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Wooden kitchen tongs — multi-tool bake-off

A faithful, printable model of wooden kitchen tongs — two arms plus a rubber ring — and, at the same time, a multi-tool bake-off: the same object built three ways to compare toolchains.
v4.8bake-off variant b
OpenSCAD + BOSL2) — WINNER. arm_printable is the ship arm; arm_organic and arm_pin are ALTERNATIVES of it, never built together.
Field note TANG + KLEM — the lookbook →

Tongs closed — arm_printable x2 + TPU band (source part=asm_closed)3.5 MB

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composed of: arm printable, ring tpu

Ship arm — printable, flat inner face (print frame)1.6 MB

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ALTERNATIVE arm — organic, full elliptical sections (print frame)2.0 MB

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ALTERNATIVE arm — v4.8 pin-hinge trial (print frame)1.6 MB

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Hinge pin — pairs with the pin-hinge arm only (print frame)12 KB

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TPU band (print frame — torus axis along Y)400 KB

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Coupon — joint crop, 70 mm butt (print frame)612 KB

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Coupon — joint crop with the pin channel (print frame)612 KB

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