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Fork Hangers
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While browsing in a gift shop in Canada I noticed several old fashioned dinner forks attached to a piece of driftwood board, formed to make a rustic but neat looking row of coat hooks.
The thing is, I couldn't see how the forks where attached to the wood, as there was no visible screw holes showing and I didn't like to take it off the wall just in case I couldn't get it back.
Anyway I got to thinking I could make one at home easily enough, as I have some similar old silver plaited spoons.
The fork handles (no not four candles) had been bent round to form the hooks and I still can't for the life of me figure out how those forks where attached to the wood ?
I anyone can solve the forking mystery, would be most grateful.
The thing is, I couldn't see how the forks where attached to the wood, as there was no visible screw holes showing and I didn't like to take it off the wall just in case I couldn't get it back.
Anyway I got to thinking I could make one at home easily enough, as I have some similar old silver plaited spoons.
The fork handles (no not four candles) had been bent round to form the hooks and I still can't for the life of me figure out how those forks where attached to the wood ?
I anyone can solve the forking mystery, would be most grateful.
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If you can get a local jeweler to weld a bolt ( long enough to go through a piece of wood) onto the inside bowl of each spoon you could then drill through & apply a nut to each bolt at the back (
09:43 Thu 25th Jul 2013
I have got hooks hung on a door using command strips.
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Chippers, what would look really cool would be to embed the tines (spikey bits) into the timber, to give that "recently stabbed" look.
Take an unbent fork and hammer the handle end to make the tines mark the wood.
Drill small holes (smaller then the tines) (maybe 1.5 to 2mm drill bit)
If you're lucky, you may be able to hammer the points over on the back. That'll keep them solid.
You'll need to experiment.
Take an unbent fork and hammer the handle end to make the tines mark the wood.
Drill small holes (smaller then the tines) (maybe 1.5 to 2mm drill bit)
If you're lucky, you may be able to hammer the points over on the back. That'll keep them solid.
You'll need to experiment.
Ha ^^^.......... all very good, until I read the question again ...... you have spoons!
I think I would drill a 4mm hole in the bowl of the spoon and screw it on with a round-headed chrome screw.
Or... a big blob of Araldite on the back of the bowl. Both surfaces would have to be thoroughly cleaned though.
I think I would drill a 4mm hole in the bowl of the spoon and screw it on with a round-headed chrome screw.
Or... a big blob of Araldite on the back of the bowl. Both surfaces would have to be thoroughly cleaned though.
Seems a strange idea to me. And forks ? Surely one could scratch oneself on the prongs unless one was paying 100% attention every time one hung their coat up ? I think it's probably best to melt the cutlery down and mould some designed coat hooks from them instead. Maybe if recycled the council would do that with them.
