Hello. I was unsure if to post this on /ck/ or /k/ but i'll do it here. I am doing a complimentary fork for my bowie knife i smithed. It'll use a bowie knife handle but smaller and with a fork on it.However, i am having trouble deciding what kind of fork it'll be, a two pronged one or three, what curvature on the prongs...Like, why are some forks straight, some curved, some slightly curved? What are the pros and cons of each? I just want a fork on a knife handle, but i have a teetering feeling forks are curved for a reason... but at the same time a flat fork would fit very nicely in a leather sheath (both knife and fork in sheath)....help!
what's your use case for the fork? are you just going to eat with it?
>>3004019How about food that you don't impale with your fork can rest in the depression?/thread
1. The proper past-tense is "smuth"2. "Some" curvature is the right amount. It will help you scoop things that don't lend themselves to skewering on the tines.3. It doesn't matter very much exactly because3A. you'll adapt to make use of whatever curvature it is, and3B. you can always adjust it later
>>3004043starting with a troll and following with actual advice makes a reader think the entire post is a troll
>>3004045I wasn't trolling, I was just being silly.Do you remember when people could be silly without it being "trolling"?Anyway you evidently saw through it, so others can too and decide for themselves if it sounds reasonable or not.Have a great day, Anonymous.
>>3004019Curvature helps to scrape the bowl than flat.Bent angle reduce raising elbow and arm and changing hand gesture and posture, and staying the prone way from the cutting knife.
Two tines is much easier to make look good and proportional, but works less well for general fork use than more. Theres a reason almost all silverware has 4 tines and you only really see two tines on carving sets where you just need to hold something in place. If you want to actually use it as a normal eating utensil regularly I'd go with 3, if it's just a companion piece to the knife you'll only pull out once in a while while slicing a ham or something two is fine. Curvature is similar, if you want to use it to eat pasta or rice or whatever the curve is important, otherwise whatever looks nicer.
>>3004170>>3004128>>3004043Thanks desu. I guess the adage of "if it works don't fix it" for utensils too.
>>3004238time to invent tines per inch. how small are the food particles will you be eating? the diameter of a pea? you want tines not wider than the smallest food you will eat
That's not a fork. It's a threek
>>30041702 prong forks not popular because people would accidentally poke their lips3 prong forks were rejected by religious europoors somewhere around Renaissance because it looked too much like devil's tridentSo they settled for 4, and now it just werks.>paraphrased from Google ai query. Not utensil historian
>>3006083weren't 4 prong forks equally being considered blasphemous as the 4 prongs plus one handle looked or evem purposefully mimiced 4 fingers and a thumb - so a hand that it was intended to replace and apparently god made hands for ppl to eat with?
>>3006130Forks in general had trouble sprading in Europe ouside of Italy although people didn't always eat with their hands and had utensils like spoons, knives and poking skewers(which function exactly like a fork) that people carried with them in a neat leather pouch attached to their belt.
small fork = food looks more bigger
