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

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.

My first crush grind peppermill, or salt. I must say, the I usually start something new is. I start by doing a little refresher course in searching the web for, one inspiration, and two method. What I found was that there are several sizes differences, not in that it's different from the traditional pepper grinders. There seems not to have a standard unlike the traditional pepper grinders, but each manufacturer has subtle changes in boring sizes. I had also purchased two sightly different grinder mechanisms, and they gave you two different  methods of boring whole size and locations. Head twister, so I just got out my vernier calipers, and double checked each portion for a workable size. I then got to the point I had stop. I did not own a drill bit or forstner bit in 1-9/16, nor did I have a tool for the clip in place portion that did want to use. The alternative is to glue the grinder mechanism in place, (messy). So at the last minute I ran down to my locale Woodcraft Store, just ...