How to stamp a pipe?

[gamxiaoyuan]

I just began to make pipes. Could someone share how to stamp?

Thanks a lot.

 

[newbroom]

You can use a golf tee, or a clothes pin, a mini screwdriver, or your finger. Just lightly tap your ash with one of these.
OH!?!....you said stamp....my bad.

 

[bluesmk]

Eric,

If you are new to pipemaking,you should sign up on this forum, where there is a wealth of information:

http://www.pipemakersforum.com/forum/index.php

Dan

Gabrieli Pipes ::

 

[zack24]

+1 What Dan said- check out Pipemakers forum….You've never experienced the depths of despair until you're stamping pipes early one morning before leaving for a pipe show and you completely destroy the pipe by either double stamping, mis-stamping, or breaking the pipe….
The short version of how stamping is done is by using a metal stamp from an engraving company- I used Buckeye Engraving. Not sure I would recommend my technique- I use a 3lb hammer to tap the stamp while Greta holds the pipe in place. I'll be redesigning the stamp to one that I can use by heating the stamp and just using hand pressure to imprint…

 

[gamxiaoyuan]

Tks a lot my pals.

 

[condorlover1]

You put the pipe on the floor and bring your boot sharply down on the pipe!

 

[mso489]

One carver I know scratches name and date on there with what looks like an awl and puts on a little

dark stain to make it show. Basic but efficient. It's truly a signed work.

 

[frank13]

You could try a trophy shop, if they have a laser engraver. There are online folks who offer the service, as well.

 

[shaintiques]

I put the stamps In a vise and then press and roll the pipe over it.

 

[zekest]

Use an unregulated Dremel and diamond pointy bit or dental drill.

 

[gamxiaoyuan]

Does simply burn the iron stamp very hot and then press it on the pipe work?

 

[mso489]

Frankenstein, I thought immediately of laser technology too, but I'm not sure how expensive it is.

If there are shops that do laser engraving on a per-item basis, or in lots, or whatever, that might

work. Seems like a pipe carver could get name, year, and maybe city/country of origin on there,

highly legible and fairly small, with no problem. It's the technology for the job, if it is easily accessible.

 

[zack24]

@newbie

Will we see you at the Chicago show in May? Anyone and everyone will be there. Good luck with your pipe stamping endeavors.

Newbie, you must have missed Rule # 342- You're not allowed to write snarky posts until you have achieved senior status….

 

[shaintiques]

+1 Zack. Snarky is an understatement. what gives? Asking questions is what this place is about. Doesn't matter his smoking habits. How about instead of attacking you just answer the question at hand. Lots of new guys try their hand at pipe making. It is a fun and rewarding experience.

 

[torque]

That along with some of the very basic brand new to smoking a pipe type of questions you have asked makes me wonder if right now you should be asking about how to stamp a pipe since you want to now make pipes or if you should instead be asking more and more and more questions about how to actually smoke a pipe and learn what pipes are actually all about but then I might be wrong and you might be the next and best Chinese wood shaper in all of Asia.

At the risk of sounding a little snarky myself, this might just be the single longest run-on sentence I have ever seen. I mean ever. In my whole life.

 

[gamxiaoyuan]

Well. I admit I'm not a senior pipe smoker. Thanks Torque, Zack24 and Shaintiques for being supportive.

 

[tbradsim1]

Eric you may not be a senior pipe smoker but you deserve our support and respect, ask anything you want this is what this forum is about, not to belittle, make fun of a fellow piper. I can't make a pipe, I can only smoke them, so I"m pretty inexperienced as some of our fellow members who are so crafty and make their own pipes. I salute them. Whatever support you need Eric we are here.

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

One of the great things about this forum, is most of the members generally care about helping their fellow pipers achieve whatever it is they want to achieve. Of course if most members on this forum made comments like some of our newer members do, this forum would have died a long time ago. Just saying.

 

[toby67]

One of the great things about this forum, is most of the members generally care about helping their fellow pipers achieve whatever it is they want to achieve. Of course if most members on this forum made comments like some of our newer members do, this forum would have died a long time ago. Just saying.

Well said Anthony, pity it's not all members, I hate seeing someone asking a genuine question only to be laughed at between the lines in other members comments.
New or old, junior or senior .. Everyone deserves respect and isn't that a rule of this forum ???

 

[cortezattic]

I don't make pipes, but I have often wondered about this too.

It seems to me that the shank should have some internal support,

like a metal rod, to prevent the stamp from crushing it.