Woodturning: Shaping Pepper Mill Body

Video Transcript

"During this session we are going to take the body that we have just separated and mount it on the lathe. One of the first things to do is get a block of wood mounted into the lathe. You want to bring this block to round and cut 2 shoulders on it. The smaller shoulder is to be 1 and 1/16 of an inch to fit into the bored hole and the second one just slightly smaller than 1 and 5/8 of an inch just to give yourself some clearance. When you put the two together you should almost be able to have the piece sit by itself on the 1 and 1/16 inch hole, bring up your tail stock with a cone center and that will allow you to square things up. What I'll also do at this point because we have got saw marks and other marks from the parting tool, I'll square up the top end of the body. One of the checks you want to do with this is lay your tool against the side of the body and what you will be doing is something like this. You don't want to see any light or slight depression underneath. You want to see that it's either flat or concave. That way when you put the top on you will get a nice tight even fit."