Made Pipe #20, Bluebeard

[mrbigglesworth]

That is beautiful! Nice grain and nice choice of stem! Blue is my favorite color and I have been wanting a pipe in blue. :clap:

 

[mrbigglesworth]

Are you selling this pipe? PM sent.

 

[lohengrin]

a really good work, and after our exchange of opinions about curves on the other thread, I can better appreciate how the curve flows from the shank to the stem in this pipe.

 

[weezell]

Very,very nice! You have a talent my friend...

 

[stickframer]

The grain shows through nicely. Great flow to it, too.

 

[carver]

It's really nice looking !

I have a little question though.

You used blue stain, obvioulsy. But did you cover it with some sort of varnish or just stained and polished ?

Thanks for the answer, I am myself struggling with stains.

 

[cmclark]

Very pretty looking pipe man. The heat gun bend came out nice. Whole thing has good flow.

 

[clickklick]

carver - normally you need to seal the stain. from what I've gathered from other pipe makers and via pipemakersforum this is usually done with a shellac or other finishing oil.
I personally used a shellac cut with denatured alcohol, at least 50/50 but I tend to use more DNA than shellac so mine is probably more like 30/70. You then need to apply a very thin coat over your finish stain. Let it dry for 24 hours and then start your buffing process.
You can test to see if you are doing it well by warming the pipe up and rubbing it, you don't want any of the stain color to rubb off into your hand or paper towel. Also, you will know if you need to let the pipe sit longer before buffing it you tend to get a lot of buffing fluff sticking to the finish when you are buffing.
There are a hundred ways to finish the pipe and usually everyone finds a technique that works for them. But the above is what I've done with success so far.

 

[disinformatique]

I would love to see a golden contrast from you.

 

[carver]

@clickclick

I looked shellac up because I wasn't sure what it was. So from what I've gathered, it's a kind of resin, right?

You mix it with DNA to make it liquid then apply a thin coat on the pipe.

I'll try to a hand on some over here and give it a shot.

I have to say, I am pretty excited because I kinda stopped using stains for the reason that I couldn't fix it on the pipe.

Thanks for the advice. I'll keep you posted how it goes.

 

[clickklick]

Shellac is basically bug excrement.
Keep me posted!