Not sure of what you could use but make sure it is a bit wonky. Reason, if you make a good job she will tell all her friends & you will have dozens to do. .

Steve.

Not really an item that lends itself to metal. Garden centres are still open. Nip over to your local one and get a new handle. Or order one online. Do not forget your mask

regards

If you must do it at home how about a fabrication in three sections loctited together.

regards Martin

Personally I'd buy one or use a drawknife if I was making one from wood.

It looks like an ordinary garden fork to me, whatever did you expect. Iv'e replaced a few handles in my time, usually replacing the rivet with a nut and bolt. You usually have to whittle down the new ash handle to fit the fork. The Spear & Jackson fork and spade in my shed are stainless and the handles are either plastic or plastic coated metal.

Why not treat her to a new fork for Christmas, they also do a smaller size.

Edited By old mart on 20/11/2020 20:38:33

I think I would go to a farm supply, get the best but affordable model of finished shovel or fork you can find, take off the working end, whittle and sand to suit the candidate fork, fit, fasten on, done. Just my $0.02 worth.

Metal tube or solid metal handles on implements like shovels and forks are miserable to use in cold weather and unpleasant in hot weather. I've used lots doing odd jobs on farms when I was a kid, with metal handles bodged up by farmers as "improvements" over hickory or ash handles. Awful. I recommend wood for these.

Edited By Jeff Dayman on 20/11/2020 22:15:26

Iain, if you can't or don't want to buy an off-the-peg bed extension [we are talking about a woodturning lathe, presumably], can you rig up a live centre using some kind of improvised jig [involving a bench vice, perhaps] at the required distance from the tail end of the bed? It wouldn't have to be very accurate.

Why round. My wife broke her Spear and Jackson fork by trying to dig out a tree root !! Spear and Jackson to their credit replaced it free of charge and sent it all the way over here to France – Good British service.

I couldn't bear to throw away the broken fork and made a new ash handle, just left the section square and rounded where needed with a spoke shave. I love "MY" fork and prefer it to round handled forks.

Edited By Speedy Builder5 on 21/11/2020 11:46:39

Do not forget the two Ronnies sketch and end up with four Candles!