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lohengrin

Lifer
Jun 16, 2015
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Today I want to show the pipes I made with bamboo. Since my uncle manufactures bamboo handles for famous handbags brands I can pick up this material from him.

The first is all bamboo except the briar inner bowl.
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This is a basket pipe. I added the bamboo and modified the stem
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The next is Big Bamboo. I didn't want to shorten the nice block of briar and the bowl became 12 cm. tall.
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Snaky Volcano:
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The last is Alabaster. I used an alabaster bell I buyed in Volterra, Tuscany, where there are mines with this kind of stone. The inner bowl is briar.
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aldecaker

Lifer
Feb 13, 2015
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Those are very nice pipes. I especially like the converted basket pipe and Big Bamboo. The bamboo look is really growing on me lately. The snake? Too far from my stodgy old ideas of what a pipe should look like, but excellent execution nonetheless. Someone will see it and simply have to have it, I bet.

 

jkrug

Lifer
Jan 23, 2015
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Very nice! The alabaster bell pipe is very unique and quite pretty to look at. :puffy:

 

wirtsleg

Lurker
Aug 12, 2015
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these are nice looking, the bamboo is very unique, first ones i've seen like this, good job :)

 

jmatt

Part of the Furniture Now
Aug 25, 2014
770
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I love the first one. Have any top-down pics showing the inner briar bowl?

 

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
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I don't think it is easy to integrate bamboo into other materials to make a unified looking pipe, but these are done really well. I think you get the stain on the briar right, so it melds to some degree with the bamboo.

 
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