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willstewart:
Another variant - pepper grinder plus salt holder in 3mm birch ply plus red veneer spacers.

Both from bits around the workshop  - thinner ply is nice but somewhat tedious to glue! 

Grinder mechanism is 'crushgrind' shaftless - so the top and bottom parts of the stem rotate wrt each other and the top (stained sycamore) is just a lid.

willstewart:
Yet another variant - same structure as the pen (red/white veneer epoxy sandwich)and about 42mm dia

willstewart:
sorry - pen omitted.  here it is - also red/white veneer barrel (Beaufort Mistral - red highlights are acrylic)

willstewart:
FTR a useful side note is that most of these sandwiches were glued with PVA (Titebond) but this does not work with the all-veneer sandwiches - the PVA normally dries into the wood and there is not enough wood.  A first attempt at the pen fell apart even after 24 hours.  A switch to clear epoxy for the pen and pendant solved this.

Bill21:
Having glued, turned and finished items, only to have the joint creep slightly weeks or even days later, I now only use Urea Formaldehyde glue. Joints made with this adhesive remain rock solid with zero creep.

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