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Guys, here is a custom pipe I made for one of the forum members, Deepsouthrick. I don't churn out many pipes and this one took awhile but it is finally done. It is a large pipe, 9 inches in length technically a volcano. Richard, the fellow I made this for rebuilds custom cars so I wanted to incorporate some lines in the stem and the back of the pipe similar to his '57 chevy but a shape that also worked with the briar block we picked. This was a very nice large flame grain block I got from Steve Norse at Vermont Freehand. The stem is a green Cumberland. I love the way the staining turned out as it looks like lava streaming down the side of the volcano. Originally he wanted the pipe stained green similar to one I made for Politicalmonster (Erin) but the grain was just too amazing to go green, so to compromise I stained the burl green. Richard gave me free artistic reign which allowed me to get creative and deliver up this truly one of a kind pipe. Here are some pics of the pipe and Richard smoking it's inaugural smoke which was some 30 year old Captain Black.
