Getting ready to turn my first salt & pepper mills. My wife bought me 3"x3"x12" blocks of Marblewood and Zapote wood (ha, never heard of these before) and a couple Crushgrind mills. I did lots of searching and came up with the design I want to make and now it comes down to the steps to make them. I did quite a bit of reasearch on this too.

My question is that most round the block, cut tenons, part the top from body, drill the body, and then use jam chucks to re-mount and shape the body. Now, I found one method that differs from this. After the block is rounded and one tenon put on the top end the holes in the bottom of the body are drilled and then the body is shaped and finished. This method would seem to a new turner to save lots of steps but there must be a reason most use the added steps. Looking for reasons for the added steps. (link to shortened method: http://www.woodworkersguide.com/2008...a-pepper-mill/ )



Thanks,

Mike