Pepper Grinders

[blmac5]

Playing around with the rotary attachment. This is a style of peppermill that I make for a spice store that carry some if my items. I thought it would be nice if I could do some engraving on them. Fleur-de-lis are a big seller on just about anything, so I put a couple of Fleur-de-lis on one and then filled in with the coffee grounds and CA glue. I wanted to put three Fleur-de-lis evenly spaced around the peppermill, but when it started engraving, they came out all skewed. Not sure what the problem was, but when I did just one, it looked just fine. Then, I rotated the mill 180 degrees, and did another.

Bobby
Louisiana

[ChrisInEstes]

Nice looking mills... Where do you get the mechanicals? Are they good quality?

Chris

[blmac5]

Chris, I got them from Woodcraft, but there are several companies that carry them, Woodcraft had them on sale. I was
well pleased with the quality of the mechanism. The only thing is, the parts are metal, I would recommend that you use
it for pepper only. It will grind salt, but it will corrode the metal over time.

Bobby

[ChrisInEstes]

Thanks for the info. There's a Woodcraft store not too far from me, I'll have to check out the mechanism.

Chris

[NewAgent45]

Nice job blmac5!

We made some pepper grinders using the same grinder assembly available from Woodcraft. We built our own version (economy version) of a 4th axis assembly. You can review my pepper grinder here. http://www.cncsharktalk.com/viewtopic.p ... 130#p24577 As you can see I carved 3 instances of a 3D object around the cylinder. This should give you some ideas for future projects.

You have a more sophisticated machine. But I suggest you review a whole string of posts "Bob's Super Simple 4th Axis for other project ideas.
http://www.cncsharktalk.com/viewtopic.p ... er+grinder

... Rod