Keith Palmer
12-27-2009, 6:14 PM
I was asked a while back to turn a salt shaker for a friend to match a peppermill he already had.
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He gave me a blank to turn the shaker out of, it was an experimental Baseball Bat from Weyerhaeuser. I traced and measured diameters and gave him the mill back. Finally 6 months later I got around to it:eek:. I had talked with him and he was in no rush. I turned it Christmas day on my new toy, the beads are not as pronounced as I would like though. As I was boring the center hole it only went about 1" and then I was cutting air:eek:. About 4 inches of the blank was hollow! Man did I luck out on where I cut the 2 ends to be. So I was worried I would cut into the cavity as I shaped the shaker.
I bought the top from Craftsupplies, but did not want to use the rubber bung. I know how overtime they can end up not fitting well, so I wanted to seal it up good. I decided to cut the top off of a water bottle I had and try epoxying it into the bottom and it worked quite well.
http://kapsworkshop.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/img_6625.jpghttp://kapsworkshop.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/img_6626.jpg
http://kapsworkshop.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/img_6628.jpg
http://kapsworkshop.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/img_5021.jpghttp://kapsworkshop.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/img_6618.jpg
He gave me a blank to turn the shaker out of, it was an experimental Baseball Bat from Weyerhaeuser. I traced and measured diameters and gave him the mill back. Finally 6 months later I got around to it:eek:. I had talked with him and he was in no rush. I turned it Christmas day on my new toy, the beads are not as pronounced as I would like though. As I was boring the center hole it only went about 1" and then I was cutting air:eek:. About 4 inches of the blank was hollow! Man did I luck out on where I cut the 2 ends to be. So I was worried I would cut into the cavity as I shaped the shaker.
I bought the top from Craftsupplies, but did not want to use the rubber bung. I know how overtime they can end up not fitting well, so I wanted to seal it up good. I decided to cut the top off of a water bottle I had and try epoxying it into the bottom and it worked quite well.
http://kapsworkshop.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/img_6625.jpghttp://kapsworkshop.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/img_6626.jpg
http://kapsworkshop.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/img_6628.jpg