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Hey everyone, I opened a thread a while back for making replacement handles out of some better then that black plastic. I have started a kickstarter campaign to replace them with ones made out of either cherry or walnut. check it out...

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Hey everyone, I opened a thread a while back for making replacement handles out of some better then that black plastic. I have started a kickstarter campaign to replace them with ones made out of either cherry or walnut. check it out...

Thanks for the replies everybody. I'll give it some work and see what I get. Will post some pictures.

All the money we spend on Beer Gear and a $12 tap handle scares you away?

I haven't had any problems with air bubbles that I have seen in my casting. I have been tooling them down and there haven't been any voids. It's possible that the grains are hiding some bubbles but this hasn't been an issue.

I'm going to be setting up a website to sell some beer-centric turning projects in the next few weeks. I'll send you a PM to let you know it's up and I will probably open a new thread for requests / ideas on what people want. Simple beer taps seems to be a no brainer to make available, be it...

Will have to give the whole grain pens a try and see what I get. Will post pictures once done.

For tap handles I was thinking similar. Unless someone wanted to use their own spent grains to serve their own beer! I haven't tried using uncrushed grain for pens yet, the pen walls are pretty thin so not sure how that would look. As for conversation starter, my pens look similar to this...

Currently I'm casting in Polyester resin and it comes out as a rigid plastic filled with grain (need to post a picture when I get home). Sturdy enough to drill and tool on a lathe. Yes, I am looking at tap handles also if there is an interest.

Hello everybody, Been an active homebrewer for about 4 years now and always loved finding interesting things to do with my spent grains. Mostly all the typical things like making muffins or fertilizing my garden. My other part time hobby is woodturning, mostly making pens and taps as...

32022 + 5 gal Watermelon Wheat 32027

Try putting a small fan in the bottom of the freezer, won't take much electricity to run. Will keep the whole freezer the same temp.

I just figure that the plastic is never actually getting to 150. With Ice on the inside and hot wort on the outside the plastic averages somewhere between these temperatures. When the Ice is pretty much melted from the first bottle the temp of the wort is below 120. Bottles left sitting out...