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I am about to embark on my maiden pepper / salt turning experience and have read a considerable number of articles on the do's and dont's of how to set up and go about the business. I must say that...

Tks John (again) and Salty for your input. All very valuable. Can,t wait to generate some more shavings. Obviously there are a lot of alternative methods to turning the mills, found yours to be...

Having partly satisfied my pen turning urge I now am onto salt and pepper mills. Would any of you experienced spinners like to recommend the best method of boring the blanks. I have read a couple of...

thanks Peter for all that great info. Being only new to Wagga I'll certainly follow up your leads.
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Mick

Thanks Dallas, yeh my lathe is an ELU and apparently the M18x2.5RH is a bit of a bodgey thread, which makes it hard to find pieces to fit that turning. I've sent a note off to Hare and Forbes hoping...

Hi all, my first post. I want to get into pen making and I have a problem in that my lathe drive is bored to only 6mm dia. and consequently wont take an available morse tapered mandrel. The drive...

Hi Ravlord, would like to have a look at the longcase and regulator plans. Thanks for that.

Ian, what do you use to cutthe matching threads? Tks.