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

[Jon]

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

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[Paul Jones]

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

[Jon]

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

[DIYer]

Thanks Paul Jones! We've added your Pastry Fork Handles to our Culinary category,
as well as to your builder page: Paul Jones's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

Pastry Fork Handles by Paul Jones

tags: knurling

[PJs]

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!

[rossbotics]

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


Doug

[Paul Jones]

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