{"id":326,"date":"2009-05-27T21:54:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T03:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/?p=326"},"modified":"2009-05-27T21:54:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T03:54:53","slug":"nissen-knight-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/2009\/05\/27\/nissen-knight-mill\/","title":{"rendered":"Nissen &#8220;Knight&#8221; Mill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Teak Pepper reader Brad B for sending me these photos of a super rare, super crazy Nissen designed teak mill he recently acquired.\u00a0 Although Quistgaard&#8217;s mills are often referred to as &#8220;chess piece&#8221; mills, it was actually Nissen who marketed his mills as shaped like chess pieces.\u00a0 Most of them are\u00a0 roughly shaped like pawns or other pieces &#8211; close enough to use them in a game if you got them all and had a big enough board.\u00a0 The 1972 Nissen catalog actually has one called a &#8220;knight&#8221;, but it really looks nothing like a knight.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is no mistaking this piece is a knight from a chess set.\u00a0 It is one of the strangest and most elaborate of all the mills I have seen.\u00a0 The workmanship is amazing &#8211; the horse shape must have been created on a lathe and then the four heads cut out by hand.\u00a0 At the top is a wood plug for the pepper corns, there&#8217;s no salt shaker on this one.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never seen this one before, so I hope you enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-327\" title=\"nissen-knight-mill-teak-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/nissen-knight-mill-teak-1.jpg\" alt=\"nissen-knight-mill-teak-1\" width=\"452\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/nissen-knight-mill-teak-1.jpg 452w, https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/nissen-knight-mill-teak-1-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-328\" title=\"nissen-knight-mill-teak-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/nissen-knight-mill-teak-2.jpg\" alt=\"nissen-knight-mill-teak-2\" width=\"452\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/nissen-knight-mill-teak-2.jpg 452w, https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/nissen-knight-mill-teak-2-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Teak Pepper reader Brad B for sending me these photos of a super rare, super crazy Nissen designed teak mill he recently acquired.\u00a0 Although Quistgaard&#8217;s mills are often referred to as &#8220;chess piece&#8221; mills, it was actually Nissen who marketed his mills as shaped like chess pieces.\u00a0 Most of them are\u00a0 roughly shaped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teakpeppers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teakpepper.com\/teakpepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}