MIND OF A BLACK WOODWORKER IN ARIZONA

Making pepper mill on the lathe for the Tempe Arts Festival show. Robert, (my partner) and I started to make a couple pepper mill, yesterday, more like last night. We start at 2 pm, and left the shop at 9:30 pm. Hear is what we accomplished.               Donate to our Gallery Du Maurier Your help will allow me to run and create full to a passion of art through woodworking. Smaller 10" above. These two are a matching pair Mesquite 12" w/real turquoise   Splated maple w/dyed yellow. One of my fav's. Burmese figured pepper mills I tried to mount with tail stock.  Crush grind mechanism  Boring the main shaft with a colt 1-1/16" fostner bit Newly completed  salt and pepper mill for the Tempe Art Festival December 5th through to Dec. 7th 20014

The making of a Silk oak open hollow vessel. This piece started at about a good 9" log. I turned past the sap wood and the check/chacks    The process of hollowing. The tricky part here, is that this vessel is so small and about 11" deep, to the base. At this point I started to add colors, of dye. The trick here is to sand as much of the dye off as your patience will allow, you can always add more, as I do all the time, until I have something I like.

Crush Grind Mechanism  http://www.gofundme.com/Gallery-du-Maurier  Mounted blank Cone used to center blank after drilled with 1-5/8" then 1=9/16, and final shaft with 1-16th. I had to reform the outside for the center rest to help with 1/4" x 1/8" deep groove for the clip in place. drilling with 1-1/16" colt. I did cut grooves in the scoring blades. Which allow the cutter to cut and not score the wood. Cutting the wood is a cooler,, temperature, than scoring. Try it. I start by shaping the top, to see what portion may work Starting the shaping of the body Tenon is form, the size was not important, as long as it fits....I then drilled with 7/8" forstner, ( all bits where touch up on the grinder, after finding a stone small enough to fit the slot in the forstner.... More time spent.... I then had to use the newly purchase slot cutting tool from Crown.  Remounted on to jamb chuck to finish shaping the top, leaving the tail stock i

One of my favorites, a spalted maple pepper mill, decorated in multi colors of alcohol dye. It's about 10" tall. This piece was acquired from a woodworking, turning show at the Mesa Convent site here Mesa Arizona about a year ago. Its was fresh from Washington state. After I had part it from it's large block. It later warped and it was to small of a diameter to make it any taller. So decided to create a matching salt box.