Peppermill w/o Industrial Looking Chrome Top

[Jason Swanson]

This is the peppermill that I had up in Racine, WI a few weeks back when I went to visit Ed and Dawn at exoticblanks. The adjustment knob is a chunk of leftover pen blank (Stripe Tease blank). The inspiration for making my own adjustment knobs came from a critique that Jacques Vesery and Bonnie Klein did on my peppermills at the 2009 Ohio River Valley Woodturners Symposium. They commented that I should really get rid of the "Industrial Looking Chrome Knob" to make the peppermills truely unique. This is what I came up with... Jason

 

[Craftdiggity]

Looks great. How does the adjustment knob attach? Or did you just cover the chrome ne?

Chris

 

[Jason Swanson]

Looks great. How does the adjustment knob attach? Or did you just cover the chrome ne?

Chris

I purchased some little brass inserts from MSC and epoxy them into a .250" hole in the pen blank. They are small knurled brass inserts used for plastic injection molding. I origionally tried making the knobs by epoxying the chrome knobs into a pen blank but they looked too bulky. The brass inserts are really small and give me more latitude over the overall shape. Jason

 

[jbostian]

Very nice! I would say that is definitely a unique peppermill.

Jamie

 

[Jim15]

That's about as awesome as it gets, great mill.

 

[neubee]

very, very nice looking peppermill. The knob is awesome.

 

[broitblat]

That does add a positive twist, but the others weren't exactly shabby, either.

 

[Mrs Rojo22]

Beautiful!

Robin

 

[bitshird]

Jeeez that's Beautiful.

 

[holmqer]

Fantastic job, every time we can devise a good looking diversion to the standard kit fare we raise the bar and make a really good impression.

 

[David Keller]

Very nice. Probably the nicest looking peppermill I've seen.

 

[ssajn]

Not bad for a beginner. :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

 

[GregMuller]

MSC?

Jason,
Can you tell me what is MSC?

 

[Gin N' Tonic]

Jason,
Can you tell me what is MSC?

Many years ago it was called Manhattan Supply company but as they grew they changed to MSC industrial supply co. You can get just about anything there.


http://www1.mscdirect.com/


BTW: Jason, That is one impressive pepper mill and one great idea. I've made a couple of pepper mills where I had filed down the nut, buried it in a piece of wood and carved it to look like a wing nut. It looked good but your design is much more sleek and attractive.

 

[Spiceman]

MSC insert nuts

I've looked on the MSC website but cannot find the threaded nut suitable for a Chef Speciality pepper mechanism. Could you please tell me the product code number?