My First Pipe Kit...Ugh!

[mso489]

It's a judgement call, if you want to spend the time hewing down the pipe so it has better shaping, despite the flaw, and hope it works out, or not. You could learn some valuable techniques for working briar in the process even if the flaw eventually makes the pipe short-lived. But it is an investment of time.

 

[oldmansmoking]

Great shame, mine had a few pits but turned out OK.

Used rasps and sand paper took a week to do.

 

[scloyd]

@oldmansmoking Looks nice...good job!

 

[bnichols23]

Agreed, scl. I've seen artisan pipes that didn't look that good.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Let's blow that up a bit.

 

[rmpeeps]

My first kit pipe from 1998. Living in deep South Texas at the time so I used Prickly Pear juice to stain the pipe. It’s still unsmoked; for some reason I just can’t. I carved 4 more over the years for smoking. All the pre-drilled kits were from Tinsky and pits, splits, and cavities were minor.

No 1a

No 1b

 

[scloyd]

@rmpeeps Very nice!

 

[jpmcwjr]

Nice work!! Rather than links, you can embed the photo in the post; saves others time.....

Once your photos are on a photo hosting site (such as Imgur.com; Postimage; Dropbox, etc. Photobucket), or on virtually any site, such as eBay, Amazon, you-name-it, select the full sized image, then Control-click (Mac) or Right-click (Windows) on the image itself, then choose copy image location. Now paste that URL (the full web address, which should end in .jpg) into the IMG box in the reply window of the thread you're posting to.
The site's album is also a good choice.