool and is fun to go through once in a while.

 

Most of mine in glass jars and vases but I do glue some on extra thick poster board to hopefully habg up and display in my cave someday. MIght not have room as almost the Whole garage(walls and all) are covered in bottles, lol

 

The magnets from the bottom of the shower curtain fit bottle caps perfectly and you don't need glue and then you can switch them around if you have something new that was incredible or went on vacation somewhere fun that you want to remember via the bottle cap. Much cooler than standard tourist magnets.

 

You could buy one of these wall maps or make your own...

http://www.beercapmaps.com

 

My grand daughter keeps all my 3 Floyds bottle caps because they are pink. I have no idea what she does with them.

 

I like the beer cap maps, looks like a great conversation piece or an amazing addition to a man cave....Gotta get me one of those...

 

Make a checkers or chess set out of them

 

I added a magnet to mine and stuck them on the underside of the heat ductwork that runs along the ceiling of my basement man cave. I think I'm around 3,500 of them now, and have space for about 150-200 more and then i'm done.

 

I spray painted some 1" wide thin steel strips that I got at Home Depot and screwed them
into the walls above the bar and around the doorways. Picked up magnets in bulk and every time I get a new cap, up it goes.

 

What is this quarter trick you speak of? I have been collecting bottle caps for a little over a year now but I have bent most of the ones I taken off.

 

I place a quarter on top on the cap. Keeping it on. And when i go to remove the cap the quarter prevents the cap from bending in the center if you edge around with the opener until its open.

 

Also its not my invention. Another BA member told me. I cant remember who. Im sure its in this thread somewhere. I gotta give credit to them whoever it may be.