Making A Lovat Tomato Fancy

[Ziggywm]

This was my Thanksgiving time project for a friend who wanted it for a girlfriend. She liked long stem colorful pipes. So I turned a tomato that took advantage of the Birdseye grain a d would leave a little briar bark on top. Because I turned the briar on its side for turning the bowl it didn't leave me much of a shank, so I lathe a stem in Yellowheart, a very hard tropical wood. Finally I created a military mount and hand cut a green lucien bit. My friend decided he didn't want the pipe, so I am thinking about selling it.

 

[Kingsley]

Absolutely beautiful piece, I’m sure someone here would be interested.

 

[canucklehead]

Good job man, very unique pipe.??

 

[cshubhra]

Very nice ?

 

[Ziggywm]

Thanks for the kind comments. Along with woodworking its been a 50 year hobby. I made my first pipe from a piece of Applewood in 1970. It split. I thought about doing it for a living in 1975 along with a B&M store, but graduate school called to me, along with teaching at the University level and an AF career. Woodworking keeps me out of the bars - sometimes ?.