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Because if one look at this pipe, and only measure it from the computer screen, the shank in this one actually is 2xB from my first drawing, and it looks good, so the slenderness seem to be important also, which may explain why I thought the 2xB dimension looked wierd. Maybe I make the shank to fat....

Thanks for the insight guys, much appreciated. This probably won't be helpful, but whenever I make a canadian I never even attempt to measure the height/length ratio. I just turn the shank as long as the block allows and then make a bowl to match. This is ussually what I end up doing more or less, b...

Hello guys. I havn't been active on here for a long time, I guess I ran out of questions that I couldn't figure out largely on my own. Anyhow, now I have a question, and it's about dimensions in the canadian family of pipes. You see, I know that I have read that the shank should be twice the hight o...

Thanks guys. I should tell you that I really can't take all the credit for everything on this pipe for good or bad, because last summer when I visited Mimmo I asked him to show me how he made bamboo pipes, so he turned the overall shape of the bowl, cut and fitted the bamboo and made the ebonite cap...

Hello guys, It's been a good while since I last posted on here for some reason, I hope you are all well. This is the latest pipe I have finished. This particular pipe is a small virgin pipe that Mimmo and I started last summer when I visited him to buy some briar, but I haven't gotten around to fini...

Hello everyone. A while back I finished this pipe set that a friend of my uncle ordered some months ago. He wanted one billiard for himself, and one that he will give as a birthday gift to an old employer who will visit Sweden this june. He wanted to make the gift a little more special than "ju...

Smoking pipes and making pipes. Oh, and old, beautiful, well made tools made to last.

Ah great, now I feel like a fool for not knowing that abbreviation.

Thanks again.

Thanks Premal, I at last feel like I have a vague grasp on things at least, much appreciated. But, TIAFO?

Hey guys. I have decided to start experimenting with bowl coatings, partially because I think my pipes rarely look really complete with the bare briar bowl, and partially because I like the idea of some extra protection in the bowl since I can't possibly know the smoking habbits of my customers. I h...

In my opinion it is definitely worth saving. It would make awesome knife handles. I've stabilized basically rotten white oak (lighter than balsa) and it works and looks great. Cool, did you send it away to have it stabilized or did you do it yourself somehow? And is stabilizing done before or after...

Yeah that's what I thought. As soon as I cut it open I saw that it wouldn't be good for rings or extensions or things of that nature (pattern wise), but I appreciate all kinds of wood working so I just wanted to see if there is any point in saving these pieces.

Hello everyone. :) Today I went into the woods to harvest an aspen burl that I saw last weekend while taking a walk. The tree is dead and it appears to have been for a while (it still stands though, and it seems to be a favourite for woodpeckers, judging from the holes all over the trunk). anyway, I...

Funny I should see this post today since I about two hours ago was about half an inch from jaming my finger into the running bandsaw. And I gotta say, that shit is scary as hell, and it sure made me stop for a second to think about what I was doing! Good thing Scottie remind us about these things, s...

I think it looks nice, but those walls must be mighty thin near the bottom of the bowl, right?

Good job!

/Albert

Btw, it might just be the pics, but I do not see the cumberland? Or am I starting to get blind on top of deaf (according to the wife). Well, you should'nt be to worried about your eyesight, at least not on account of my photography. ;) I'm looking to upgrade my lighting a bit in the near future, ca...

Well, I wanted to make it look elegant and somewhat "pointy", kinda like a ships prow (not that ship's prows are very elegant but anywho...), which is also the reason why the front of the bowl seen from the top has a kind of a rounded pointiness to it. After it's all said and done however,...

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Hello everyone.

This is a pipe I finished a few days ago. It has a cumberland stem and a light orange stain.

I think the pipe turned out pretty good, but I'd love to hear what you guys think as always.


/Albert

I think it is a very nice pipe, and I find it amazing that someone can become this good in just 17 pipes, I'm at 30-ish something and I would struggle to make this pipe this well.
However, I am not a huge fan of the smooth part, but that just comes down to personal preferance.

Nice work!