Well, we had a nice ceramic salt cellar which I dropped and broke. So, I fired up my lathe and made this one. It is not the fanciest turning, but it is a nice, simple project.
My wife liked it, so now I’m making more ad Christmas presents!
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Well, we had a nice ceramic salt cellar which I dropped and broke. So, I fired up my lathe and made this one. It is not the fanciest turning, but it is a nice, simple project.
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Hah! Same situation as you – the only thing I’ve had a chance to turn since taking the great lathe class at the SDFWA shop was a replacement salt cellar for the one I broke. It’s not nearly as refined as yours…imagine a salt cellar turned by Conan the Barbarian…
during a battle…
that he lost
and you’ll get the idea about the level of sophistication. Ah, modern tech makes it easy to embarrass myself publicly, might as well take advantage of that:
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It’s beautiful! Nice choice of wood!
Are those inset magnets to keep the lid on?
If so then how did you get the positioning correct?
I can imagine that it’s “get it right the first time or never.”
Nice, quick answer to broken one
Yes, I get the ones from LV
Seat-of-the-pants positioning…mark the center of the cellar wall at the location where the magnet is desired, and be really careful to drill a clean hole of the correct diameter and depth. Then I made a pseudo-dowel center so I could mark the underside of the lid and have reasonably concentric magnets.