The Magically Magnetic One-of-a-Kind Pipe Stand

[admin]

This is really cool. Check out The Magically Magnetic One-of-a-Kind Pipe Stand

 

[olderthandirt]

So simple, cool indeed!

So now there's gonna be a run on magnets and buttons (-;

 

[kcghost]

Cam does a lot of good things in the pipe community for which he goes unrecognized. He was a first year member of the GKCPC and has served in numerous official capacities for that organization. He is currently an officer in the UPCA.
He also has helped a number of organizations get their websites built using the Wild Apricot product. Specifically he is the webmaster for UPCA and the GKCPC. Any club wanting to create a website quickly and at a reasonable price couldn’t go wrong by contacting Cam.
He also has a new web site Pipe Show Online which looks like it is going to be a great place groups without sites to have a web presence. You should check it out at http://www.pipeshowonline.com

 

[uberam3rica]

thats pretty cool. i like how the pipes sit on the stand, it really displays your pipes

 

[jaybird]

cool

 

[markw4mms]

That's so cool!

 

[orko13]

yea cooll

 

[nathaniel]

Wait, so how does it stick to the magnet? something is installed INTO the heel of the pipe?

 

[admin]

@Nathaniel

Wait, so how does it stick to the magnet? something is installed INTO the heel of the pipe?

Yep. A little magnet gets placed into the bottom of the bowl. It's loose just sitting in there, so you dump it out when ready to smoke the pipe.

 

[nathaniel]

OOOOOOOHHHHH!!! I get it now. Thanks Kevin! Now that IS a good idea. I might have to try it out... at first I thought he meant actually drilling in a magnet or something, and I was trying to think why anyone would be so desperate for a cool pipe stand to seriously modify their new 1200 dollar dunhill! :crazy:

 

[ssjones]

Yep. A little magnet gets placed into the bottom of the bowl. It's loose just sitting in there, so you dump it out when ready to smoke the pipe.

Ah-ha, that is a much more aesthetic solution than Savinelli came up with for their 135th anniversary pipes. They added an extension to the bowl where a magnetic is permanently afixed. The pipe shape looks a little odd to me, a Poker or Cherrywood style pipe would have worked much better.

 

[olderthandirt]

The idea just fascinated me so I did some looking around. I see where Vaun has been selling 3 pipe stand that is similar,

Ouch at $75.
Then I found a site that sells the rare earth magnets, Applied Magnets, and they are really inexpensive.
This could be fun to play with.

 

[rickpal14]

I just found some countersunk disk magnets on the 'bay which would negate the need for the buttons, at least I think. I am ordering the setup today and will update when I have them in... sounds like some fun tinkering is in store soon!!! :lol:

 

[nemrod]

As olderthandirt said Vauen has been doing it for a long time.
ssjones: it's a cutty shape and I love it :P have got my eye on it but a bit pricey for me at the moment.

 

[tslex]

You could countersink the rare earth magnets in the base of the stand, then cover with a plug of the wood you removed (like you do on the deck of a yacht to cover the screw holes). If you carefully aligned the grain and finished, then you wouldn't even seen the spots where the magnets were, especially when the pipes were in place.
Now use a steel ball bearing in the pipe (no need for another magnet, no worry about polarity) and you have MAGIC.

 

[mp31guitar]

Kevin, That is a beautiful pipe rack.