Help making peppermill

Can someone give a good site to get information on making peppermills? My daughter just purchased a new chuck for her lathe and she bought all the hardware to make a nice simple project for a beginner...right!! I didn't have the heart to tell her she could have picked something easier to begin with! Anyway,I've never made one so I can't be of much help. Something with a lot of instructions and pictures would be great.

Thanks all

Mike

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Mike R. Courteau
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I'm new to wood turning and have never made a peppermill (yet). I did a search on goggle and came up with a couple of links:

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and a pdf file at this link:
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I hope this helps some, Jack

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Taunt

Woodturning design, the magazine has had a couple of articles on making them. Here are the instructions I hand out to my students, it's about to get overhauled though.

For a peppermill your blank should be at least 2 ½" square and approximately 2" longer than the planned mill. For an 8" mill ideally you should have a 10" blank. I prefer to start with a slightly oversized blank so I purchase wood 6" wide and cut it in half.

Start the turning by marking the center of the blank and mounting it between centers on the lathe. Turn it down to a cylinder. Turn a shouldered tenon on each end of the blank. At this stage you should stop the lathe and examine the blank in order to determine which end will be the top and which will be the bottom. Make another tenon at the top of the body of the mill. Use the shaft as a guide to the length of the mill and to get an idea of the proportions of the body to the top. Part off the top from the mill body.

Using a scroll chuck, with a set of #2 jaws you should be able to mount the body in the chuck. Drill the mill body with a 1" forstner bit. If you're drilling from the top of the mill, ease the whole edge to make the mill easier to fill. If you're drilling from the bottom, turn the bottom recess to accept the mechanism parts. Reverse the mill body and complete the other end.

At this Point, with a funneled top and the mechanism fitting into the bottom of the body it's time to turn the body. Take a piece of scrap, mount it in your #2 jaws and turn a cone. Mount the body between centers using the cone and a live center. You can now commence turning the body, sand and finish the piece. Be sure to clean up your top tenon and remove any marks left by the chuck.

Put the mechanism in the body of the mill as per the included instructions. With the excess of the shaft pointing out from the top, you can gauge and mark the outside dimensions of your top. Drill a

5/16 hole through the top. Turn a recess in the bottom to fit the top of the body, and a smaller one to snugly fit the shaft guide.

Turn the bottom half of the top, reverse and chuck by expanding the jaws in the recess. Finish turning, sand and finish the top.

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woodturningcreature

There are several different mechanisms out there and the procedure for each is different. Try finding a website for the outfit you bought the mechanism from - it often contains an instruction set.

For example , here's an article on turning the peppermill

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and here are a couple of instruction sets for a particular design of grinding mechanism

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jev

Thanks everyone. I have eveything I need now.

Mike

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Mike R. Courteau

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