Semi-New Pipe maker

[Sgetz]

Welcome from Durham in the UK

 

[Sigmund]

Welcome from France. Looking forward to seeing your work.

 

[auskip07]

Welcome, looking forward to seeing your work

 

[kbussell]

Welcome! From Highlands Ranch, Colorado.

 

[loucurr]

Here is a batch that I assisted in. I did most of the finishing and buffing but was shown the process of making them while doing a little bit to try my hand at it. Still working on acquiring some equipment.

(Picture deleted per the rules, please review them!) Thank you-- didimauw

This picture was taken before buffing.

 

[Jacob74]

 

[auskip07]

Here is a batch that I assisted in. I did most of the finishing and buffing but was shown the process of making them while doing a little bit to try my hand at it. Still working on acquiring some equipment.

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This picture was taken before buffing.

Very Savinelli Bruna esk. Do you know if these are for sale online?

 

[rmcnabb]

Welcome! Learn all you can from your mentor and use it to channel your own vision.

 

[trouttimes]

Welcome from Alabama.

 

[Mortamyhr]

Hello from Nashville!

 

[MRW]

I and a woodturner and have made a few pipes on the lathe...nothing great. I have an older gentleman who has started to mentor me in the pipe making business as he is getting older and does not know how much longer he will be able to do it. I am looking forward to see what information this forum has to offer.

Hello and welcome to the Forum from Deep in the Heart of Texas. You will find this site to be informative and the members insightful (and at times, most entertaining). Enjoy your stay!

 

[WVOldFart]

Hello and welcome from West Virginia.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Here is a batch that I assisted in. I did most of the finishing and buffing but was shown the process of making them while doing a little bit to try my hand at it. Still working on acquiring some equipment.

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This picture was taken before buffing.

Hard to make out much. A close up of one or two pipes would do the trick. Also, may I add that unless you are using manual exposure and focus, shooting dark objects on light background means photo is under exposed.

 

[loucurr]

Hard to make out much. A close up of one or two pipes would do the trick. Also, may I add that unless you are using manual exposure and focus, shooting dark objects on light background means photo is under exposed.

Thanks for the advice. I will get a close up of the one that I kept form myself out of the batch.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Very good! The white background comment still applies; the detail of the pipe is lost.

 

[loucurr]

Very good! The white background comment still applies; the detail of the pipe is lost.

What kind of background should I use?

 

[jpmcwjr]

Anything dark. And have the light coming from behind the camera, and from the side if possible. Good luck!

 

[loucurr]

Thanks. I thought that with a pipe being dark that a lighter background would be better. I will have to dig out my other backgrounds to my light box.

 

[auskip07]

Thanks. I thought that with a pipe being dark that a lighter background would be better. I will have to dig out my other backgrounds to my light box.

you want contrast but too much mutes the details. Where are these pipes sold?

 

[loucurr]

you want contrast but too much mutes the details. Where are these pipes sold?

I am not selling them yet until I get the full process going.