Smio Satou Smooth Bent Pot with Tsuishu

[ejames]

Beautiful !

 

[bigpond]

Beautiful pipe Peck.

Same to you Fishnbanjo. I really love that shape. He made perfect use of that block. It's rare to see such harmony.
Take a peek at Satou process:
http://home.comcast.net/~student_of_pipes/exhibits/japan07/page_06.htm

 

[peckinpahhombre]

Have you been hunting one of these for that long or was it a spur of the moment purchase?

Since Chicago.
bigpond, many thanks for that link. I had not seen that one before.

 

[peckinpahhombre]

In that thread that bigpond posted, there is this statement:

Satou-san has developed his own special chuck which allows him to drill both the tobacco chamber and the air hole with one setup.

I don't get how this is even possible. Can someone explain this to a dull-whitted guy who can barely change a lightbulb?

 

[tbradsim1]

Beautiful pictures Bigpond and Peck such a fine pipe, piece of Art.

 

[fishnbanjo]

Peck,

It would need to be a compound setup with either a jig fixture that fits a certain type of bowl and stem configuration then the chamber is bored with a certain depth either by the use of mechanical stops or perhaps a CNC milling machine, same idea with the drill but neither will want to meet at the same time. I imagine the drill completes the stem and retracts and the bore completes cleaning up the stem residue leaving a clean bore. Not sure how a bent stem could utilize this system as I have no experience with flexible drills of that ilk.

banjo

 

[halfy]

Peck, how does it smoke? And would you give some input about his particular engineering characters?

 

[pipestud]

Well, halfty, this thread you resurrected is two years old, so, old Peck has had plenty if time, I reckon, to give you his thoughts on what it smokes like.

 

[jayski]

That is an amazing pipe! Congratulations on the newly acquired piece of art.