This is a gorgeous pepper mill - a show piece for the kitchen. It's built like a tank and has a substantial, gratifying heft to it. However, if you read the reviews for this, and all of the Atlas pepper mills, you will learn it's limitation - it only does a very fine grind and the screw adjustment does little to nothing to change this. You will also see some people have obtained a very coarse grind by removing the adjustment screw and the bridge/plate it screws in to, at the expense of losing a fine grind. They still have no adjustment available to them. This is a poor "solution".At least one reviewer has identified the real problem - the grinding burr is too large/tall. It cannot freely move up and down as intended to adjust the grind. The solution is simple - you need to remove 1/8" - 3/16" of metal from the bottom-facing rim of the burr. If you have an angle grinder, this will take seconds. If you don't, prepare to spend an hour or two or three with a Dremel (cylindrical stone grinding wheel) or better and more accurate yet, though much more effort, a metal file. I used a DMT Dia-Sharp Extra Extra Coarse diamond stone and filed the burr down by hand. It took two sweat-drenched, hand-cramping hours. It was worth it. I now have a full range of grind, from the original super-fine to at least as coarse as my Unicorn Magnum Plus.Tips on how to dismantle the Atlas can be found perusing the reviews. If you must have coarse ground pepper, the engineering effort to get it may seem absurd considering this mill's high price and you'll probably want to find a different mill. However, if you're like me and are captivated by the otherwise outstanding aesthetics and quality of the Atlas, a little ingenuity and elbow grease can transform this into the finest pepper mill available.