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Jonas Peeler Repair

The blade on one of the Jonas vegetable peelers cracked, which suggests it’s the counterfeit version:

Jonas Peeler - cracked blade
Jonas Peeler – cracked blade

I grooved the metal pin running through the handle:

Jonas Peeler - shaft grooving
Jonas Peeler – shaft grooving

A brass tube from the Little Tray o’ Cutoffs and some epoxy should hold things together forevermore:

Jonas Peeler - epoxy
Jonas Peeler – epoxy

The rainbow colors come from an instantly aborted attempt to silver-solder the parts together. The fact that I even tried a stunt like that shows I’m definitely not the brightest bulb in the chandelier these days.