Cherry Burl Mill set

[southernclay]

Here's a salt mill and peppermill set out of Cherry Burl. Made these for a friend's upcoming wedding present. The salt mill ended up just slightly taller but both are about 10". Finish is walnut oil (Dr Woodshop). These are my third and fourth mill so pretty pleased overall. Making the first is way more fun than the second one. The first is creative and the next copying :biggrin:Thought about using some filler but decided they looked better rustic and craggy. These were cut out of the same burl, I was able to get four mill blanks out of it but these two had the most burl out of the four blanks. Hope you like them, C&C is welcome and appreciated!

 

[Dan Masshardt]

Cool They're on my to do list

What hardware did you use?

 

[Dale Lynch]

I like the character in them.

 

[1080Wayne]

Rustic is the way to go !!

 

[southernclay]

Cool They're on my to do list

What hardware did you use?

Thanks Dan,
I got them from Exotics. Ed has a good tutorial on his instructions section for adjusting the bar length if needed. I mostly go off of CSUSA's instructions as that was the first set I did. Both the one's from Exotics and CSUSA were great quality.

 

[Davej_07]

Don't say one is longer as though it was an error......tell people that you left one a hair longer so you could tell which is salt and which is pepper....

Dave

 

[southernclay]

Don't say one is longer as though it was an error......tell people that you left one a hair longer so you could tell which is salt and which is pepper....

Dave

Haha, I actually told my wife that's what I was telling them and she had to stick to the story :biggrin:

 

[Brooks803]

Those are great Warren! You should demo making one at the next ATL meeting. I'd love to learn how to make one.

 

[southernclay]

Thanks man!

Hmmmmm....so the second one actually came off the chuck at one point...not violently but a demo may not be the safest for me to do just yet : )

I may could have a few blanks turned to different stages and discuss the steps if anyone would be interested in that. Safer at least.

Plus you or Kent could get a break. Y'all are gonna have to be put on payroll before long haha