3D Printed - Modular - Kitchen Utensils - System.
I got a little tired of the mess in one of my kitchen drawers, so I started 3D printing a modular "tool holder". The tools are all designed in Open SCAD, so basically consists of cylinders, and cubes.
I started with the holder for my mixer tools, as they always got tangled up. As that turned out to be a success, I continued with the rest of the kitchen tools I use most. Notice the prominent spot for cork-screw.
On the latter photo you can see the dove-tail connection between each module. The spool holder includes a little knife to cut the thread. Costs for the hole system - less than 1 euro in materials and hours and hours of fun designing each module.
Maybe the most used tool was a little tricky because of the curves.This is where it started. The most useful of them all
And the companion tool. A foil cutter and rubber cork.I got the set as a goodbye present from the last company I worked for in Denmark all the way back in 1998. It's of course Danish Design.
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Most of the tool holders has been created from simple shapes as cylinders and cubes. For the Garlic press I used an other method. I took a photo of the presser and imported it into Open-SCAD. Saved a lot of time to do it this way because of the odd shape.
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The spool holder was probably the most fun to make. This mainly because I wanted to include a knife to cut the thread. The knife is just a piece of steel from a can of some sort. Probably canned tomatoes. To create the knife blade I just made a small cut with my wire cutters and bend it a little to allow the threat to enter between the two sharp edged. |
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This holder is currently a bit of a failure. The fit is bad and the whiskers won't stay put. Luckily it's just one module - I can replace it with a new better version, or maybe for an other tool.
| These two holders I just made because I felt I wanted to. The both turned out much better than expected. |
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