Thread: 1m long Salt & Pepper Grinders

Originally Posted by Mr Unknown

Did you drill the hole before you roughed it out? We used to make pizza handles with holes right through and we would drill them first as straight as possible and make two plugs the same diameter as the holes for the lathe then turn it and the hole would be almost exactly center all the way through because the holes line up with the centers on the lathe, if you know what i mean?
Also i havent read all the posts but are u saying that your getting vibration? if its 90mm dia and 1m long you should have no problems with vibration, maybe you got the lathe running to fast?
Also that timber you got from the yard i dont think is oregon because oregon is more orange and more lines in the grain, what you have looks like jarrah, just a guess though.
hope this might help.

Yes I drilled first, but it wandered, so each end is centred but the middle may not be. No it is not Jarrah, that pink colour is paint, looks/turns/has fibres like oregon to me. I'm no expert, but it is definately a softwood.

Yes I was running it too fast probably, but holding from one end only is also a bit sus:eek: I have learnt a lot about turning on this project though