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mikejungle wrote:. . . I spent considerable time reshaping it and then learning how to stain properly. . .

How thin are the walls of the bowls now? If you puff like a train, you can make pretty much any pipe get hot, but of course the thinner the bowl wall, the more prone the pipe is to getting "hot".

That cutty churchwarden is something totally different. I like it. I would like it more if it had a perfectly straight stem (a bent stem results in an almost inverted bowl when the thing is in your mouth). I can see that as a pipe sold with two stems, a 4" stem for a traditional look and the lo...

Before you start shortening the tenon, make sure it's really bottoming out in the mortise. It's hard to see, but in your last picture, it looks like there may be a pretty large radius in the corner between the tenon and the face of the stem. I can't tell if you have a chamfer on the outer edge of th...

What is the purpose of spot facing the shank cap/ring as on this Nanna Ivarsson Stanwell?

Here's a few of my latest. These pipes were sold on another forum to raise money for an online friend and his family. Lovat: http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l19/Fred_S/Pipes/2011/11-002/002111.jpg [ http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l19/Fred_S/Pipes/2011/11-002/002112.jpg http://i92.photobucket.co...

The problem with those calipers is that they're not direct reading (there is no scale on them). You have to adjust them to the thickness of the workpiece then in a secondary operation, you measure the calipers with some other instrument (like a scale or tape measure). The problem with measuring the ...

Is a permit of any sort required to receive shipments from Mimmo (Italy)? I suppose he includes all the correct documents to clear US Customs with relative ease?

Tyler wrote:

Nate wrote:Ok, to totally thread-jack Wayne, would you (who noted stem length) shorten the saddle portion or the shoulder (the part the same dia. as the shank) portion?

Using your terms, the saddle.

That would be the part you can't shorten on a finished stem of course.

I like.

If you're just using hole saws or forstner bits to leave a witness mark to work to, you can do it with a compass too.

See this link
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4340&p=36917&hilit=compass#p36917

Is that laser engraving on the bamboo shank?

That cutty is wicked cool Walle.

For non-native english speakers, "wicked cool" = really nice.

The pipe is $3200.00. The tobacco comes free with the pipe purchase.

Did you install ACAD 2011? I spend about 6 hours a day sitting in front of the tube using ACAD. I need to migrate from '07 to '11, but I HATE the new structure. Sooner or later I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and take the productivity hit and make the switch, but I'm not going to be happy...

Thanks all

. . .Fast forward 20 years, and I finally reached the point in my life where I could get my own copy of AutoCAD. Well, I installed it last week, and Jeez Louise, I am not impressed. . . Did you install ACAD 2011? I spend about 6 hours a day sitting in front of the tube using ACAD. I need to migrate...

I haven't posted a pipe here in a long time. Here's my latest - probably around the twentieth I've made. I like to have one hanging in my mouth while I'm in the shop, and I've been smoking a lot of G-H & S-G lakeland flakes lately, so I decided to make this little (5" long), very light pipe...

Thomas Tkach wrote:. . . I don't want to jump into the price range of established pipe-pouch sewers without building up a solid base.

OK. That made me laugh. Out loud.

And remember - you don't sell your pipe pouches to customers. You sell to "collectors".

Uhhm, the "milling vise" shown in the link you posted isn't a vise. It's simply a compound (meaning that it moves in more than one axis) table . With that table you'll still need a vise or some other clamping arrangement to hold the stummel. You'd be better served by something like this ht...

Another nod to shorter bits from me. I drill in a drill press, and short chamber bits mean I don't have to move the table up or down when switching from mortise/draft hole to chamber drilling, which means that all bits drill towards the same point of convergence.