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This article profiles Kelsey Fairhurst, founder of Forks Plus, who designs and manufactures handcrafted stainless steel flatware with a "softline brutalist" aesthetic.
•She taught herself CNC machining and G-code programming to produce flatware, reducing counterboring time from 46 minutes to under 1 minute per piece
•Production involves laser cutting blanks, deburring, hydraulic pressing with custom dies, CNC counterboring, powder-coating, and polishing across multiple regional partners
•Kelsey uses Figma for marketing design, website layout, Instagram planning, and collaborative art direction with photographers
•She can produce up to 250 handles per day in her Brooklyn studio, with full production taking ~30 minutes per fork
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Business expansion plans include adding coffee spoons, serving utensils, and wholesaling acrylic forks in Korea
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