Reaching 3,000 by year's end seems unlikely, but am within striking distance of 2,500. Received some great caps from Andrew and Kathy, found a handful of different caps at a store around the corner, and sheepishly admit to buying a few older caps from eBay.

Also bought an arbor press, which in combination with the bottle cap press, can unbend previously damaged bottle caps. About fifty bottle caps that were previously too damaged to add to the collection were unbent using the arbor press.