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lohengrin

Lifer
Jun 16, 2015
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Thanks everybody for the nice words about my pipe holders. Today I'll show my first pipes.
This is the semifinished pipe block I used:
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I decided to make a tulip shape pipe and after hours of work I understood that as a beginner I had to choose an easier work. Anyway this is the result:

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I liked it, but going on in manifacturing pipes I understood it had lot of faults.
For an easier work I used this rough pipe:
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and made an "à la coque" egg:
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I coloured and polished only the shank and I kept a rough finishing for the bowl. The white part is painted with enamel, the removable yolk is wood.
The third pipe I want to show is the easier for a pipemaker: a freehand. I didn't drill the holes by myself yet so I used this:
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I liked Poul Winslow freehands, but since I could not buy one I made this:
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At the moment I didn't understand the mistake I made, I learned it afterwards from Tom Eltang who opened my eyes on a different way to build pipes. But this is another story.

 

wolfe64

Starting to Get Obsessed
May 24, 2015
183
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Ontario Canada
Nice work on the pipes !!

After seeing all these pipes being made by you and others here I have put this on my list of things I want to do.
Mark

 

lohengrin

Lifer
Jun 16, 2015
1,198
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Hi Mark,

Thank you.

You are right, it's really amusing and not too much difficult. You just need a little bit of perseverance, but pipesmokers usually have it!

 
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