[GENTLEMAN OF THE CHARCOAL]

Is brass absolutely non sparking?
Thanks..

[JCT]

Yes. That's why most BP accessories are brass. As far as milling media, hardened lead is best, but some use ceramic and brass should work too, but would be expensive.
Some people mill BP with nickels too!

[GENTLEMAN OF THE CHARCOAL]

JCT, thanks. I'm not really planning on grinding any media in the forseeable future. I just decided to try and get the brass mortar and pestle later on. (It's unavailable right now) The brass one won't absorb as readily as the wood one will.
Just in case something bad happens someday I thought it would be nice to have one that wouldn't wear out very quickly.
I have a Bamboo wood one on the way now.
I like that site Scrat sent me to. They sell all sort's of kitchen applicances that are non electric.
Of course the Bamboo wood one will probably last for years and years in it's own right.
I was already real sure that brass wouldn't spark (gasoline pumps, lanterns, flask spouts etc.) but I wanted to read someone on this thread say it anyway....
ADD ON...Bamboo is a good, hard wood. Back during the days when Jim Bowie and them lived down in those swamps almost everyone made their knives out of Bamboo wood. I made one when I was 14 years old after reading a book about Bowie. They get sharp as a razor blade and will skin a squirrel or rabbit or slit open a catfish's belly as good as anything you'vd ever seen. Of course I fire hardened it. I had read about that in one of my brother's Tarzan books.
Well, anyway, thank's for coming up here....