Griswold 885/886 Waffle Iron

[SteveB]

I couldn’t find these in the BB, are they in the RB? Mine hasn’t arrived yet. I know the base is incorrect but did these ever come with handles like this?

 

[Doug D.]

RB pg. 159. The handles are not original. Somewhere along the line the paddles parted ways with their coil handles.

 

[SteveB]

Thanks Doug . Thats what I suspected.

 

[GTurner]

Those are some pretty handles. I would think that they would get cumbersome to use though.

 

[SteveB]

That’s kind of what had me confused on it. The handles are pretty nice and have been on it awhile, but they are extremely long.

It’s definitely a patched together set, I have no idea who made the base but It certainly doesn’t go with that waffle Iron.

 

[D_Madden]

https://imgur.com/gallery/cwp5L

mine has short little black wooden handles (which I didn't seem to take any pics of)... but they are only about 4 inches long and have a shape to them.. .not just straight pieces of wood... and my base is the 975 base.

 

[Doug D.]

Catalogs from the early 1910s show them all with the stubby, unturned, black painted wood dowel handles. The turned ones likely fall between them and the coiled. By the mid-1920s, they're all shown with the coil handles.

 

[Rodney Walker]

Those handles look suspiciously like they're from a chair.

 

[Chuck D]

Those handles look suspiciously like they're from a chair.

That's exactly what I was thinking. Look at the wear on the ends of the "handles". Now that's some fine redneck engineering!