Kitchen Tools - Stainless Steel Handles for Coffee Demitasse Spoons

[Paul Jones]

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

The following photos include all new stainless handles for demitasse spoons. The smaller-sized spoon is smaller than a teaspoon and is traditionally used for coffee drinks. I made a series of 12 handles for the spoons 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.



Dimensions for spoons



Parts to Spoons



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



Machining 0.052" wide grooves into the stainless steel handles



Thank you for looking,

Paul Jones