Fred Sanford to the Rescue
February 12th, 2010Pizza Tools for Cheap
Here is my new pizza peel.
Sweet, right? Took five minutes on the table saw, plus a little work with the bench grinder and angle grinder. Now I can lift a 12″ x 9″ pizza out of the pan with minimal risk of a disaster.
A few minutes ago, it was a 16″ pizza pan. If I felt like it, I could make a handle for it in about fifteen minutes and then use the peel from now on. Maybe I’ll do that. It will work just as well as the peels I can buy, and the total cost is under four bucks.
Man, I love having power tools.
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The Workmate was essential to getting the bend right without a press brake. Is there anything it can’t do?
February 12th, 2010 at 8:24 PM
Workmate? Are you yanking Og’s chain again?
February 13th, 2010 at 2:07 AM
somewhere og is shuddering…
February 13th, 2010 at 10:04 AM
A Press brake is not what you want. It’s a production tool, that’s used for making the same bend, over and over again.
Now a small Box and Pan brake, like the 24″ one they sell at “Horror Fright” for $120 bucks.. That’s what you want.
February 13th, 2010 at 10:24 AM
Lots of the places that sell smaller ones call them “press brakes.” Whether this is correct, I do not know.
February 14th, 2010 at 11:33 AM
Well, they’re wrong. A box and pan brake works by folding the metal over a sharp edge. A press brake works by pressing the sheetmetal into a V die, bending it into shape.
Wikipedia has a decent entry on them.