I spent a long, too long, time searching for a satisfactory pepper grinder. I have had the glass/stainless steel hourglass-shaped ones, and the problem is that the ceramic grinding mechanism fails when the little plastic retention ring falls out. Once that happens, they won’t work again, and you can’t fix them. So I started looking elsewhere, and came across this old-fashioned pepper grinder, with some new features and stainless steel parts, all designed and made in the USA. It has a unique locking mechanism for your grind setting. The nut on top of the grinder adjusts the fineness of the grind, like you’d expect, but the trick is that, as you are adjusting the nut, you push up on the bottom of the grinder. It’s spring-loaded, so it moves the shaft up a little, and the teeth in the bottom of the nut then re-set, into a toothed washer built into the lid when you release pressure on the bottom of the grinder. That holds your exact grinder setting until you want to change it to coarser or finer. That’s pretty cool, and makes the fineness almost infinitely adjustable! The pepper grinder itself is made of solid wood and the parts are well-machined stainless steel. This is a chef-grade piece of equipment. I got the 6” walnut stained grinder, and it’s a nice size. Not too tall or short, and it fits and feels nice in your hand. Easy to fill, although you do have to readjust the grinder setting after you fill it since you have to remove the nut and lid to access the center shaft where the pepper goes. You can easily clean the entire grinder when you refill simply by pushing the mechanism from the bottom and pulling the shaft and attached grinder mechanism out of the top. Brush everything off, don’t use water, and then reinsert everything until you hear/feel it engage with the base. Don’t grind salt in this. that would ruin it. They make a salt grinder for that!