Kitchen Tools - Stainless Steel Handles for Pastry Forks

This is part of my "Kitchen Tool" series for stainless steel tools I made for my wife and friends.

The following photos include all new stainless handles for small pastry forks. I made a series of 16 handles for the forks using 3/8" diameter 303 stainless steel rod. The 3/8" diameter stainless steel rods were reduced to 0.364 diameter before knurling the 21 pitch knurl (by the way I used the Android app Kurling Calculator to calculate the pre-knurling diameter). The 0.052" grooves were machined with a right-hand Nikcole Mini-systems tool holder and carbide inserts. Also, AR Warner makes T15 inserts for this tool holder and I have used these with success.

Pastry Forks

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Parts to Pastry Forks

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Kurling the 21 pitch into the 0.364 diameter 303 stainless steel rods

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Machining 0.052" wide grooves into the stainless steel handles

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Thank you for looking,

Paul Jones

5th kitchen tool so far, although I may have missed one or two.
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Jon,

Thank you for looking into my previous postings. I haven't posted the other new "kitchen tools" and will post these .

To be posted will be ones made from 303 stainless steel for "Drink Stirrers", "Pickle forks" and "Demitasse/Espresso Spoons". We use these all the time.

The stainless steel kitchen tools are greatly appreciated as gifts for our friends and family the around Christmas time (and why I posted the lathe spider chuck that was needed for this work http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/l...-spindle-65896 ).

Thank you,

Paul

Looking forward to it. Store-bought kitchen tools seem to be especially susceptible to gimmickry.

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Thanks Paul! Beautiful work and that little ferrule looks complicated. Care to share how you made it? Looking forward to your future kitchen tools shares! :hattip:

Beautiful work Paul, your handles set off the utensils, looks natural


Doug

PJs,

I can't take credit for the well-made little stainless steel ferrules. These were part of the original forks and I just removed the ceramic handle and replaced the ceramic handles with my 303 knurled stainless steel handles. The handles and ferrules are attached with the hi-temp 450 degree F "dishwasher-proof" Loctite 620.

Thank you for noticing the special construction details. I could not improve on the ferrule design and left it as-is.

Regards,

Paul Jones