Phil's memorial spoon

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We've just lost our wonderful old Greek neighbor Phil. In accordance with traditional Greek Orthodox practices, 40 days after death, a boiled wheat dish called koliva is served as a memorial to represent new life. My partner and I decided to create a stencil of Phil's initials from an old letter written by his father. I used paint.net to isolate the letters from a scanned image of the letter, added some blur to restore their shape, and then converted the simplified picture into an STL file using selva 3d. Selva 3d is my go-to program for converting text or clip art into printable STL files. You can find the app at http://app.selva3d.com. With Phil's initials in his father's handwriting now in a printable form, I used tinkercad to add a handle to the stencil so we could hold it from a safe distance from the food. My girlfriend pointed out that the stencil would make a great spoon. So I used tinkercad to add a bowl using the egg-shaped object and tweaked everything until it was usable after a few iterations. This spoon is not meant for heavy use; it's a disposable utensil designed for eating koliva once and possibly keeping as a memorial to Phil. If anyone wants to print a memorial spoon for the 40 days, Phil's 40th day is Wednesday, September 26, 2018. The spoon is here so that his family in Greece can print a copy if they like and keep it as a memorial to Phil. The P in Phil's initials is actually a stylized Phi, which is more noticeable in the original letter when you take a closer look. The A is technically a capital alpha, but since capital alpha and capital A appear identical, that's not particularly interesting.