Pepper Mills 1 and 2

[Scott Hackler]

While visiting Jim Adkins, I had him demo me the techniques to drill and chuck up pepper mills. Theses are the first two. The natural colored one was the one I made while at Jim's and I made the second one at home. Both are crush grind and approximately 10" tall. C & C welcome

#1 is quilted maple and WOP


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#2 is quilted maple with black, red, yellow dye and WOP


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[Steve bellinger]

Scott with a teacher like that, i can see why these turned out as good as any i've seen.

[Jim Burr]

Great shapes Scott!! Not sure about the base on #2 though...is there a foot?

[Scott Hackler]

Yeah I left a foot on the second one and am so so on that. Mostly it was a hmmm now what moment. I was using the foot as a tenon!

[Brian Kent]

I like these shapes and the fantastic wood.

[Kathy Marshall]

Very cool Scott! Nice shapes, great looking wood and cool dye job on #2.

[Doug W Swanson]

Beautiful, Scott. Love the color on #2...

[Jerry Marcantel]

Nice mills, Scott. I hate to plagerize, but, "Love the colors on #2".... Were they thin enough? Lol...... Jerry (in Tucson)

[bob svoboda]

Very nice, unique shapes. Love the crush grind mechanisms. Care to comment on drilling/chucking methods?

[Scott Hackler]

Bob, We used the instructions available on Craftsupplies web site with a few additions. First we add a tenon that is about 1/8" larger than the top part of the crush grind mech, on the top section and open out the bottom section of wood to accept the tenon. We also made several jam chucks to fit in the ends after drilling.

[bob svoboda]

Thanks Scott-appreciated.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Really those are beauties Scott. I really like the form on both.