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Ambrosia Maple is soft maple with a cream colored background which is host to a variety of greyish-blue to brown streaks that are caused by an infestation of the ambrosia beetle. The beetle burrows into the tree and leaves a fungus in it’s path, which is what creates the discoloration in the wood and create a very unique pattern in each board. In most or all of the streaks there are tiny holes from where the beetle burrowed into the wood. yup, there is a bit of spalting too.That's what I describe as batch work, question if I may Dan. what's the difference between Ambrosia maple and hard maple?, and a secon one.
Those are spalted right?
Be careful wearing a grippy glove and drilling with Forstner bits. Things can go badly in a heartbeat.after work, i stopped at the shop, and finished drilling the top insets, bottom insets, and through holes for the salt mills today. the glove i wore had such a good grip, that it wasn't so bad. now it is on to turning the coffee grinder parts.
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I have never drilled any of those items on a drill press either but, in general we don't hold those items while we are drilling them on the lathe either.I've never tried to drill a pepper mill blank on my DP.... it's old, a HF bench top and all my drill bits are dull (I do sharpen them occasionally on my belt sander but their still not as sharp as a new on)... always use the lathe to drill... little danger to my digits and hands.
You never did say where you got the salt mills... are they different from the pepper grinders? I only use the crush grind ceramic grinders and they grind salt and/or peper.