My latest pipe. Made this for a friend of mine that is a missionary in Ukraine. He had a similar pipe back in the day, but gave it away when he originally went on the mission field. He sent me a pic and I recreated it with artistic license of course. The tamper is cut from the same block. The cool thing about this pipe is that I drilled it freehand. First time I've ever done that and I never thought I would be able to. For those of you who don't know. Normally I put the briar block in a chuck on the lathe and the block itself spins, then I push a stationary drill bit into the block. But this block was too big to fit into the chuck so I held the block in my hand and pushed it onto a spinning bit. The drill came out perfect. This is a big personal accomplishment. This pipe is a whopper this is a huge pipe. 7 inches long, 3 tall, with a bowl depth of 2 inches.
