Woodturning - Peppermill Extravaganza
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- Woodturning - In this video, I take these incredibly punky and worm eaten cherry burl blanks and combine them with Designer Epoxy to make these one of a kind peppermills! Please like, share and comment! Thanks!
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Great Mills, I've made a number of them myself. Nice to see how another turner approaches and finishes a project. I learn something new each time I watch one of your videos and it's great inspiration. Thanks
Thanks Jerry!
Same here.
You are definitely a gifted man. I turn as well but I tried to copying your work, although I didn’t have the same wonderful pieces of wood you had, I tried as best as I could but I didn’t get as well even close as well as you do. You are quite an inspiration to be. Your instructions are very clear and concise that you make it make it easy to follow. Thank you for your wonderful presentation and your work. Great to watch!
Thanks Sylvie, I’ve got lots of years of experience under my belt, keep turning and you’ll get there, thanks for watching!
Yes these are freakin awesome!! You’ve made me look at gnarly rotten wood in a whole different light. I would have easily thrown these into the fire wood pile before you took me on your resin discovery journey. Can’t wait to try this myself. Thanks Jim. Fantastic as always.
It funny, me too, haha. Thanks 🙏
They are all gorgeous! It’s kinda funny that bugs make something so beautiful. All of the colors are so pretty but, I have a fondness for mother of pearl so, those are my favorite.
I like the pearl too, thanks
Well done, colors add a lot to the appeal of these mills. Thumbs up button could not find but deserved.
Thanks 🙏
Peppermill extravaganza = EXTRAVAGANTLY GORGEOUS pieces of usable art! Each and Everyone of these mills would be worth the price! #gnarlier = more beautiful! From the minimalist green to the stunning purple and gold! 😍💕🎊🎉💫 while blue is not my favorite color, but you might convince me with your favorite mill 😉 its getting close to ultra marine from historical paintings 😃
BTW....you need to hit duck tape up for a sponsorship! 😜😆
Ya, they owe me large, haha. Thanks 🙏
8:03 That lilac purple is pretty but then again I love all shades of purple or blues. 😊🥰
Thank you very much!
The beauty is stunning and your skill is amazing.
Thanks Rina!
I think Gorilla Tape is supposed to be stronger and sturdier than duct tape. I know hockey tape is....Just curious...what do you charge for these pepper mills anyway? Pat yourself on the back...those look amazing!!! I know you touched on the food grade thing and was saying it's not really necessary or whatever...but what about the wood itself...and the resin/epoxy? I mean food (pepper corns) touches those?
The resin is food safe when fully cured and the cherry is fine for food contact as well. Pricing is tricky and never easy to figure out. These mills should be twice the price from regular mills but that’s a tough sell. Thanks
@@SpragueWoodturning oh good you figured that out. I know when they discontinued Said Bowl Resin you were baffled about that.
Those are beautiful! I keep forgetting that you are left handed and it surprises me every time.
Lol, thanks 🙏
You might try PVC pipe as your resin form. A little car Bondo on an end cap make it stand straight, and mold release. It might be worth a try. Beautiful work by the way.
I’ve actually got some and tried it on a couple of mills and it worked great. Thanks 🙏
@@SpragueWoodturning Oh, cool!
good idea
Those are cool! Lots-o-work but cool. Can’t go wrong with knarly cherry burl!
One other thing. I have VERY buggy myrtlewood bowl blanks. Approx 12”x 4” thick. I have turn a couple. It’s been around along time and the bugs are gone. After you turn the bowl you can blow out the bug excrement and you are left with lots of bug holes. Would look cool with colored epoxy. Interested? I could check on shipping cost from Oregon to Canada.
It would look pretty cool, been looking for something similar to do on the channel. Send it out and I will do my best to get it on the channel, Jim.
O. M. G. Jim you did an amazing job with these pepper grinders! The purple one is my absolute favorite. You can keep your blue, lol! You outdid yourself!!!
Thanks a bunch!
Another fantastic project, the pepper mills are outstanding. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
I believe there are ceramic mechanisms that work better for salt.
Yes, I use them too, there’s a link in the description to the ones I use, Jim
Stellar and classy.
I'd have to have one if my train came in.
Or try and make my own, but then I'd need to commission your time to help me organize a left hand shop, I really like how you do things around there.
Blah blah dreaming in the day.
Awesome job. Thanks Jim
Being left handed is a curse most times, but we then to be the creative ones, lol. Thanks
I like the mills, as you do making them. "wink wink" They came out stunning. As a pepper fan, they won my heart. Had to give up salt, so now I use a lot of pepper. Have tried the batter powered ones, not a fan. Maybe it was the 5 or 6 we've tried. Hand mills is the only way to go. I'm sure the owner of these will love them too.🌿 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thank you very much!
As always fantastic job. Glad the worms did some of the work for you.
I found it most interesting that you mentioned Lee Valley. I talked with another turner about where she got her 4 jaw chuck and Lee Valley was what she said. So I have one one on the way. I live in Chapel Hill NC. I told Lee Valley that I watched your videos and they said that you bought items from them.
Thank you for your videos.
Lee Valley’s gotten a lot of my money over the years. Lol. Thanks
Amazing work bro ! Love your videos, they are informative, easy to understand and most of all enjoyable 👍 just wondering how long did you leave the pieces in the vacuum pot for and what psi if you don't mind me asking ? Wish you yanks would move on from the metric system tho , American movies always have plenty of grams and 9mm's 😂
They were in the pot for two days at 60psi. I’m Canadian eh, haha.
I love you mills, the only thing I can complain about as a Proud Canadian, is the "Made in USA" on you little metal crosspiece might make people think they are made in the USA. Your mills are beautiful.
Theses are the best mechanisms I’ve found for the price and wouldn’t change unless there was a comparable Canadian company, thanks
Beautiful work, decorative and functional, I love the blues and the purple. The blue laguna would work really well with my dishes
Thank you so much!
It looked to me like your cylinders were about 3-1/2 inches in diameter, next time why not try 4" PVC pipe as your "mold". You could use a flat cap at the bottom. Make a cut all the way from top to bottom on the tube,. Once you put the cylinders into the pipe, put the cap on the bottom, seal with hot glue. Then when you go to un mold, scrape off the hot glue, pop off the cap and open from the slit in the pipe.
Just a suggestion, save time & tape, & hot glue! 🙄💗
Oh, you could tap it on the table while filling to help get more even coverage and fill.
These’s mills were about 2.5 to 3.5” so that would of been a waist of resin, I was thinking of sourcing different sizes of PVC and have them on hand fo just an occasion. The plastic was also used so you could watch at home too. Tapping it is a good idea too, Jim.
there are ceramic plates for salt so those do not corrode from the salt.
There sure is, there’s a link in the description for the ones I use, Jim.
I amazed at how everything you do turns out and it's always beautiful. But when you cast these things in resin you have to know ahead of time that you are going to be doing it. But you don't ever seem to be prepared. There's so many easier and much better ways to prepare for the resin process. The plastic wrap could never work out for what you are doing, theres no way it couldn't leave gaps and voids, which you have to constantly go back and do over. Maybe I'm just wrong but I would have been prepared for the casting process. Why wouldn't you just look ahead and get whatever you might need instead of constantly doing things over again???
Trust me I don’t care to do things over, there’s not a lot of money in it. Keep in mind when I shot this video I had very little experience with resin, possibly six months so I’m no expert.
What, couldn't find your BIG roughing gouge?! Lol. That's awesome!
I should get the largest one 🤔🤔, lol. Thanks
Waooooo! are these pieces called balusters? if it is am totally amazed of Ur techniques on how to make it sooooo beautiful and attractive....mabuhay from philippines!
Thanks for watching
All of them together reminded me of the Kremlin. Beautiful building regardless of any opinion on the rest of Russia. Lovely set of pepper mills 🥰
Thanks 😊
All of them are Beautiful great colors awesome pepper mills great job Jim
Thanks Rich!
Turning videos are so relaxing. I watch a few of you because I do like the epoxy stuff. I see you are close to that 100k play button so I subbed to help lol
So close! Thanks
Also, down here in the States we have some stuff called Gorilla waterproof tape. Just a thought for some of your casting needs. It is waterproof under all the ways I've tried it.
I’ve got some. Thanks
Pepper mills are looking great.colours are fantastic brilliant work again stay safe
Thanks 🙏🏻
I don't have a P-Pot so I am curious, I use a vaccum chamber to de-gas the resin for my castings, and I never have any bubble issues that can't be fixed with a heat gun, I think in this case the preasure causes the plastic to deform and all that so why not just cast with de-gased resin and skip the pot part?
The pressure pot should push the resin into areas that it ordinarily wouldn’t flow, a vacuum chamber can also do the same but with only a two hour work time you would never be able to get all the air out of the blank, release the vacuum and have the resin penetrate the blank in time before it sets. This is why we prefer to use a pressure pot, thanks
That's awesome very cool that's is the kind if thing I don't even know what I am saying if there is s pattern to make a cnc type of machine like ai mentioned for a lamp the same kind of ides of the pepper mills zi wouldn't know actually what it would take to take a regular lathe and turn into this cnc either computerized controller to do that I wasn't necessarily thinking at first to use a pattern like an arm were the pattern is it'd fallows and the lathe cuts the pattern I think there Chinese probably already have something already manufactured or a piece that could with sensors etc and mechanical analog physical thing without the computer us actually what I thought it could be a small digital lathe they probably already have I would imagine they probably use that to make paper shakers at Walmart is thought you got a very exciting thing going seriously.
Copy lathes do exist but it’s just not my thing, thanks
These are all beautiful. I especially like the purple one, because I think that colour goes really well with the wood. I think that I personally prefer the bulb top instead of the pointy top, but it still looks great. Good video 👍
Thanks so much! 😊
Idea for creating tube to hold resin. buy cardboard shipping tubes; use wooden shims pointed up at base to center tube. add shims facing down at top of tube, and pour resin around shims. would that work?
Possibly, I would be a little worried about the seams in the tube failing, Jim.
These turned out amazing, Jim! The purple one is my favorite. 💜
It’s cool too, thanks Tracey!
These are beautiful! I think they're too nice to be used. I'd display them proudly.
Thank you very much
First time watching ur channel. Saving for my first lathe and can't wait to start turning. I've never seen pigment into the CA glue. Nice trick. Thanks!
Glad to help! Thanks
Hey, you are turning Right Handed, what's up man, what happened to Lefty?
This is where lefty’s have the advantage 😉😉
What if you had silicone molds made slightly bigger than the wood. You would have no leaks and your wood would be covered where the holes are.
Yes, that would work. Thanks
OMG Jim! That green! It's so freaking pretty!
Thanks 😊
Jim, we have so much in common you have an open invitation anytime to head south just over the border to here in the Adirondacks and spend a day in the shop comparing notes, experiences and some lathe time.
Thanks for the offer, ya never know, thanks 🙏
The rainbow blue is my favorite, but I am also fond of the emerald green and the blue laguna. Beautiful mills, Jim.
Me too, thanks 🙏
Herat project Jim thanks for sharing they are beautiful
Thanks David!
These look amazing! It’s a Danish tradition to give pepper mills to men that turn 25, and aren’t married, I’ve seen huge ones placed in front yards, the size of a small tower! ( female’s get covered in cinnamon in the middle of the street by her friends) strange culture huh? 🇩🇰🤣 but fun.
It’s certainly different, hahah. Do you know the reason behind this?
@@SpragueWoodturning It’s like a bachelor thing, if your not married by 25, I think your friends would make it known, it’s probably to help them find a mate, 😆 it certainly draws attention. I’ll try to make a video next time I see a huge pepper mill
It's a good thing I have a pepper mill already. That way I can enjoy looking at what you have made. The blue, purple and the gold are gorgeous
Thanks 😊
You'd think they'd have PVC pipe in a similar diameter. They've got that in many sizes and it's relatively easy to cut open if you need to. I saw that girl turner you recommended do this with a smaller diameter. The poly is probably less expensive than PVC pipe tho. The poly also lets you see how well the resin is penetrating, too!
These are the most beautiful peppermills I've ever seen! I'm also strongly considering eventually doing a set of salt and pepper mills for my house since the ones we currently have are just not matching our color scheme. And really...this is so incredibly beautiful! I hope I'm eventually able to break into an artistic medium where I can do stuff like this too!
It's funny, the rot is actually the most visually stunning part of the wood on these pieces. It may be awful for the tree, but all these maladies make for some beautiful wood pieces!
Now that I’ve really gotten into resin casting I find the rotten pieces are the best pieces, lol. Thanks for watching!
@@SpragueWoodturning So agree!
a suggestion for round cylinders like this would be go to home depot get a section of that cheap thin wall pvc pipe and a end cap , use for your resin pour then turn off
I debated using that too, thanks 🙏
An absolute TONNE of good information here. I've got a couple S&P mill kits that I've been wanting to try so this is perfect timing for me. Thx.
Great! Thanks 🙏
Jim, if the male and/or the female grinder breaks or wears out can we replace them?
Yes, you sure can. Thanks
Ahoy! What was the rough diameter of the mill blanks?
This was a while ago but probably 2.5 inches, thanks
Don't change a thing except three days a week.wierd piece but nice
Thanks
I notice that you use a pressure pot, have you tried using a vacuum chamber?
Not for casting only stabilizing
it amazes me how you turn ugly rotten wood into a beautiful masterpiece. these are the videos i stay up late watching haha. great work!
Awesome, lol. Thanks 🙏
These are awesome!!! Please share where you purchase the forstner bit extension that does not have set screws.
I bought it at Lee valley here in Canada but they no longer carry it, thanks
You should remind folks that they make a ceramic insert for salt mills.
Yes, that’s what I use. I will cover this in an upcoming video, thanks
Jim outstanding job on all the mills😊
I love all the colors, but my favorite is the purple.
Blue and purple for me! Thanks Tanya!
Before reading the caption I thought those were chess pieces. XD
Thanks, lol.
Cast your next mills in PVC pipe, cap one end and pour away.
Thanks
Those are really pretty Jim. It's always a treat to watch your work my friend.
Thanks Tim!
Probably be hard to get them out of pvc pipes, but...
Been there, done that. Plastic wraps where it at, lol.
why can't you take a plastic coke or pepsi bottle and heat treat it to the wood? Maybe that will do better than the 6M poly?
Sure, that might work. Didn’t think of it and I don’t think the bottles would of fit some of these castings. They were too large. Thanks
The pepper mills look great. I have some Sycamore that I will have to try and make a mill out of. Thanks for the ideas!
My pleasure, thanks for watching.
This is outstanding work Jim. Even with my own talent in 12 years experience in resin. Your work exceeds itself. Bravo my friend 👏 absolutely stunning results
This could only be done with a great resin! Thanks Gabriel!
I like them all better then the ones you see at the store SO COOL. Thanks
hank you
Thanks for watching!
Just a suggestion, look into some PVC pipe from an electrical wholesaler. Maybe even a box store may have it, but I haven't seen anything over 2" ID. Along with some mold release, it should slide out- Although I just turn it off since it is a soft plastic. Happy turning!
I’ve tried the pvc and the resin stuck bad, I use a crappy mold release so that’s probably the issue.
Like you said, it turned away easily. I was also using the plastic because it’s cheap and the viewers were able to watch the resin being poured into the blank. It would of been ideal to not have the plastic so tight. I’m pretty sure that’s why there were air pockets in some of the mills. Thanks 🙏
@@SpragueWoodturning I like the way you go over how and why you are doing something in a project as well. Thank you. :D
@@SpragueWoodturning I read somewhere that a thin coat of mineral oil works for some people. It maybe something I have to try in the future. Keep up the fantastic videos.
Apply denatured alcohol or acetone to loosen and remove hot glue...
Too time consuming, I figured it was way easier to just turn it away, Jim.
Ok so I never knew I needed a fancy Pepper Mill.......now I do.
TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!!
I will, lol. Thanks, I was thinking of doing another run of them. Just got some more burl in.
@@SpragueWoodturning how do I find your store? Is there a link on your page?
No store, just shoot me an email and let me know what your looking for. spraguewoodturning@gmail.com
Beautiful mills Jim.. Blue is my favourite as well.. As always, thanks for all the really valuable tips and tricks 😊
Great minds think alike!
have you ever tried making molds out of styrene?
No I haven't, do you?
Absolutely awesome work; each one is stunning 👍🏻
Thanks 🙏
Dang slow down Jim you're making the rest of us look bad:) beautiful work
Sorry, lol. Thanks 🙏🏻
Where do you get all this burl from? It's so cool.
Sometimes it just arrives, lol. I put an add in my local buy and sell. That’s a good place to start.
Another wonderful video. Is there any chance that you could show us how to sharpen the skewgie gouge, or at least send a link to some info, I bought one from Lee Valley but I can't figure out how to sharpen it. Thanks for everything I have been learning from you.
I will see if I can work it into an upcoming video. Do you use jigs when you sharpen your tools?
@@SpragueWoodturning I do have the wolverine setup. But if you do it freehand I can learn.
I only use jigs to sharpen. Just can’t do it well freehand. I will try to cover it in a video the next time I use it.
Nice work, where do you get the sleaves you put inside ?
Thanks Pete
I got them from Uline. Thanks for watching
@@SpragueWoodturning I checked out Uline ,all I saw was 1 1/2 dia cardboard tubes, the holes in the pepper grinders are 1 1/16 , maybe I'm not at the right Uline website? Maybe send me the link?
Thanks Pete
Outstanding 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 Who picked the wood and colors? The combination of the wood and colors is amazing.
The client picked the colors, I added the deep blue and selected the wood, but they picked the other colors.
. kind of looks like a bishop from a chess set. ;-)
Yes, thanks 🙏
Oh wow. The colours are stunning..
Thanks for watching!
I have never understood why, when using a slow curing epoxy, it's not better to put the castings in a vacuum chamber first to get the air out [similar to stabilizing] and then into a pressure pot to compress what air is left. Any opinion on that...I haven't tried it yet since I've just started using epoxy have been using a faster curing one. Thanks...pepper mills look great BTW
Yes, I suppose this would be a good idea especially when using the deep cast with a long open time. Perhaps I will do this next time. The bubbles that appeared in the mills are a direct result of the plastic being too tight around the mill blanks. If your using a fast setting resin, you might not have the time to do the vacuum chamber, Jim
I watched this on tv. Very Nice pieces.
Thank you very much
Hello Jim, those are nice pepper mills you made too bad you had to pour twice, but things like that happen.
I also made a pepper mill from wood and epoxy and I had other problems like chip out which is why it has a unique shape. Cheers, Hans
Stay safe and keep turning.
Thanks Hans!
I love the blue pearl also........so beautiful
Thanks!
I really like your work but you babble on a little too much
New channel coming with condensed videos, thanks
Thanks Jim, You are amazing.
Thanks 🙏
Great looking mills , I use PVC and put a screw in the bottom to keep it centered. Just turn the PVC off as it only adds a few minutes to the turning process, just a suggestion about using PVC pipe. Don't forget to remove the bottom screw as ask me how I know?😁
I’ve used pipe too, just didn’t have the right size I guess and yes, that screw is a problem, lol
Liking the pepper mills a lot. Great use of wood that most people would've thrown out.
This is where resins have an advantage, thanks.
Those are bad ass Jim!! Love the color combos, great job!!
Thanks Brad!
Love the peppermills! The colors are amazing!
Thanks 🙏
Beautiful work. Really enjoyed watching this video. Thanks very much. Xx
Thanks Mandy!
Those are awesome. Nice pepper mills, Jim.
Thanks 🙏
Beautiful work. thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Aj obyčajné menšie aj so stojanom by sa zišli.
Thanks
Wow Jim They came out beautiful , the finish is exquisite .
Thanks Ahron, it was a ton of work!
Nice job thanks for sharing
Thanks Jude!
Hey Jim! Excellent video with excellent instruction!
Loved the little tip about straightening the blank in the chuck. I’ve done that for quite awhile now so I was glad to see a pro doing it as well! 😂
As always, they turned out lovely!
Thanks for sharing!
- Seth
Ya just might eat a turning blank if your not careful, haha, thanks
Oh, yeah Blue Pearl. Love those cherry burl 👍👍
Blues the winner! Thanks Jim
Are you try whit vibration....????
Sorry I don’t understand your question! Thanks
Great contrast between the resin and the burl, love the purple one.
It’s popular, thanks 🙏
Drop down beautiful 👍
Thanks William!
Really fine work Jim....those mills are exceptionally beautiful and durable and I especially like the way in which you brought the cherry burl (gnarly indeed) to great life. Best wishes....eh!
Thanks, theses turned out better than I expected! Jim