Elephant's foot shape/practice carve

[thesmokindragon]

Did this one from some scrap briar/had some sand-pits on one side, but gave me practice on freehand drills, and carve'in out one of the shapes I really like, whatcha all think...my first briar wood pipe carve, from block to smoke'in pipe in just under 2hrs ::

 

[pstlpkr]

I like it!

How did the drillin' come out?

 

[jasongone]

I really dig drilling it that way and leaving the burl on the front. I do think it would be a bit more pleasing to the eye if you did a little more sanding on the shank... just a bit thinner and rounder and i think it would flow very well.

all in all very cool looking.

 

[thesmokindragon]

Thanks Lawrence, as for the drill'in on this one, best to date that I have done...found that too much worry about it always screwed me up, so since I knew this one had some sand-pits on the block, I just had at it....POOF/perfect freehand drill

 

[bubbadreier]

I like it! It has a unique quality to it!

 

[shaintiques]

Yeah i like ittoo and that is also a Nice looking stem.

 

[spartan]

Other sides of the pipe are missing!!

 

[thesmokindragon]

thanks for all the feedback brothers, much appreciated...I put a 3/4" diam bowl on this one as I was planning on smoking flake-style Vs in it and I'm happy to report it is smoke'in very nice on break-in ::
I also got some great feedback/info from Mr. Balkovec on it about getting a can of No wax shallac and shallac the plateau area. I did this and now that plateau area really "pops", Thanks Mark!