Kitchen Tools - Stainless Steel Handles for Pastry Forks

[Paul Jones]

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





Parts to Pastry Forks



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