I have smoked pipes off and on for over fifty years. I a Cabinetmaker by trade and have been doing that as long as I have smoked pipes. I'm always looking for a new tobacco but have several regular tobaccos on hand. Being a Cabinetmaker obviously puts me close to wood and I do a lot of repair on wood projects. Pipes are a new medium that have their challenges but that is something I love and how to figure out a project is always the big one. I look forward to this new site and all of the things each individual brings to the bench and ways we help one another. Looking forward to all that comes this ways.
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Ah yes pipe racks. After having not smoked my pipes for several years (not sure how that happened) I picked it back up like I'd never stopped. I had a two pipe stand and needed more so since I'm a cabinet maker for about 46 years I set about to make one or two or three. I drew up one but the geometry wan't quite right so I had to redraw it so it worked. Then I got a couple more pipes and needed bigger and so on. The one I settled on was an octagon. The problem I had was since my enthusiasim was piqued and I'd think well lets try this or that. I realized I had to settle on one for now and leave the rest on paper. I'm lucky to have just about every wood working tool imaginable so the machining part was pretty much straight forward. I wanted to add some flair to it so I grabbed up a couple ideas from past wood projects (I cad almost everything before I build so drawings abound). I haven't tried to post any pics on this site so I'm going to need to learn that so I can show what I'm talking about.
Welcome form Sydney, Australia.
Do show some of your projects - completed or on the drawing board.
One of my sons is an industrial designer, so I do understand that between the idea and the completed project goes a lot of thought, sketches and working models, not mentioning time and effort.
Do show some of your projects - completed or on the drawing board.
One of my sons is an industrial designer, so I do understand that between the idea and the completed project goes a lot of thought, sketches and working models, not mentioning time and effort.
You could check out our website woodspecialties.biz. It not all we've done over the years but it show different genres.
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