My wife occasionally has problems with her joints. When they hurt and are swollen, she can barely hold a fork or spoon in her hand. There is "orthopedic" silverware with thicker handles that can be bought, but they're usually expensive and/or ugly. We wanted something that would benefit everyone by making a 3D-printable handle for widely used (and easily available) IKEA forks and spoons.
This is the result. I designed the fork in OpenSCAD so that the parameters could be customized if someone wants a thicker handle or has a different fork. The source code can be found on Github (https://github.com/coredump-ch/3d-designs/tree/master/fork_handle), licensed as CC BY-SA so that others can profit too.
The handle fits IKEA "Dragon" Forks / Spoons.
| fork-left.stl | 654.4KB | |
| fork-right.stl | 666.5KB | |
| fork.scad | 4.5KB | |
| fork.stl | 1.3MB |
