Getting ready for Market

[TellicoTurning]

next week. My Farmer's Market and Craft show starts on May 7th for the summer... Every Saturday from 0900 to 1400... I've put together some new pepper mills for the opening ...
Two of these a re solid wood, one is spalted wormy Pecan and the other is Black Walnut. The tall one is also solid wood, but it's from a board I've planed and glued together... I bought the board to do some cutting boards, but I decided I don't like to do them. The board is Angelim Pedra... a variety of wood similar to and part of the same family as Marble Wood.
The other three are also glue ups from boards, I've used Ash, Fiddle back Maple, Purple Heart and some scraps of Spectraply I had laying around... I'm pleased with the way they turned out.

Most of the mills are in the 7 1/2" to 9" range, but the Angelim Pedra is a full 13 inches tall. All are finished with Old Master's Sanding sealer and Minwax polyurethane, then buffed with carnuba wax.

 

[ed4copies]

Nice work, Chuck!

Even if they don't sell, the spectraply should bring visitors into your booth---half the challenge of shows!!

Good selling!
Ed

 

[1080Wayne]

Look great Chuck . My components sets have been aging since Christmas when I had an epoxy failure while showing one to a customer who had been waiting for a year . Had a customer yesterday tell me that he has given up on using a grinder because it bothers both his wrist and his shoulder . He bought a set of shakers for each hand instead .

The way I look at it , shakers take a bit less wood , components are a bit cheaper , fewer wrecks because of badly drilled holes , no need to worry about grain match or diameter match between top and body , less sanding and finishing problems on straight cylinders as compared to beads and coves .

They sell as functional pieces of art , although I have had people tell me they haven`t used them because they are too nice . Roughly equal to pen sales in my rural market . S&P collectors never buy them because they are too expensive .

 

[liljohn1368]

They look great Chuck.

 

[TellicoTurning]

Thanks guys, hopefully they will do as well as those I had last year.

 

[nava1uni]

Very nice.