heat resistant plastic casting - definitely NAC

[Kent McLean]

quattrohead at quattrohead.com wrote:
> Wood, not sure what kind wood be best !!!!
>> Can anyone recommend a product from which a replacement 
>> handle might be home fabricated by an aged dolt with ten thumbs?  It 
>> needs to be sufficiently heat resistant to permit its use in a kitchen oven.

I was thinking JB Weld, painted with wood stove/bbq grill paint, but
JB Weld only good to 350F.

This tells me wood might work:
<http://wiki.answers.com/Q/At_what_temperature_does_burn_wood>

If not, can you get a small block of aluminum and have it CNC machined?
Can you get a small block of aluminum and file the hell out of it?

-- 
Kent McLean
1990 V8 w/5-speed and other mods
1991 200 TQA #3, with mods
1999 A4 Avant, V6 Tiptronic
gone: '91 200 TQA x2, '94 100 S Avant, '89 200 TQ "Bad Puppy"