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  1. pentangle

    Forum Become Slow To Me

    "The good news is that Pipes Magazine had over 10,000 unique visitors per day for the last three days straight. December was a new traffic record, and it looks like January may be another record" nice to hear Kevin
  2. pentangle

    Forum Become Slow To Me

    gess forum server needs to be upgraded due to the traffic
  3. pentangle

    Life Is Good!

    live as you could die today and think as you'll never die
  4. pentangle

    Forum Become Slow To Me

    well it's only question of patience at all :-)
  5. pentangle

    Dan Tobacco "Old Ironsides"

    Old ironsides is my fav tobacco, easy to find here in Italy but much more expensive than in Usa, about 20-22 dollars for a 50 gr tin
  6. pentangle

    Forum Become Slow To Me

    Well, from some weeks the forum is very slow to me on opening pages and threads.Does that happen to somebody else too?
  7. pentangle

    Sharing another pipe I made

    Excellent work my friend and briar quality looks nice with some flame grain and bird eyes.Stain and wax meet the general quality .Bravo! Maurizio
  8. pentangle

    Wood Expert needed

    a band on a stem? Better change the stem with a new one with or without wood insert
  9. pentangle

    Perhaps I Will Begin To Sell My Free Hand Pipes Part Two

    yes right! Just got some offers, in particular on pipe n°3 a guy did a very reasonable offer.I haven't responded to him till now because don't want to sell one pipe, just want to sell all even the monetary result whould be not right enough,but simply near correct expectations.To sell a pipe...
  10. pentangle

    Wood Expert needed

    To my opinion a full lucite stem will give better look and a teflon/delrin tenon will ensure total safe to the shank Maurizio
  11. pentangle

    Perhaps I Will Begin To Sell My Free Hand Pipes Part Two

    That for example it's impossible to find ready on the market
  12. pentangle

    Perhaps I Will Begin To Sell My Free Hand Pipes Part Two

    1)briar comes from Calabria usually, sometime from Tuscany and sometime from Liguria .Always Italian briar 2)I drill myself the ebauchon and the plateau of course.If I want to obtain the better grain and the shape i have in mind from a briar block it's necessay to drill it in the exact...
  13. pentangle

    Life Is Good!

    Seems that winter will not arrive also here in Italy.Tomorrow in the early morning i will go to make pics to Byrds , probably i will see also some butterfly..........in january 8O Maurizio
  14. pentangle

    Perhaps I Will Begin To Sell My Free Hand Pipes Part Two

    " I like the third one. What do you think the price should be?" really don't know,i try to understand with the help of the forum Maurizio
  15. pentangle

    Perhaps I Will Begin To Sell My Free Hand Pipes Part Two

    Yesterday: "Yes maybe, or maybe not.Tomorrow I will post some pic of a new pipe I'm carving.A Danish styled giant size.No price I decided to ask for it.Symply If someone is interested will send me a private message with an offer.Maybe I will accept maybe not but it will remains a secret from...
  16. pentangle

    Perhaps I Will Begin To Sell My Free Hand Pipes

    I'm working on that new pipe from yesterday, shape is finished and now is sanded too.Tomorrow I have to apply the first stain, then sand and apply the final stain and at finally apply marks and buffing,and of course "she" needs a stem .Guess in 4-5 more hours will be finished.The total of the...
  17. pentangle

    Perhaps I Will Begin To Sell My Free Hand Pipes

    Yes maybe, or maybe not.Tomorrow I will post some pic of a new pipe I'm carving.A Danish styled giant size.No price I decided to ask for it.Symply If someone is interested will send me a private message with an offer.Maybe I will accept maybe not but it will remains a secret from us.Nobody will...
  18. pentangle

    Experimenting with New Camera

    That is an f16 image i made with a d300s+sigma 180 mm macro sorry for the big size, just to see no diffraction Maurizio
  19. pentangle

    Local purchase vs online cost

    4$ for 60 miles? How much cost the gasoline there in Usa?
  20. pentangle

    My latest attempt at pipe making.

    "When my budget allows I want to try my hand at hand cut stems. Need a few more tools for the lathe and would like to pick up a good 1" belt sander,which would save a lot of wear and tear on my hands!" That will not help you a lot James.For corners and curves you'll always use sand paper with...