Made an All Briar Pipe: Kazaguruma

[lohengrin]

These are the first pictures of my last pipe, sanded with micro-mesh 12000 and still to be polished with carnauba wax.

You will understand why I choosed this japanese name when i'll post the next pictures after finished.

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

Very nice! You don't see a lot of briar stems. Well done :clap:

 

[mortonbriar]

Lovely! was it the same piece of wood, or did you use another piece and match grain pattern?
Isaac

 

[hmhaines]

Wonderful pipe. The stem is intriguing, can't wait to see the pipe finished!

 

[cossackjack]

Exquisite. Beautiful grain.

@lohengren, you have the eye & the touch.

 

[lohengrin]

Thanks everybody for the nice words.
mortonbriar: this is one piece of wood. I drilled just two holes: 25 mm. diameter for the chamber and 2,8 mm. for the airhole,

 

[jacks6]

Wow!

 

[weezell]

Very, VERY, nice! :clap: ...

 

[pappap]

nice pipe very well made

 

[ejames]

Nice ! I like the shape and colors !!

 

[hugodrax]

Windmill, you say. Very, very interesting pipe.

 

[hextor]

wow!! thats one beautiful pice, love the grain, how did you manage to get the two colors.

 

[dottiewarden]

Brilliant work!

 

[lohengrin]

Thank you sirs.I appreciate your words, but I hope you're not misleaded by these first images. You could change your opinion when you'll see the other pictures!

 

[lohengrin]

I had this fore cut big block of briar:

At the beginning I was thinking to make a freehand canadian, but since the stem portion was long enough I decided to try and manufacture a one piece freehand pipe.

Later, reflecting that it would not have been a great fun in carving a "normal" frehand, I studied another shape whose main function should have been to lighten the weight of a bowl that I wanted to keep as large as possible.

So I started drilling a wide chamber hole 25 mm. large:

After sanding with 120 grit:

Grit 220:

Staining:

 

[lohengrin]

Staining:

 

[lohengrin]

When my wife saw the pipe she said: "It looks like a kazaguruma" (japanese word for the origami windmill) and I decided to keep this name for the pipe.

 

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