1000 Mills

[Tyler David]

Turning Salt/Pepper mills is my full time job. Over the last four months I have been busy building up my inventory of them. Time to sell them now that it is the art show season for me.

 

[Michael Anderson]

Impressive work! I love the variety of colors, and the finish looks excellent. Shellac?

 

[Darryl Fective]

Nice work! I would guess it gets faster and easier as you do more of them. I did a couple, and that's enough for me for a while.

 

[R Henrickson]

Colorful array! What a number! In 15 years of turning, I have yet to make one.

 

[DON FRANK]

That's impressive and also interesting that you are not stuck in the same lane on style, color etc. The variety is incredible. Hope you sell them all.

 

[Alan Weinberg]

That is amazing. Good luck with sales.

 

[Richard Coers]

An impressive achievement, congrats. A job is the perfect description of making 1,000 of anything! Good timing to do that, I bet the tariff situation will be dramatically change the price of the hardware if you use imported.

 

[Darryn Achall]

Are some of them cut off in the bottom corners of the picture? I only counted 997.

 

[Mark Jundanian]

Some of those may be matryoshka mills, you know, a mill inside of a mill inside of a mill.

 

[Rusty Nesmith]

Wow I don’t think all of my turnings added together add up to that many. I saw your video a couple of days on your lac stick demo. Very good video.

 

[Tom Cates]

Do you have a favorite supplier for internal parts?

 

[Tyler David]

Impressive work! I love the variety of colors, and the finish looks excellent. Shellac?

Thanks! Finished with urethane, applied with foam brush

 

[Steve Tiedman]

I'll take that one- NO! Um, maybe that... mmmm... there are so many to choose from, I can't decide!

Great job! I hope they sell like hotcakes.

 

[Dave Fritz]

I too enjoyed your video. Your skill with a skew is something to be proud of. You have a busy summer ahead with your show schedule. I hope it goes well.

 

[Mike Nish]

Those look great! We need some close up shots of those mills!

 

[Will Armstrong]

Just amazing Tyler! Could we get a link to your video?

 

[Bill Blasic]

I believe you'll find it here:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMItJDn-9lA&ab_channel=QuadCitiesWoodturners

 

[Dean Center]

Tyler, while your production is truly impressive, I believe you have one problem. From what we see in your photo, your turning tools to product ratio is WAY too low. The GNP depends on each of us keeping that ratio high.

 

[Tyler David]

Tyler, while your production is truly impressive, I believe you have one problem. From what we see in your photo, your turning tools to product ratio is WAY too low. The GNP depends on each of us keeping that ratio high.

Haha, trying to make a living here!

 

[Roger Wiegand]

Are there written instructions anywhere for making the lac sticks?

You might consider selling them as a product line extension. I have been unable to identify a commercial source and the videos on making them make it look somewhat daunting. You might need a taffy pulling machine to do it at commercial scale.