egnald
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Greetings from Nebraska!
It goes to prove that necessity is the mother of invention (or at least the mother of building something ad-hoc in the workshop). Dear wife was sticking a metal fork into the toaster yesterday to retrieve her stuck sourdough, so I went to work in the shop to build a safer alternative.
I cut the set of tongs from a 9-inch piece of Hickory scrap. Drilling with a Forstner, cutting on the bandsaw, sanding, sanding, and more sanding finally revealed a bonafide one-piece sourdough safety retrieval tool. I finished it with a couple of coats of Flax Seed oil. This is the same stuff that I use to re-season Cast Iron cookware. It is essentially a food grade Linseed Oil and can be found at GNC or other nutrition/supplement stores.
I think the tongs turned out pretty good considering they were Jerry built from a piece of scrap wood. I'll have to wait to see how well they hold up under daily use.
Regards,
Dave
It goes to prove that necessity is the mother of invention (or at least the mother of building something ad-hoc in the workshop). Dear wife was sticking a metal fork into the toaster yesterday to retrieve her stuck sourdough, so I went to work in the shop to build a safer alternative.
I cut the set of tongs from a 9-inch piece of Hickory scrap. Drilling with a Forstner, cutting on the bandsaw, sanding, sanding, and more sanding finally revealed a bonafide one-piece sourdough safety retrieval tool. I finished it with a couple of coats of Flax Seed oil. This is the same stuff that I use to re-season Cast Iron cookware. It is essentially a food grade Linseed Oil and can be found at GNC or other nutrition/supplement stores.
I think the tongs turned out pretty good considering they were Jerry built from a piece of scrap wood. I'll have to wait to see how well they hold up under daily use.
Regards,
Dave