PROJECT OUTLINE: Cutlery/Utensil handle Y10
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Project Outline
This second project involves making handles for cutlery. This covers many materials and manufacturing techniques, from lamination to oven-forming and plastic memory. The students produce their own handles out of wood or plastic, and are given the opportunity to experiment within a wide range of finish, colour and form.

Resources & Practical Tips
Resources- Vices, drills and clamps (small ones are also useful), coping saws with metal cutting blades, hacksaws and scrap card/paper to wrap around plastic in vices.
Because this project has much scope for experimentation oven formers and strips heaters may be necessary but not essential.
The utensil can be cut using a hacksaw. It’s a good idea to flatten the end which will be fixed into the handle with a hammer so it can be sandwiched easily. It is also sometimes necessary to file the surfaces down a little to make it fit in the gap. Make sure that the handle is glued and held firmly in a vice before fixing the utensil.

Materials- Strips of various woods and plastics (120mm long by 40mm wide and varying thicknesses (for sandwiching a common utensil make middle strips 3mm thick. If it still doesn’t fit the thickness of the utensil then add thinner layers of material to the middle layer e.g. styrene or laminate. Alternatively file the surfaces of the utensil until it fits in the opening). Different glues e.g. PVA glue for wood, DCM liquid glue for styrene/acrylic, epoxy resin for gluing utensils in position and Tensol for acrylic to acrylic.

Some resources used for this projects can be found at Teaching Resources: http://www.tep.org.uk

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