Photographer turns inventor

SUPERIOR ? Jerry Avey admits he?s not a kitchen guy. In fact, the photographer and his wife, Donna, have run Avey Portrait Studios in Boulder for 29 years. Still, the couple?s lifelong dream is to open a restaurant.

Two years ago Avey was standing in his Superior kitchen cutting a melon. After he cut several pieces, he began slicing off the rind by bringing the blade toward his hand. As a hopeful restaurateur, he worried about the possibility of injury as well as the amount of time required to cut a melon.

Then he had a revelation.

?I think the idea came to…