{"id":1316,"date":"2016-03-31T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodturningpens.com\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2016-03-31T04:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T08:00:43","slug":"making-six-pepper-and-salt-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodturningpens.com\/making-six-pepper-and-salt-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Six Pepper and Salt Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
As Christmas\/Hanukkah gifts for three very special people this year, I decided to commit to making each of them a set of pepper and salt mills, grinders if you will, from pieces of matching wood, or at least using wood that was the same species, for each individual mill. This meant that I was committing to making a total of six mills. In my entire wood turning experience prior to this, I had made a total of four mills, and each time I made those I had expert assistance and advice from my Dad, my guru and teacher of all things wood turning.<\/p>\n
I only made the decision to try this experiment because while looking through the Louisville, Kentucky Woodcraft<\/a> store, I noticed that they were selling pre-drilled mill blanks<\/a> in 12″ and 8″ sizes in woods that included Black Walnut<\/a>, Cherry, and Sycamore. I bought a 12″ and an 8″ blank in each of the three woods, at a cost ranging from $39.99 for a 12″ Black Walnut down to $17.99 for the 8″ Cherry and Sycamore blanks. I carried the blanks home with me and added the making of the finished mills to my fairly extensive Christmas lathe work list.<\/p>\n