Salt and Pepper Mills
There was an article in the Dec/Jan 13 issue of Woodcraft Magazine describing how to make salt and pepper mills using mechanisms purchased at, you guessed it, Woodcraft stores. This looked like something that would make nice gifts for Marilyn’s side of the family because they were invited to our house for a Christmas party. The idea was to set the mills on the table and then to give them to the people using them. The recipients were happy, I was happy, Marilyn was happy, so it was a hit!
The project was fun because I got to do some turning with hard maple for the salt mill and cherry for the pepper mill. The project went quite well although the mills didn’t match in shape perfectly, but they were close enough that no one noticed. My spindle turning improved as a result of making 8 mills (6 for gifts, 2 for us).
