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  1. yachtexplorer

    Show Off Your Straight Billiards Here!

    Here is a straight one, more of a Canadian, my most recent creation
  2. yachtexplorer

    Showoff Your Dunhill Pipes Here!

    Boxed set of 1950 shells with innnertubes 1927 pencil shank bulldog 1950 LB 1950 banker 1950 foursquare R 1985 Diplomat 1940 Featherweight (22 gram) billiard
  3. yachtexplorer

    Show Off Your Canadians Here!

    Lower left Hurricane by Nutt of England
  4. yachtexplorer

    Question: Refinishing Bowl Exterior?

    I have been able to achieve a really nice satin finish on pipes by sanding to a 1500 grit profile and then applying three or four coats of teak oil. You put it on with a rag and wipe off the excess after five minutes, then repeat five or six hours later. It darkens the color slightly and...
  5. yachtexplorer

    St. Louis Pipe Show - Who Will Be There?

    I will. It is a one day show on Saturday the 15th. I am arriving in St. Louis on Thursday and dining with some friends I haven't seen in a long time. Looking forward to the show and seeing some of my pipe buddies. I won't have a table as I am not yet selling my pipes but will have some on...
  6. yachtexplorer

    When Does a Dublin Become a Horn?

    I think a horn can be thinwalled enough to cross into Zulu territory. What would distinguish it for me would be a lack of break between the bowl and shank but rather a continuous flow between the two. With that distinction a zulu, belge, woodsman or yacht bowl could be executed as a horn if...
  7. yachtexplorer

    When Does a Dublin Become a Horn?

    For me, a horn has a constant flowing bottom lines from the stem to the rim.
  8. yachtexplorer

    How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Pipe

    It is already flattened on the bottom to make it sit nicely. Sand 2mm more off the bottom, making sure it stay symmetrical and that guys defacing will be gone.
  9. yachtexplorer

    Carving pipes from scratch

    Be careful. Some woods are toxic...like cedar which is used to keep insects away and should always be sanded with a respirator on. Other woods just don't taste good, are unstable (prone to checks and warping), burn out too quickly or are just plain plain and boring to look at. There is a...
  10. yachtexplorer

    Cob or Briar? W/hy not both?

    Someone on another board suggested I put a white dot on the stem. I kind of liked the idea but doing so would be putting another logo on my work. So I picked up some 2.5mm dots of abalone and inlayed that on the stem. I like the look so much I am thinking of applying this little bit of sea...
  11. yachtexplorer

    Softy Bits question

    I have sharp teeth and like to clench, thus i tend to really mar my bits. If you leave softies on vulacnite long enough they will definitely leave an olive green area with a sharp line behind the will be a real pain in the kiester to get out. I use food grade heat shrink tubing as it will...
  12. yachtexplorer

    That Pipe is Supposed to Look Like What?

    Well a flower is the sexy part of the plant so what do you expect?
  13. yachtexplorer

    Cob or Briar? W/hy not both?

    I just finished a pipe modeled after a Missouri Meerschaum using Briar from Mimmo in Italy, a delrin tenon and black juma (food grade, thermoset plastic) for the stem. It is 5.75 inches long and weighs 34 grams. Also, unlike a true cob, the bowl and shank are one piece. It is a properly drilled...
  14. yachtexplorer

    Billiard 2nd Chamber Pipes

    I have been experimenting with 2nd chamber pipes that more closely resemble conventional pipes. Most have been bent, Danish-style freehands. Recently I took a stab at closely following the lines on my 1950 Dunhill LB Shell (the dark blasted on in the photos)and rendering them with a 1/2"...
  15. yachtexplorer

    What Is Your Most Eyecatching Pipe?

    Calabash by Sergey Cherepanov
  16. yachtexplorer

    Show Off Your Tsuge's Here!

    Ikebana Whale
  17. yachtexplorer

    Favorite Current Day Authors

    Arturo Perez Reverte Wilbur Smith Geraldine Brooks Malcolm Gladwell Stephen Pinker James Nelson
  18. yachtexplorer

    Briar Figurals

    This is a halibut pipe I made Here is my Orca/Killer Whale
  19. yachtexplorer

    Briar Figurals

    Here is a link to my collection of SEA CREATURE PIPES These are not the vintage French figurals but rather pipe I have commissioned by artisans from Russia to New Zealand.
  20. yachtexplorer

    What Is Your Most Eyecatching Pipe?

    Harpooned Char on a wave of soapstone by Michael Parks
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