Cold and rain kept me all day in my workshop.
I did start the matting process. I will have to
touch up a bit tommorrow morning, though.
A large proportion of my time was spent on
cutting out side pieces for the butter knives,
and making them as flat as possible.
As per below, I think I now have something like
30 of them.
These are all fault free pieces.
My attention then sifted to the bean curd smasher.
With this I was being intuitively guided by my
experience to date.
With this first image above you can see clearly
side pieces at the handle end. Also, can you see that
the grooved end is a concave?
That of course means that the other side is a convex,
or part of a cylindrical surface. This is deliberate
so that this side of the thing can closely follow the
saucepan curvatures.
In any event this is far superior to previous
dissolvers. Longer, heavily built, more aethetic,
of dual tone, and all the rest of it...
Above is not just another of my dinosaurs. This came from
yesterday's lot of four. I am very happy. There is
not even a hint of gaps anywhere.
My tentative conclusion is that my newly aquired
clumping device does its job properly.
Here, it is the toast placer. One or two have been sold,
but then I wonder. I wonder if I can make them better.
I could add legs. I could do something more to make it
more attractive. Currently, it is just a piece of plate
with grooves. I am in a thinking mode...
This last image shows it is not loaded. I think it is
beautiful. You do not get any shears with this device,
mostly because it is solidly made from cast iron.
I think I will be moifying a few of my existing
models for better external appearance. That will
fetch a little more in return, I think.
I did start the matting process. I will have to
touch up a bit tommorrow morning, though.
A large proportion of my time was spent on
cutting out side pieces for the butter knives,
and making them as flat as possible.
As per below, I think I now have something like
30 of them.
These are all fault free pieces.
My attention then sifted to the bean curd smasher.
With this I was being intuitively guided by my
experience to date.
With this first image above you can see clearly
side pieces at the handle end. Also, can you see that
the grooved end is a concave?
That of course means that the other side is a convex,
or part of a cylindrical surface. This is deliberate
so that this side of the thing can closely follow the
saucepan curvatures.
In any event this is far superior to previous
dissolvers. Longer, heavily built, more aethetic,
of dual tone, and all the rest of it...
Above is not just another of my dinosaurs. This came from
yesterday's lot of four. I am very happy. There is
not even a hint of gaps anywhere.
My tentative conclusion is that my newly aquired
clumping device does its job properly.
Here, it is the toast placer. One or two have been sold,
but then I wonder. I wonder if I can make them better.
I could add legs. I could do something more to make it
more attractive. Currently, it is just a piece of plate
with grooves. I am in a thinking mode...
This last image shows it is not loaded. I think it is
beautiful. You do not get any shears with this device,
mostly because it is solidly made from cast iron.
I think I will be moifying a few of my existing
models for better external appearance. That will
fetch a little more in return, I think.
