On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 14:03:44 -0800 (PST), dsi1 wrote:

> On Sunday, February 7, 2021 at 9:40:22 AM UTC-10, Graham wrote:
>> On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 11:15:32 -0800, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/7/2021 11:10 AM, Graham wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 09:48:42 -0800, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2/7/2021 9:24 AM, Graham wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 09:13:41 -0800, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The salt thread has started and continued to be nutso.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can we do the same with pepper?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Interesting!
>>>>>> Lately, I've been making pepper mills and it has occurred to me that their
>>>>>> real place is in the kitchen, not on the formal dining table where their
>>>>>> use would be an insult to the cook.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I need to hear more on your construction project. What are your raw
>>>>> materials?
>>>>
>>>> I'm turning them on the lathe from maple mostly and one from maple and
>>>> Oregon myrtle. They are non traditional shapes and I intend to colour them
>>>> using an air-brush. Three more are planned, one of which will be in walnut.
>>>> I am also making the top piece a bit smaller than usual to suit women's
>>>> smaller hands. I see so many online that are the size of howitzer shells
>>>> that need hands the size of dinner plates to operate.
>>>>
>>>
>>> where are you getting the innards?
>> Some, made in Denmark, I bought years ago in the UK. Now I get them from
>> Lee Valley Tools:
>> http://tiny.cc/fh1ftz.
>> They stock a SS mechanism made in the US. Craft Supplies in Utah also sell
>> similar mechanisms.
>> https://tinyurl.com/mc6iqhav
>> I have one mechanism that was made in Italy. I wish I could find more as
>> the quality is superb.
>
> I knew a guy that turned pens and pepper mills. Nice stuff. I traded a Toyota Van Wagon for a pepper mill. It had a side crank and bevel gears to drive it - the mill not the Toyota.
> https://www.amazon.com/Woodturning-P.../dp/B009102184

A local tool supplier stocks mills like this but I just don't like the
style.