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My most challenging pepper mill

The other night at our local woodturning club’s monthly meeting I was asked about what was my most challenging pepper mill design to turn. And also if I ever made the mistake of turning through and into the hole that I had drilled to hold the pepper corns. My answer was that I had indeed made the …

Lighthouse Grinders

I thought that I would share with you a recent set of spice grinders that I made. These are Maple Burl spice grinders and are my version of a Maine lighthouse. I make up about 10 sets of these per year. I probably could make more but the Maple Burl starts out three inches thick …

Ryanne’s learning to shoot product shots.

It’s Ryanne (our oldest daughter) and I alone here today. Her little sister has gone off for the day to play at a friends house. Ryanne likes photography and I needed to take some pictures of some mills for the site so I’ve been teaching her how I take product shots and how to use Photoshop. This …