I've been trying to get a little time in the shop lately and always come up with a reason I can't. Well today a buddy and fellow pipe maker came over and we played.
He drilled a few blocks, which he can finish at home.
While he did that, I worked on a stem I've been making for one pipe and also drilled and shaped, or tryed too, a pipe that was to be a commission.
The guy wants a Freehand style pipe with Plateaux on the rim and shank end. I picked a block that looked like it had pretty good grain and drew my preliminary shape on the block.
I then drew my airway and chamber lines for drilling and chucked the block in the jaws and did my drilling. I like to countersink the stem into the shank on my plateaux shanked pipes. Looks cleaner and is stronger than just sticking the tenon in the mortise.
All was going well in the shaping of the pipe to make the shape I had drawn. Then when I was just about to the shape I wanted I hit a big long fissure. So with this in mind, I began reshaping and when I got that fissure out of the way and was just about happy with the shape I now had, I hit another on the side and a crack on the bottom. There fore, this pipe will not be going anywhere. I am happy with the shape of the finished pipe and I'll be putting a stem on it and keeping it for myself. I'll smoke it, but doubt with the crack that it will last long. It's a shame too, because this pipe has some nice grain.
Any way you look at this pipe you'll see that it has different angles and looks kind of droopy. I call it my "Drunk Poker" What do you all think?
He drilled a few blocks, which he can finish at home.
While he did that, I worked on a stem I've been making for one pipe and also drilled and shaped, or tryed too, a pipe that was to be a commission.
The guy wants a Freehand style pipe with Plateaux on the rim and shank end. I picked a block that looked like it had pretty good grain and drew my preliminary shape on the block.
I then drew my airway and chamber lines for drilling and chucked the block in the jaws and did my drilling. I like to countersink the stem into the shank on my plateaux shanked pipes. Looks cleaner and is stronger than just sticking the tenon in the mortise.
All was going well in the shaping of the pipe to make the shape I had drawn. Then when I was just about to the shape I wanted I hit a big long fissure. So with this in mind, I began reshaping and when I got that fissure out of the way and was just about happy with the shape I now had, I hit another on the side and a crack on the bottom. There fore, this pipe will not be going anywhere. I am happy with the shape of the finished pipe and I'll be putting a stem on it and keeping it for myself. I'll smoke it, but doubt with the crack that it will last long. It's a shame too, because this pipe has some nice grain.
Any way you look at this pipe you'll see that it has different angles and looks kind of droopy. I call it my "Drunk Poker" What do you all think?
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