Popcorn Fork is Cheater Chopsticks

Step 5 Groove sticks to accept coil spring

Cut grooves in the sticks to accept the coil spring: Temporarily assemble the fork by putting the straightened wires of the spring clip through the side holes of the sticks, with the "painted faces" of the sticks away from each other. Mark the location where the coil spring touches each stick and disassemble the fork. Chuck the two sticks side-by-side in the vise with the butt ends sticking out out enough so a rounded groove can be cut across the marked sides of both sticks. The groove should not be deeper than half the diameter of the wire from which the spring clip is fashioned, as measured when including the plastic coating. The curve of the groove should be slightly larger than the curve of the coil spring's outside diameter. Temporarily reassemble the fork to ensure that the coil spring falls in the rounded grooves, and if it does not, disassemble the fork and re-shape the grooves. The dimensions of the spring clips are not consistent, so once the grooves are cut in a pair of sticks to fit a particular clip, that clip needs to be used with those sticks.