Show Off Your Kaywoodie Pipes
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Lovely shape and very elegant. I’m sure someone will have good advice on filling that missing cloverleaf.
I don’t know if this is the right thread but does anyone know the history of the Greywoodie pipes, how they started, etc.?
I suspect @crashthegrey could tell you, he's the proprietor of Greywoodie.
I'm going to use white epoxy unless I hear about something better
I keep a few old busted stems around to harvest emblems out of. But otherwise, white epoxy or white enamel paint. Either way let it cure for WAY longer than you think you need to before working it back flat and sanding it.
After researching all I could find, I’m pretty sure you’re correct, and believe that what I’ve got is a second gen Drinkless Pup. If it didn’t have a pretty good sized sand pit right in the “IMPORTED BRIAR” stamp on shank it may have rated higher than a Drinkless grade.
This image from the oft-referenced 1936 is spot on for the shape and fitment.
Regardless, I’m enjoying it immensely and it’s a great smoker.
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Been working on cleaning up this KBB Yello-Bole with a beautiful stem! Can’t wait to smoke it. The unique shank and the stem are two favorite parts. Based on the info in another thread I think it’s in the 1932-1940s. 
HA d many over the years, down to just one, what I assume to be a Brown University 1940 Class Pipe, although Pipedia's article on class pipes by Brian Robertson shows the 1940 Brown pipe as a billiard, mine is a Canadian. Drinkless, Algerian Briar, Suntan. Maybe they had different shapes offered each year?
Sorry for the delay. Life has been a bit crazy. Greywoodie pipes started life in October of 2022. I was a handmade pipe maker, still am sometimes, under nQa Pipes. But Greywoodie the retail company started carrying Kaywoodie pipes, I launched in April of 2019. Spending so much time at the Kaywoodie factory, I decided to learn the age old art of production pipes from Bill Feuerbach, the fourth generation owner of Kaywoodie. All of my materials were shared with Kaywoodie, and I started them in the Kaywoodie factory and then brought them home to finish in my shop, learning how Bill performed each step. So I kept making and carrying the Greywoodie line of pipes in addition to nQa and Kaywoodie pipes.
Thats very interesting. I would love to learn how to carve pipes. Any wisdom on how to start or where to look for instructions?
I started with hobby blocks like most. Then I went to pipe shows and befriended makers. I went to NC to train with Jim Brown of Heisenberg Pipes, and PA to learn some from Tony Warner. Then Time Thorpe. Then when I became friends with Bill we talked shop and I got to use all of the old equipment. I bought used equipment from pipe makers upgrading their own. It just takes a lot of time and patience. And inserting yourself into other people's lives. Lol.
A ton of these were made for different schools. There were likely a few shapes available. They are super cool.
Only nine or ten of those in existence. I kept number zero. Those are from the first release, numbered 1 to 50 but a few shapes. I released them at the first Capitaland Pipe show.
Oh wow! I was happy to know it was 1/50 but even sweeter to know it’s actually 1/10.
What were the other shapes?
Yeah, Bill was short on lovat stems so I was only able to do a few. If I recall correctly, chimneys and billiards. Actually, I may even have a picture.