Hand made tamper.

[RustiePyles CPG]

In among the WDC pipe repair kit parts was a 1940’s (wartime production) SM Frank Medico Mountain Briar cigarette holder barrel with the tenon busted off in it. It didn’t look like had been used much if at all. Now I collect WWII era mountain briar/mountain laurel pipes so I was kinda pleased to find it. But it was missing all it parts so I thought about what I could make out of it and I settled on a tamper.

 

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Extracting the broken tenon.

 

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Turning an acrylic plug for the top (tenon end) I cut my acrylic from 1” thick sheet stock, so I end up with square blanks. I have use a two jaw pen chuck to rough it out round to fit in a three jaw chuck.

 

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Turning the tamp end.

 

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Assembly.

 

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[Kobold]

That came out great!

 

[didimauw]

What an awesome idea, and great craftsmanship! And a straight meer Apple, is my favorite pipe. What brand is yours? It's lovely.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

I want one!

Unrelated mostly but it's bothering me - I've "temporarily misplaced" my favorite tamper for the third time in about 4 weeks. I'm going to give it a stern talking to when it decides to show up.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Very cool, great workmanship and it looks awesome!

 

[didimauw]

I want one!

Unrelated mostly but it's bothering me - I've "temporarily misplaced" my favorite tamper for the third time in about 4 weeks. I'm going to give it a stern talking to when it decides to show up.

My favorite old man tamper took a vacation a few months ago. Sick of stepping on hot coals all day. Guess I'd need a break too. Hope he comes back soon!

 

[bluegrassbrian]

My favorite old man tamper took a vacation a few months ago. Sick of stepping on hot coals all day. Guess I'd need a break too. Hope he comes back soon!

It's one of those Vauen jobs that telescopes. I bout it at Strauss in Florence Ky several years ago and it's just been a super workhorse of a tamper. If it never returns I'll probably buy another one.

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

What an awesome idea, and great craftsmanship! And a straight meer Apple, is my favorite pipe. What brand is yours? It's lovely.

It’s a Paykoc, it’s a bit on the heavy/dense side and coloring VERY slowly but it’s a great smoker. I put the band on on it.

 

[trouttimes]

You definitely have skills. Very nice.

 

[jttnk]

Cool piece, nice work on bringing it to life.

 

[Bassman65]

Looks fantastic! Nice job

 

[reloader]

Very nice! What a great idea, and you did an outstanding job.

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

Excellent work. It came out great!

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

Tamper shown with a couple of WWII briar shortage pipes made sometime between 1941-43. It’s had to say if these are manzanita or mountain laurel. Since they’ve had their “grain” painted on. The unpainted pipe is a manzanita for sure, it’s a Weber Coolmore. The other is a WDC Milano Hession Guard, it’s unsmoked.