December Challenge - Salt and Pepper POST PICS HERE

[nev]

A little early, but I envisage people may be a little otherwise occupied over the next few days :ho2 so please post your entries here....

December - SALT AND PEPPER

From scratch, from kits, from your imagination. Mills, shakers, bowls or 80's pop duo.

Usual rules:
Open to anyone and everyone.
New work only please.
To be made on the lathe using wood turning tools.
no minimum or maximum size.

Can be made of multiple woods if desired
Decoration, colouring, texturing is allowed, but again remember its about the turning :wink:


Please post 3 or 4 images of your work along with a brief note about how you made it, what tools and finish you used, what wood (if known) and the objects dimensions etc.

for example
1 showing a general view
1 showing a top down/ internal view
1 showing a side (by side) view
1 optional photo showing any other feature you think might be of interest

Image size please use image size 640 x 480 0.3 mp, same previous months

Please upload your pics and description between ..
now
and
10pm on the 30th December


After this time the thread will be locked for Judging
Results will be a few days later when everyone has sobered up!

This months judge will be Richard Findley

Any entry's that are outside the rules and requirements will not be judged
The Judges decision is final ( Any negative comments re judging must be via PM only and not on the open forum )
NO Critique or comments on any work until After the Judging and results please.

Have fun! and just a reminder ANYONE can join in. Its not to be taken too seriously


ROUNDUP

 

[nev]

My mind was blank (still is!) but managed to come up with Fred the flour man. He has now been promoted to the top table and is now fred the salt and pepper man.
Made from oak with inserts from Turners Retreat, sanded to 400 and finished with a few coats of cellulose sanding sealer.
Started with a 2" cylinder, parted in two. shaped the hat, 40mm drill for insert and hollow and finessed to rebate the insert. 20mm hole through for bung. and repeat for head. using a jam chuck to reverse the work and turn the bottom ends.
Mostly spindle gouge and flat scraper and forstner bits for the hollowing.

Confession: Freds hat is a bit too big for his head. I was going for a tightish fit but over sanded and its a bit loose now.

:ho2 :deer Merry Christmas, one and all :deer :ho2

 

[Tazmaniandevil]

So here's mine, only slightly tongue in cheek. Made from the trunk of a Christmas tree from about 3 years ago. Trees are finished with crayola and the snowman has been splashed with nail polish. I had some torn grain near one of the knots, but have no idea how to fix that despite sharpening the skew several times during cutting. Shaping was done using spindle gouge then planing cuts with skew.

 

[Sheptonphil]

Hi all.

This month's entry, a pair of shakers in Black Walnut, 90mm High and 45mm diameter at the widest point using the inserts from Turners retreat (thanks Nev).

Starting with a length of stock it was turned to a cylinder 50mm in diameter and a dovetail formed each end for chucking, removed from the lathe and cut in half on the bandsaw. Placed in a chuck a 30mm forstner was used to make a hole 75mm deep and the stepped recess made to sink the shaker caps into the top, cavity was sanded and finished with carnuba. I made a shroud to slip over the live centre with a 30mm spigot approx 60mm long and made an external dovetail on the live centre end .
Held in the chuck and tail supported with the spigoted live centre into the body cavity, the body of the shaker was turned, sanded to 600, sealed and waxed with renaissance. The live tail shroud was then put in the chuck with the shaker jam fitted onto the spigot to drill the base at 20mm for the plug, then shaped to recess the plug into the bottom. All sanded and sealed, with a final polish all over.

 

[winemaker]

Hi this is my salt & pepper pots I know there are not brilliant putting them in to show I want to enter the challenges I will get better
:ho2 :deer

 

[sammo]

Hi all, My efforts. I used the crush grind system for the internals. The salt mill (the larger one) is made from an unknown African hard wood; I was going to make both out of the same, but the rest of the blank had a massive split that made it unusable - so made the pepper mill from American walnut. These are not my first salt and pepper mills, the ones I made when I started used to be very similar - but since then I have consciously decided not to make matching pair - so yes they are different on purpose....

turned beads to make a visual break between the lids and the bodies.

The finish on both is sanding sealer and friction polish - buffed on a 3 wheel mop system.

 

[dennisk]

Salt in brown oak and pepper in black walnut. Cut and planed a couple of blocks 4 1/2" by 1 7/8" square and hot glued them to the wooden faceplate and cut the rings in with a spear shaped scraper. This was with the bottom of the shakers 1" over center. Took them off and cleaned up glue and then hot glued them with the circle to the faceplate and with the bottom of the blocks 1/2" short of center. I glued a couple of scrap blocks I had used for practise to the other side of center, for balance. Then using my ellsworth bowl gouge I shear scraped the curved taper in, and hand sanded in the direction of the grain with the lathe stopped up, to 320. Took them off and turned them 90 degrees, glued them on as per last time and did the same thing. Took them off and hand sanded to 320, sanded off the corners and drilled 15/16" holes for the Lee Valley salt and pepper shakers, on the drill press in a jig to keep them square etc. Laquer finish. They are 4 1/2" high and about 1 3/4" at the bottom and about 1 3/8" at the top. There are 2 flat sides as seen in first picture and 2 curved sides and because this was done on the lathe, they curve in 2 directions. I included a pic of them on the faceplate and you can see the curves. This pic was taken during the second part of the shear scrape. Hope this makes sense. Thanks to all involved and looking forward to next year.
Oops , the black square you see in pic 4 is my reflection, and I have the lids mixed up!

 

[heatherw]

I wasn't quite sure whether to enter this, I had an hour or so the last Sunday before I left, but only got as far as Mark 1. And the spoons parted themselves off before I was ready, and my hot air gun broke in the middle so I had to hack the glue off with a chisel......

Anyway, I was sitting in the airport hand-sanding the spoons, got a few queer looks but it was just as well I had something to do cos it was the night of the gale and the floods and the plane was delayed. I had to transport the whole thing to the UK anyway because my camera broke before I could finish the photos - a chapter of disasters really.

For some reason I decided to make a salt and pepper pinch pot out of what I think is almond wood. This involved a glue chuck and a change of position. Unfortunately I haven't got round to filling up the base of my lathe with sand, so it was dancing around all over the place being so off-centre and I could only see what I was doing when the lathe was stopped. It was really for a bit of respite that I decided to make the spoons out of some of my sycamore, they behaved very well, really, though it was getting dark by the time I was parting them off and I couldn't see so well. Probably a harder wood would have been better, and I wasn't quite sure how to make the spoon bit, in the end I turned it round, and then carved the spoony bit out by hand.

The finish for the almond was liquid vaseline, which I think is the same as liquid paraffin, it's the first time I've used it and I like it very much, it sinks in, goes matt with a sheen and brings out the colour of the wood. It's also food safe, of course. It's been on a week now and doesn't seem to have changed colour, I will be using it again. The spoons have no finish. Oh, and I forgot to take a photo of the underneath, but it's just sanded flat and 'vaselined'.