Rectangles? Squares? Pie slices? Who says dessert has to come in that shape? Why not triangles, circles, or even hexagons? Master of all things woodworking [Matthias Wandel] decided to solve this problem, and delved into a bit of metal working.
Using a strip of 26 gauge stainless steel, [Matthias] threw together some wood clamps in order to bend the metal into funky looking blade. He then put slits into a nice wooden handle and assembled the whole thing with a very slight positive curve, allowing you to roll the knife as you cut your confectionery.
As you can see in the following video, it works pretty well — and always, it’s a pleasure to see this man work.
Just don’t try to cut one of these LED filled cakes! Fun fact of the day, did you know [Matthias] used to work at Blackberry, or rather RIM at the time? He once designed a test jig using LEGO to solve an expensive problem they were having!
Amazing! I Just loved it!
Now how long will it take for someone to post a portal reference…?
Um… well you just did that, so I guess you know exactly how long it took.
Also: the cake knife is a lie.
The cake was NOT a lie, it was REAL.
Time to play some Settlers of Caketan.
Exactly what I thought. Need moar kinds of cake though!
Just frost them differently. You’re going to want to anyway.
Looks really good. The only improvement i could see woukd be to make it slightly longer. Then you wouldn’t have to rotate the knife for subsequent cuts, just move it laterally 1 face. This is of course dependant upon the size of your big utensils draw.
Or shorter one face so it fits the pan.
“I hope you brought enough for everybody!”
It’s “dessert”.
Looks a bit like a Desert. Oh maybe its a desert of dessert…
Perfect for honeycake.
Sure looks like a scrap of sheet metal roofing to me. As always, though, great job by Matthias.
It only needs some small modification to make it into a doughnut cutter.
My first though would’ve been to use a hexagonal mold, but Mathais’ tool saves time for big pieces!
Now this is something i want to make, that and the round side router jig he has!