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Ron Menninga (Head Elfin) thewoodelfin@woodelfin.com
(925) 609-6314 - Concord, CA
The Head Elfin's Chief Critic and her Dog (Pawdog passed on 6/07/2007, Obituary)
Welcome to my web site, it is my hope that visitors will find it inspiring, instructive, interesting and perhaps you will find something beautiful that you will want in your home or to give as a present.
I have been working with wood in one form or another for quite some time but discovered the lathe fairly recently and fell in love with what can be done with it. Along with the joy of creating beautiful bowls, peppermills and many more items I hope that you might find something that you might like to own (see my Showcase pages for items that are not available for purchase or my For Sale page for currently available pieces).
My website is fairly new and I will be adding content as time passes. I plan on adding pages describing some of the procedures that go into the creation of my work and much more. If you click on the small bowl in my heading you can see some of the procedures that go into creating it (work in progress).
Here is a picture of my favorite set of mills to date. They are made from 5A musical grade Hawaiian Koa which was a pure pleasure to turn. I use a mechanism made by a company in Belgium that is called the CrushGrind that is made of ceramic and will grind anything from dried spices to coffee beans (why you would want to I don't know - but it will). Since it is made from ceramic it will not rust when grinding salt and it is so hard that it will last for a long time (there is a manufactures warranty for 25 years). The fineness adjustment is on the bottom so it gives me a lot of freedom for design and the adjustment wheel turns with the grinder it does not come unadjusted like the standard mechanism does. All in all it makes for an awesome mill. Click here to see how I make my mills.
