Pepper Grinder Gifts

[dai sensei]

I have promised various salt/pepper grinders as gifts:

The first pair is a thank you to a macadamia farmer that gave me heaps of Red Cedar, Crows Ash and Camphor Laurel with a single small trunk of Macadamia. These are from some of their Red Cedar and Macadamia and 270mm high. Unfortunately the Red Cedar cracked badly internally in the dehydrator when I dried it before I left on the big trip :(, so I filled them up with coffee grinds to give it the tiger look :rolleyes:. The wife has arthritis in her hands, so I made the balls slightly smaller than my normal size to help.

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The second pair is a thank you to another macadamia farmer that gave me heaps of Red Cedar and Red Ash (although club got most of it). Unfortunately the piece of Red Cedar I had from his farm shrunk too much in the dehydrator to use :~, so made these from a nice spalted piece of his Red Ash, and Macadamia from the other farmer. These too are 270mm high.

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This set is a wedding present for my nephew, from Banksia 200mm high and spalted Red Ash 210mm high. I had some end grain tear out (chunk) on the Banksia, so trimmed a bit off the bottom, but then forgot to do the same off the Red Ash :doh:

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These are singles, some Avacado 210mm high as a house warming gift and my original cast Tas Myrtle Burl with blood red and red russet pearlex resins 320mm high. I made this some time ago, but dropped it at a demo a while back onto a concrete slab :o where it broke into numerous pieces :doh:. I glued it up again a while back but didn't refinish it till today.

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All finished with Hard Shellac on the inside and gloss NCL on the outside :2tsup:.

Cheers

[Christos]

Keep grinding away.


I know I know you have heard that before. Well great minds think alike and another one that you have heard.


Then how come you are not saying this?


Nicely done on the grinders. :2tsup:

[gawdelpus]

A worthy Bunch that lot Neil, a lot of skill and time in those, Interesting to see how the Nitro stands up under working conditions :) Something that I am sure the recipients will appreciate for many years to come . Cheers ~ John :2tsup::2tsup::2tsup:

[Willy Nelson]

Neil
Great looking grinders, but I did some trend analysis of your thread and noticed a worrying trend.

Essentially, you experienced mistakes, dropped them, had cracks, forgot to do something??

I recommend the following
1. Post notes to remind you.
2. The dehumidifier. Get rid of it, caused a few problems for you. Or, make beef jerky, I can give you a recipe.
3. Rubber matting underfoot.

All this is of course, TIC or VTIC or should I put in an emoticon like a winking face?

Sincerely

Willy
Jarrahland

[Christos]

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All this is of course, TIC or VTIC or should I put in an emoticon like a winking face?

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I vote for the winking face, :;

[brendan stemp]

nice work Neil

[ian thorn]

I really like the selection of woods you have used very nice grinders well finished.

Ian

[smiife]

Hi neal,
Nice looking grinders , they should be very happy
With those well done
Cheers smiife:2tsup:

[dai sensei]

..
1. Post notes to remind you. but then i forget where they are :rolleyes:
2. The dehumidifier. Get rid of it, caused a few problems for you. Or, make beef jerky, i can give you a recipe. yes, doesn't suit a lot of timbers, but the red ash/camphor/macadamia/crows ash/blackbean i did at the same time went well :2tsup:
3. Rubber matting underfoot. need a big matt for every where i go :-
..

:u :;

[chuck1]

what great work! which one is the avocado?

[dai sensei]

what great work! which one is the avocado?

Small one in last photo

[Treecycle]

Did you stabilize the Spalted Red Ash, or just turn it as it was?
Really like the job you did on the Tassie Myrtle. Did you have a colour called Blood Red? I have been looking for a colour that I would call dark blood red or maybe crimson. Do you have any names that would match that description?

[dai sensei]

Did you stabilize the Spalted Red Ash, or just turn it as it was?

Just turned as is, but a lot of thin CA as final size was approaching, especially at details as it did tend to tear.



Really like the job you did on the Tassie Myrtle. Did you have a colour called Blood Red? I have been looking for a colour that I would call dark blood red or maybe crimson. Do you have any names that would match that description?

My blood red is a mix of Scarlet Red translucent dye (a dark red) mixed with some solid red pigment till I get a blood look and colour consistency. Red Russet Pearlex powder is a nice crimson colour, but you can always use a bit of the Scarlet Red dye to make it darker if desired.