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Sorry, i'm taking the easy way out and asking those experienced ones - where can i get a replacement wooden shaft for my fork at reasonable price for reasonable quality?

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Do you have a local old-fashioned hardware shop? Failing that you can get them online from places like amazon.

If you had taken the time to tell us whereabouts you are.  .   .   Cheers,     Tony.

How many candles?

You'll get one on eBay.

Four  ;D

Four candles.  :) I was waiting for someone to do that. Genius

If it is an old fashioned fork you will find that the fork is attached to the shaft by a big rivot which will have to be cut off, when you take the old bit of shaft out use it for a template forthe new shaft, when I did mine last year I used a bolt to attach the shaft back to the fork, :)

When my grandson used mine as a crowbar I got a very good new shaft put on by an old fellow who works for Yates in Malton North Yorks. Well pleased with  it. ;D

Well.. I broke the shaft on my stainless steel fork last year and I've been trying ever since to get the broken bit thats left in the head out. I've knocked out the pin but it still won't budge, tried heating the head with a blowtorch but still won't budge. It has a welded seam so I can't prize it apart to loosen the broken shaft. I've now resorted to just looking at it hoping the wood will shrink and fall out itself  ::)  There must be a way, just havn't stumbled on it yet  ???

Smailes in Morpeth Northumberland replaced mine. Think it was £8 all in, about 3 years ago.

They are a proper old hardware store that sells practically EVERYTHING you need that you cannot get anywhere else!

Gen in NBL

Terrier, try drilling a few holes with a long reach drill to reduce the sideways 'stick' of the wood to the metal then bounce the fork (tines uppermost) up and down on a lump of wood.      Cheers,     Tony.

You can burn it out by shoving the thing in a bonfire.

Overheating stainless steel (as in a fire) will ruin the stainless qualities of the steel.    :)   Cheers,     Tony.