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Craftsmanship => Accoutrements => Topic started by: PetahW on September 14, 2020, 10:06:25 PM

Title: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
Post by: PetahW on September 14, 2020, 10:06:25 PM

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I bought this vintage hollowware (hollow handle) salad fork/spoon set on fleabay for chump change & a couple of FFFg flintlock priming valves from TOTW


(https://i.imgur.com/6e039rwl.jpg)




I then cut the wooden fork/spoon off from their hollow handles.


(https://i.imgur.com/c2l8wZIl.jpg)



I made a small wooden plug to fit inside the open end of the handle(s), drilled it for the priming valve, then epoxied it in place.


(https://i.imgur.com/byIszmxl.jpg)


And, VIOLA ! !  -  A handy/compact flintlock pan priming tool !

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Title: Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
Post by: Bigsmoke on September 14, 2020, 10:34:05 PM

 :hairy

Title: Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
Post by: Ohio Joe on September 14, 2020, 10:34:41 PM

 :hairy

Title: Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
Post by: rollingb on September 14, 2020, 11:34:44 PM

Now THAT is a cool idea!  :hairy  :bow

Title: Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
Post by: PetahW on September 15, 2020, 12:57:03 PM

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Thanks for the kind sentiments, folks ! :toast


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Title: Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
Post by: BEAVERMAN on September 15, 2020, 05:00:21 PM

Nicely executed!

Title: Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
Post by: One Shot on September 15, 2020, 06:46:39 PM

Or use them for salt and pepper....

Title: Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
Post by: Oldetexian on September 15, 2020, 08:16:53 PM

Nicely thought out and even more nicely executed! Well done, sir!

Title: Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
Post by: PetahW on September 15, 2020, 08:44:55 PM

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Thanks again !   8)

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Title: Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
Post by: 10thumbs on September 17, 2020, 09:23:10 PM

 Now why didn't I think of that? :yessir:

Title: Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
Post by: RobD on September 18, 2020, 08:58:57 AM

ingenious!   :bl th up :bl th up

Title: Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
Post by: Winter Hawk on September 18, 2020, 02:53:08 PM

 :bl th up :bl th up :bl th up

~Kees~

Title: Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
Post by: Nutnfancy on September 19, 2020, 12:32:21 PM

Cool! That is what our fore fathers did, re-purposed, modified or built what they needed out of what they had.

Title: Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
Post by: Hank in WV on September 19, 2020, 05:23:01 PM

I wonder in the distant past if anyone ever took a powder primer and made a fork out of it? :Doh!

Title: Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
Post by: Ohio Joe on September 19, 2020, 07:47:37 PM

Quote from: Hank in WV on September 19, 2020, 05:23:01 PM

I wonder in the distant past if anyone ever took a powder primer and made a fork out of it? :Doh!

 :laffing  :bow :pray:

Title: Re: Another Use For A Salad Fork Set
Post by: Uncle Russ on September 20, 2020, 03:40:37 AM

  :Doh!       Hank, Hank, Hank,

 :lol sign :bow