Thread: Pepper & Salt Grinders from Queensland Timbers

I have often thought of making pepper n salt grinders, but that about as far as I have travelled with it.Nice looking grinders

Very sweet looking grinders.

Logdog certainly has a nose for finding top class wood. I still have plenty of his pepper mill & pen blanks in my stash.

We have two massive Raintrees across the road in the church grounds and at least 5 more have been removed from our suburb when it was developed or shortly there after. One Raintrees canopy would be 35 to 40 m in diameter. They are an import planted by the early European settlers to the area to provide shade for stock. Raintrees are a magnificent shade tree but we have a love hate relationship with them at this time of year. Being semi-deciduous they and a very large Poinciana tree drop a lot of fine & small leaves to flower then we have to deal with the huge amounts of leaves, flower petals, stamens etc. Nothing to see a layer 75mm plus depth of debris from them on the road, in the kerbing and in under them. They also drop some quite large dead limbs. A small inconvenience really for the huge benefits they provide from their passive cooling thru summer and the respite they provide for our local RACQ road service crews who often take a break under them.

I reckon there are 50k plus pepper mill blanks or millions of pen blanks in them though.

Oh and a word of caution, the white sapwood of Raintree is known to cause breathing difficulties for some when sanding etc.